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Weibull
Apr 04, 2012Explorer
NewsW wrote:
I am busy on a rather urgent project and am absent for a bit.
Need everyone who knows of a failure to post whether there was a simultaneous / prior failure involving injectors ore anything electrical (short, dielectric).
Just realized that the injectors are pushing high voltage DC and the current driving them is quite substantial if there is a short to ground --- and paired with a bad ground path (Ford is famous for that) that could do it.)
Electrical current from the injector traveling along the fuel lines, via the common rail, back to the pump can cause a electrically induced fault (corrosion / electrolysis / etc.) in the pump.
We are dealing with 100+V DC... not small stuff.
This is interesting, I will look into this with the next failed units sent to us.
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