The MegaSquirt Project has experienced explosive growth other the years, with hundreds of new MS installations occurring every week - a phenomenal success! MegaSquirt has been successfully used in all aspects of Internal Combustion engine applications including R&D, Industry, Race, and Research. The MS project has transformed itself from a simple R&D project into a full-featured mature engine control system. To reflect this the support structure has also changed to meet the needs of MegaSquirt Users.
Moving forward, the R&D forums for MegaSquirt project are in a read-only mode - no new forum posts are accepted.
However the forums will remain available for view, they still contain a wealth of information on how MegaSquirt works, how it is installed and used. Feel free to search the forums for information, facts, and overview. While the R&D forum traffic has slowed in recent years, this is not at all a reflection of Megasquirt users, which continue to grow year after year. What has changed is that the method of MegaSquirt support today has rapidly moved to Facebook, this is where the vast majority of interaction is happening now. For those not on Facebook the msextra forums is another place for product support. Finally, for product selection assistance, all of the MegaSquirt vendors are there to help you select a system, along with all of the required pieces to make it complete.
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My fuel Pump went up in smoke yesterday (literally). I replaced it with a new pump today. The problem now is that when I am not getting any power to the fuel pump. The stimulator fuel pump LED lights up when the MS is connected. I replaced the fuse and relay on the relay board with no help. I have to assume that something is damaged the relay board. Any idea what could have gone wrong? This fuel pump and relay board have been working for many years.
I checked the voltage with the fuel pump relay removed (the center relay - K2). These voltage numbers I got directly off the relay board.
30 and 86 have 12v when the ignition is on and the engine is not running.
87 is a ground
87a is nothing
85 has aprox 0.1v when the ignition is on and the engine is not running
85 has aprox 1.0v when the engine is cranking.
I am not an electrical engineer so I don't know if this is right or not. Can someone let me know if they are right or what they should be.
I did some more testing and found that. I made a mistke earlier, I do not get a ground on 87. When the fuel pump is supposed to run I get a ground on 85. 86 and 30 are +12v when the key is on. I get +12v across 85 and 86 when the fuel pump is supposed to be running. That seems to me like it should work. When I take a ground wire and connect it to to the back of the relay board on the post for 85 the fuel pump runs. Is it possible that the ground coming from the MS is not strong enough?