Tag: CAN bus
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How We Convinced a Transmission It Was in a Running Vehicle
Here’s a fun one. A transmission controller sitting on a test bench is a suspicious thing. It won’t shift the way it does in a real vehicle unless it’s convinced it is in a real vehicle — engine running, sensors live, the whole electrical world around it behaving normally. Get any of that wrong and… Read more
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Your Test Stand Can’t Hear the ECU: Integrating CAN Bus Data into Automated Testing
Here’s a scene that plays out in a lot of test labs. The test stand itself works fine — thermocouples, pressure transducers, flow meters, all logging cleanly. But the unit under test isn’t just a mechanical device anymore. It has a controller on board, and the most interesting numbers — commanded operating point, internal temperatures,… Read more
