RE: free CAN troubleshooting sheet

"John Dammeyer" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.bus.can
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Igor,
I'd try an squeeze in a couple of scope photos or sketches that show what
the bus looks like with a reminder that CAN is a 2 wire + ground system.  
I watched someone try and diagnose an RS485 system the other day (which can
operate without the ground) but they put the scope ground on one of the
RS485 lines and the probe on the other.   For some reason the signals looked
good but the PLC wasn't receiving the messages.  
When it was my turn the first thing I did was move the scope leads around so
the ground was where it should be and the two scope probes were on the RS485
+/- leads.  Now we suddenly saw that the PLC wasn't configured for
bi-directional RS485 (2 wire) and so stayed in transmit drive mode.
What I'm trying to say is there is a world of diagnostic information
available from just a quick peak at the scope on the bus.
John Dammeyer
 
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Igor Ramos
Sent: August-05-14 2:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CANLIST] free CAN troubleshooting sheet
 
I'm new to the list as well. I'm the author of the CAN troubleshooting sheet
below. I created based on my 10+ years of experience designing CAN systems.
Even though there's just so much content you can put in one sheet, those are
my typical steps when troubleshooting a CAN system.  
 
What steps/instructions would you add or remove from that sheet?
 
Regards,
Igor Ramos
CANbusAcademy.com
 
 
On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:38 PM, Al Thomason <[email protected]> wrote:



Um.  I am new to this list, but I hope the following is not typical - I
found it to be totally lacking  content and really just a way to harvest
Email addresses.
 
-al-
 
 
 
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Igor Ramos
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 8:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CANLIST] free CAN troubleshooting sheet
 
Check out this CAN Troubleshooting Quick Reference sheet. It contains some
key test procedures to troubleshoot a CAN bus using a multimeter. Let me
know if you like it.
 
 <http://canbusacademy.com/can-bus-troubleshooting-pdf-sheet/>
http://canbusacademy.com/can-bus-troubleshooting-pdf-sheet/
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