Common Rail Pressure Sensor
Common Rail Pressure Sensor
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General description
The common rail pressure sensor is located on the fuel rail. Its
function is to monitor the fuel pressure in the common rail.
Sensor is used by the ECM as a part of the calculation for the % duty
cycle applied to the Fuel Pressure Control Valve and Fuel Quantity
Control Valve.
It’s a three-wire sensor: +5V powered from the ECM, output signal and
ground. Output range is 0.5 ÷ 4.5V for Bosch, Delphi and Siemens rail
pressure sensors and 1.0 ÷ 4.2V - for the Denso sensors.
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Fig. 1 shows a typical common rail pressure sensor.
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• Possible failures in the common rail pressure sensor:
- Chaotic output signal
Chaotic output signal is, when the voltage signal changes randomly,
drops to zero and disappears.
This usually happens when an ine cient common rail pressure
sensor is present. In this case the sensor must be replaced.
- Missing of signal voltage
Check for a short circuit to the positive terminal of the car battery.
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