CONNECTOR AS 1488345 - Caterpillar

The Cat Electronic Technician (ET)
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Connections for the Communication Adapter II and the Electronic Technician (ET)
The components that are needed in order to use the Communication Adapter II and the Cat Electronic Technician are listed below:
(1) 275-5120 Communication Adapter II Group
(2) Current version of Cat Electronic Technician software and an IBM-COMPATIBLE personal computer The Cat Electronic Technician (ET) is a software program that is used to access data. The service technician can use the ET in order to perform maintenance on the machine. Some of the options that are available with the Cat Electronic Technician are listed below:
View diagnostic codes. See Troubleshooting, "Using the Cat Electronic Technician to Determine Diagnostic Codes".
Viewing active event codes and logged event codes
View the status of parameters.
Clear active diagnostic codes and clear logged diagnostic codes
Perform calibration of machine systems.
Program the ECM (Flash). The "WINflash" program is used to flash the software. See Testing and Adjusting, "Electronic Control Module (ECM) - Flash Program".
Print reports.The following list contains some of the diagnostic functions and programming functions that are performed by the service tools.
The failures of the ECM system are displayed.
The status of most of the inputs and the outputs are displayed.
The settings for the ECM are displayed.
Display the status of the input and output parameters in real time.
Display the clock hour of the internal diagnostic clock.
The number of occurrences and the clock hour of the first occurrence and the last occurrence is displayed for each logged diagnostic code.
The definition for each logged diagnostic code and each event is displayed.
Load new FLASH software.See Troubleshooting, "Diagnostic Code List" for the list of diagnostic codes for the ECM.
Active diagnostic codes
Logged diagnostic codesEvent Codes
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Typical ET Logged Event Codes Screen
Logged Event CodesAn indicator for logged events is provided. The indicator allows the service technician to track event codes that are intermittent. The data for the logged event will include the following information:
An event identifier (EID)
A text description of the problem
The number of occurrences of the problem
A time stamp will display the first occurrence of the problem.
A time stamp will display the last occurrence of the problem.Status Groups For The Electronic Technician
The Status groups are lists of machine parameters. The status of the parameters is shown in real time.
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Typical ET Status Screen