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Doug S. Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Guru Feb 21st, 2004 at 7:19am
Member Tom,
Picogroup In your classes and on the website, you talk about Ford Camshaft Position Sensor
synchronization. There are pictures of how it appears with the Fluke 97 (I believe) on the
Offline website. Do you have any pictures as it appears with the Picoscope and can you discuss this a little
for people that have never synchronized one? Thanks, Ziggee.

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Tom Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Roberts Reply #1 - Feb 21st, 2004 at 9:47am
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tor Here is how the CKP and CMP look:
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The crank signal is a 36 minus one tooth ring and the missing tooth is at 60 degrees BTDC, for a 6
cyl. The sensor is a floating ground type VRS, so be sure to stab the correct wire so the signal is
'right side up'. The signal should rise in the missing tooth region when you have it right. The center
of each tooth is 10 degrees. The signal crosses zero going negative as the center of a tooth
aligns. Don't be concerned that the signal 'floats' a bit above ground. This is normal because it's a
floater and we have the scope referenced to vehicle ground.

The Cam signal is a hall effect 180 degree dignal. It's high for one crank rotation and low for the
next.

We can set these up with the CMP rising or falling edge.

Here, we use the rising edge.
 Here we have added the degree markings. The rising edge of the cam signal should be at 26 ATDC
#1 so 180 degrees of cam rotation later it will fall at 26 ATDC #5.

The cam sensor can be installed 180 degrees out and the signal will look perfect and the PCM will
not know the difference but inject fuel at the wrong cylinder at the wrong time.

You can use compression #1 or #5 to set these up. Just be sure the CMP falls ATDC #5 and rises
ATDC #1. I rough them in by hand then do the fine adjustment with the scope, engine running. In
some applications, like the Windstar, rather than shedding blood to remove the #1 plug, I just use #5.
Keeping in mind that the CMP vane should be leaving the sensor instead of entering it as it would be
for #1 compression.

This procedure works for any EDIS 6 cyl with a hall effect cam sensor.

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Romain. Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization

Senior Reply #2 - Feb 21st, 2004 at 2:38pm
Member Hi Tom,
Picogroup
The above waves show the HALL switch type of CAM sensor in relation to the VRS CRANK
Offline sensor.
Any chance that you can show a relationship with the VRS CRANK sensor and the VRS CAM
sensor as used on some Fords, if you have one in your archives that is ?
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Tom Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Roberts Reply #3 - Feb 21st, 2004 at 4:43pm
Autonerdz OK Romain,
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The above is typical six cylinder sync. It's more difficult to be exact here, but we have some
tolerance.
 The above is an example from a 1.9 four cylinder. This one is not adjustable. Also, on the four cyl,
the missing tooth on the CKP is at 90 degrees BTDC.

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Romain. Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Senior Reply #4 - Feb 21st, 2004 at 8:00pm
Member Thanks Tom, I have not encountered one to use the PICO scope on, I did some reading and
Picogroup discovered that the PCM reads the signal where the wave is going negative to a point just below the
0 line.
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Tom Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Roberts Reply #5 - Feb 21st, 2004 at 8:31pm
Autonerdz Hi Romain,
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Picogroup
Carl contributed a couple more I thought were interesting.
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The above capture is a V8. The missing tooth area is at 50 degrees BTDC for the V8. We are still
using the 36 minus one CKP.
 This one is the V10. The CKP is a 40 minus one tooth CKP and the missing tooth is at 36 degrees
BTDC. So we'll count 9 degrees for a tooth and that puts this VRS CMP at about 26 ATDC. I don't
think these are adjustable either.

You'll be fine shooting for 26 degrees ATDC for either the Hall effect style or the VRS style CMP
when adjustment is possible.

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andyjl Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Freshman Reply #6 - Feb 7th, 2006 at 3:31pm
Member Hi everyone,
I was wondering if you can just use another scope channel on secondary ignition number one or
Offline number five instead of pulling a plug to confirm compression on one or five being that the computer
maintains spark firing order timed off the missing tooth on crank even without a cam signal present
at all God forbid I wouldnt want to do things the hard way!!!! I realize the timing would
I love YaBB float around some so it cant be used as a reference point for actually setting the sensor but it would
1G - SP1! be a quicker way of getting the up or down direction right on the cam sensor would it not???????

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Tom Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Roberts Reply #7 - Feb 7th, 2006 at 4:15pm
Autonerdz Absolutely! This procedure was written for two channel scope use. The advantage of a third
Administra channel allows you to see where the compression firing is so you know at a glance where the engine
tor is in its cycle:
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andyjl Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Freshman Member Reply #8 - Feb 8th, 2006 at 7:59am
hail the King.
Offline thanks never done it but was wondering and there you have it!!!!!also that uses multistrike
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Tom Roberts Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Autonerdz Reply #9 - Feb 8th, 2006 at 12:19pm
Administrator That's from a 2001 Windstar 3.8 IEDIS. It multistrikes at idle and low RPM.
Picogroup
Keep in mind though that you can't do this with many scopes. The sample rate has to be
Offline high enough to reliably detect the secondary KV at longer time bases, when multiple
channels are being used. The KV event may be only 10 millionths of a second
(microseconds) wide. If the samples are not close enough together you can't rely on
identifying the compression KV event.

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At this setting the PicoScope 3423 is sampling every 1.6 microseconds so it's not a
problem. We could put even more time on the screen, if we wanted.
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You should be able to accomplish something similar with your Modis using a 1ms screen
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Tom Roberts Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Autonerdz Reply #10 - Mar 8th, 2006 at 9:34am
Administrator More on hook up logistics when working with floating ground VR sensors:
Picogroup
Incorrect scope hook up can create problems with the
Offline vehicle or even cause a no start condition. Ford EDIS cam
sync is a great example. The CKP is a floater and the CMP
is either a hall effect or a non-floating VRS. The common
mistake is to hook a channel input and ground across the
CKP. That works fine if that is the only channel you intend
to use and you will get an accurate representation of the
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CKP amplitude. But that doesn't help you sync. You have to
use another channel on the CMP. But your scope is now
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grounded to something generating voltage ;-p If you use
another channel, weird things are going to happen. This is
because, on most scopes, the channels share that common
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The correct method is to reference all channels to vehicle
ground and back probe only one of the CKP wires with your
scope channel input. You must choose the correct wire so
your waveform is right side up to get your degree count
right. The other wire provides a pattern that is inverted
and will throw off your crank degree count. Hooking up this
way will allow you to use multiple channels with no
problems. However, it will make the CKP waveform reduced in
true peak to peak amplitude and it will appear to 'float'
above the ground line when the scope is DC coupled. Neither
of these issues is a problem if you are looking to sync the
CKP/CMP.

If you are looking to measure the CKP peak to peak volts,

however, this will not do. You will have to dedicate one
channel to this task and hook channel signal and ground
across the sensor to get this information. No other
channels should be deployed.

So, how you hook up depends on the information you want.

Non floating sensors like the EDIS VRS CMP have the signal
present on only one of the wires and display accurate peak
to peak results with the scope referenced to vehicle
ground. So, these do not require a separate hook up to get
this information.

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Danny Berry, Sr. Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Super Nerd Reply #11 - Sep 24th, 2007 at 8:46pm
Picogroup Hay Tom,
Offline This is cool for a ford. How about the same thing for a 1999 G.M 4.6 liter Northstar
Cadillac Engine for something different. Also do you have pico scope wave forms for the 4x
and 24x reference signals (4 ref high and 24x crnk that are sent to the pcm for ignition
control. Camshaft reference (ref. lo/cam high) sent to the pcm for fuel injection control, or
anything other functions associated with the ICM.

Elevation 840ft Thanks,

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Gender: Tom Roberts wrote on Feb 21st, 2004 at 9:47am:
Sure, Ziggee

Here is how the CKP and CMP look:

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The crank signal is a 36 minus one tooth ring and the missing tooth is at 60 degrees BTDC,
for a 6 cyl. The sensor is a floating ground type VRS, so be sure to stab the correct wire so
the signal is 'right side up'. The signal should rise in the missing tooth region when you have
it right. The center of each tooth is 10 degrees. The signal crosses zero going negative as
the center of a tooth aligns. Don't be concerned that the signal 'floats' a bit above
ground. This is normal because it's a floater and we have the scope referenced to vehicle
ground.

The Cam signal is a hall effect 180 degree dignal. It's high for one crank rotation and low
for the next.

We can set these up with the CMP rising or falling edge.

[img]

Here, we use the rising edge.

[img]

Here we have added the degree markings. The rising edge of the cam signal should be at 26
ATDC #1 so 180 degrees of cam rotation later it will fall at 26 ATDC #5.

The cam sensor can be installed 180 degrees out and the signal will look perfect and the
PCM will not know the difference but inject fuel at the wrong cylinder at the wrong time.

You can use compression #1 or #5 to set these up. Just be sure the CMP falls ATDC #5 and
 rises ATDC #1. I rough them in by hand then do the fine adjustment with the scope, engine
running. In some applications, like the Windstar, rather than shedding blood to remove the
#1 plug, I just use #5. Keeping in mind that the CMP vane should be leaving the sensor
instead of entering it as it would be for #1 compression.

This procedure works for any EDIS 6 cyl with a hall effect cam sensor.

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Autonerdz Reply #12 - Sep 24th, 2007 at 10:47pm
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I don't have much Northstar stuff but I'm sure someone does.
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twelch Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Freshman Member Reply #13 - Sep 25th, 2007 at 6:50am
Picogroup I just did a quick search of the iATN waveform library. There are captures of 99 4.6 Cadillac
cam/crank. The ones I saw were Modis but I didn't look for very long.
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Rick Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Hill Reply #14 - Sep 25th, 2007 at 8:09am
LSD Tom here is an ford 5.4 3 valve with variable cam timing. I haven't figured out what fords logic was in
Guid where they placed this one. Those with vct will have the number of signals equal to the number of cylinders
e on the bank plus one in one full revolution of the cam or 2 revolutions of the crank. The 2.0 four cylinder z
Pico tech will have a signal like this v8 . Four cylinders plus one equal to 5 signals. On the z tech the first wave
grou will fall at about 22 degrees atc for #1 and #4. The set with 3 waves will be at tdc compression for #1 and
p the set with 2 waves will be at tdc compression for #4. That seems to go right along with the other ford vrs
cam sensors being at 22 degrees atc but this v8 seems to not go along with that logic. The second wave in
the set of three is close. This cam is installed quite a bit advanced and the second wave in the set of three
might come out right when the cam is retarded to where the bottom timing is straight up. It's a sohc motor
and it's advanced I assume because they are using the cam as an egr in the retarded position and to move the
torque curve in the advanced position so it's kind of dual purpose.

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Re: Ford CMP vs. CKP synchronization
Reply #15 - Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:14am
Hi Danny

I have what you need I had the very vehicle in for quick service customer wait

so did some captures for you please hold on will I upload the for you

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Autonerdz Reply #16 - Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:38am
That's interesting, Rick. VCT is different but your sync is not at all like the Z-
Tech. Here is an example of one in an Escort. The first cam pulse is synced to about
20 deg ATDC.
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