Has the wiring that was replied worked out i.e.
top view left to right: pink, brown/white, black/red ???
What happens if b/w and b/r are swapped? Would that fry the sensor?
Help please.
Thanks -- Siggi
PS - Have similar issue on 91 Fleetwood
"JimS" wrote:
>I am working on a 1990 Cadillac DeVille 4.5 liter.
>
>Inside the distributor there is a Cam Position Sensor,
>aka Hall-Effect sensor. I need to know how to wire
>this sensor.
>
>The sensor has three terminals. It seems that you
>are not supposed to need to know how to wire this
>sensor. There should be three wires coming out of
>a harness and going to a connector. That connector
>should fit on the sensor in only one way; no problem
>in theory.
>
>When I started working on this car, there was no
>connector, just three wires, each with its own
>single connector.
>
>Now, which wire goes to which terminal on the sensor?
>
>The sensor has three terminals. The All-Data circuit
>diagram shows three wires:
> Pink = 12V when ignition on
> Brown/white = signal
> Black/red = ground
>
>I have such wires with these colors.
>
>At the parts counter at a Dealer, I saw a harness.
>The connector had just two wires attached. The
>rightmost was Black/red, and the middle was Brown/white.
>The leftmost wire was NOT connected!!! This does
>not seem right. It is physically impossible for a
>Hall-effect sensor to work without some input voltage
>(pink wire). It also contradicts the three-wire
>arrangement in the circuit diagram. None of the
>three terminals are connected to case ground, so
>one cannot call it a two-wire sensor by eliminating
>the ground wire.
>
>(I am call the "right" terminal, the one on MY right
>as I face the sensor.)
>
>Does anyone have knowledge of which wire goes to which
>terminal?
>
>Jim S.
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