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Circuit to drive a fuel injectors with NE555

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milkoni

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Hi all,
I've decided to build a device for testing and cleaning a car fuel injectors (petrol).
I've made a simple circuit to manage a four injectors.
My question is - Is this circuit will work properly?
 

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Look okay, except you have Q2 upside down.
The emitter should be the output and the collector goes to ground.

But note that at such slow speed, the 555 can likely drive the MOSFET gates directly without the transistor driver.
If you want to try that, remove R3 and connect R4 directly to the gates.
 
Thank you for advise!
You mean to change the circuit like this:
 

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Hi Milkoni,

A pretty neat design.:cool:

Just a general observation: when testing injectors, ignition systems etc, it is best to be able to vary the on (dwell) period and the frequency. I think this can be done with a single 555 chip.

Even though a switching element (BJT, IGT, MOSFET) may be switching at a relatively low frequency, it is still important to minimize the switching element turn on and turn off time to minimize stress of the switching element.

In addition to Cruts' observations, here are a few from me.:)

(1) The BC548/BC558 transistors are not really up to the job. BC337/BC327 high conductance, higher current transistors would be more suitable. The effective gate capacitance of a single MOSFET is huge so four in parallel amount to quite a capacitance.
(2) It would be better to have an independent gate shaping resistor for each NMOSFET. I would recommend 22 ohms.
(3) R4 is a tough high. I would recommend 47 Ohms.
(4) The standard 555 timer needs at least 220nF ceramic capacitors directly across its supply pins.
(5) The NMOSFETs also need decoupling. I would recommend a 1000uF low frequency decoupling capacitor across the supply line and 220uF ceramic capacitors physically close to each NMOSFET

By the way, I have not looked at the deign of the 555 part of the circuit, but my impression is that it could be simplified.

Please do not think that I am criticizing your design as I said it is pretty neat, well drawn and well presented.:)

spec
 
Thank you for advise!
You mean to change the circuit like this:
That is what Cruts advised, but can I just say to connect a separate 47R resistor to each MOSFET gate. 10K Ohms is way too high, especially for a single resistor.

spec
 
Hi Spec!

Like always wise and perfect advise thanks!
I think that I realized your recommendations right:
 

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Hi Spec!

Like always wise and perfect advise thanks!
I think that I realized your recommendations right:
Wow- thanks for your kind words.

Yes, your schematic is what I had in mind, but I did not make it clear about the 220nF capacitors.

The 220nF capacitors should connect to the 12V power line physically connected to each injector rather than to the drain of the NMOSFET

The transistors connections still have the problem that Cruts pointed out in post #2.

spec
 
Hi again Milkoni,

Please do not think that I am criticizing your work, but below is how I suggest that your schematic should look (I have not analyzed the the 555 timer part). The red dots indicate changes.

You may think it odd that I have rearranged the ground (0V) connection on the schematic, but this is intended to reflect the physical layout to a degree.

While on the subject of physical layout, it would be wise to have a two star point arrangement, one star point for ground (0V) and one star point for 12V.

spec

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It's Ok Spec - there is no problem.
My idea was to publish my circuit here, to get the best advises from specialists like you Spec, Curt, Mike and others like this!
I would like to make a proper circuit, which will work properly with your advises.
So, thank you for your proposals!
I've reworked the circuit as you recommend.
Now I hope everything is fine!
But I've decided to add a 4 push on/push off buttons to switch on/off each injector to my schematics.
Something like this:
 

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Hi all,
I've decided to build a device for testing and cleaning a car fuel injectors (petrol).
I've made a simple circuit to manage a four injectors.
My question is - Is this circuit will work properly?
I cannot comment on the design as others here know FAR more than me, but I do have a question for you. If this is just for cleaning and testing injectors, why not just use a battery and momentary switch? When I have to test an injector I just hook it up to a fixture that I put WD40 into, add some pressure, and put the juice to the injector and look at the spray pattern. Not criticizing just wondering.
Thank you
Tom
 
I cannot comment on the design as others here know FAR more than me, but I do have a question for you. If this is just for cleaning and testing injectors, why not just use a battery and momentary switch? When I have to test an injector I just hook it up to a fixture that I put WD40 into, add some pressure, and put the juice to the injector and look at the spray pattern. Not criticizing just wondering.
Thank you
Tom
Hi TS,

The spray pattern of an injector is vital, as you imply. Another important characteristic is cut off- does the injector seal completely when de-energized.

But the dynamics of an injector also need to be tested so you need to exercise the injectors at high speed.

Also, if you are cleaning an injector with a suitable solvent, the injector needs to be exercised for quite a while and it would be rather tiresome to have to keep switching the injector on and off with a switch.:)

spec
 
Hi TS,

The spray pattern of an injector is vital, as you imply. Another important characteristic is cut off- does the injector seal completely when de-energized.

But the dynamics of an injector also need to be tested so you need to exercise the injectors at high speed.

Also, if you are cleaning an injector with a suitable solvent, the injector needs to be exercised for quite a while and it would be rather tiresome to have to keep switching the injector on and off with a switch.:)

spec
Thank you.
Tom
 
May be this will work properly. I will add a on/off switch to each injector.
 

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I still can't understand why people don't use one of the many injector driver chips that are available along with a 555 to do this. Over time there have been many questions asked about doing this same thing. But when using high value mosfets in a "test" fixture, is that really going to tell you what will happen in a real world environment? Where using a real injector driver should be closer to real world, and in the end faster and easier.
 
I still can't understand why people don't use one of the many injector driver chips that are available along with a 555 to do this. Over time there have been many questions asked about doing this same thing. But when using high value mosfets in a "test" fixture, is that really going to tell you what will happen in a real world environment? Where using a real injector driver should be closer to real world, and in the end faster and easier.
Hmm, interesting observation.

Can you buy injector drivers, or were you thinking of using an engine management system (EMS) from an automobile?

spec
 
Thanks for information "SB"!
I can't use this chip, because I can't find it here in Bulgaria. Otherwise, if I buy it by the net, will be so expensive to me.

I heed help for a circuit, that I would like to use for switching injectors on/off.
I attach the two circuits with simulations. First circuit works fine. In second, I'm adding a relay, but it doesn't working properly in simulation.
I'm using a 5V relay model JQC-3F-1C-5VDC.
Coil voltage: 5 VDC
Coil resistance: 69 Ohms
Pickup voltage: 3.75 VDC
Release voltage: 0=5 VDC
Coil power consumption: 0.36 W
Operate tome: 10 ms
Release time: 5 ms
 

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Perhaps this circuit (which I designed for another forum member and has been built) would help?
As drawn the circuit needs negative-going ~ 12V pulses to trigger it. For each pulse, the injector initially draws high-current during a 'fire' period, then a lower-current during a 'hold' period. Both periods are adjustable with potentiometers.
What are the inductance and resistance values of the injectors you have?
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Thank you Alec for your circuit.
My petrol injectors are with 14.5 Ohm resistance (high impedance). I don't know their value of inductance.
I will use my circuit to build a cleaning machine for injectors.
I've added a little circuit to switch On and Off injector. Because I'll clean 4 injectors simultaneously, and sometime the cleaning process for some injector have to be longer than others.
Open time is adjustable from about 3.2 ms to 50 ms.
Close time - 13 ms to 28 ms.
I'm attaching my circuit.
I've tested it on experimental board and it works pretty good. Soon I'll try make a video.
Thanks again for advises and collaboration to Spec!!!
 

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