The customer was using a Low Side Digital Output (DPO) from the ECU to trigger a Kaizen Relay. The ECU and Kaizen Relay worked great when the car was on and running, no issues to report. When the customer would go to turn the car and subsequently the ECU off, the Kaizen Relay would suddenly Turn ON... Oh no! Read this blog post to find the fix!
First of all this Blog Post is for the enthusiast developers out there spending weeks and months reverse engineering a CAN bus system. I see this all the time: an enthusiast will ask some developer to come up with a specific use...
At the end you finish the project and the customer is happy but it was way more than $100 worth of work and you chalk it up to being a hobby so it’s OK.
Sound familiar? Two things you can do to start moving the needle toward making money with your CAN abilities.