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Subject:Re: Update Re: Engine died, March 31 update and maybe ecu smoking gun?
From:Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Date:Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:43:00 -0700

Right on Alistair. Nice to know an ECU can be saved like that!

Kind of late to ask but when soldering, did you use a heat sink on the
leg of that transistor?

At the group: is use of a heat sink even needed on a transistor of
that size when soldering it?

Neil.

On 3/31/20, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> It worked!

>> On Mar 31, 2020, at 5:04 PM, vw_van_fan_Mark <madvws@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> No, bottom left is pin 25.
>> Pin 25 is the ignition coil trigger from it's driver transistor.
>> That check mark for the middle pin of the transistor appears to show that
>> your bad solder joint is for the pin 25 signal as hoped.
>>

-- 
Neil n

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