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Reply With QuoteI know this is probably a silly question but have you read the manual that came with your multimeter? The manual that came with my cheapy starts with 5 pages of safety advice and then explains how measure voltage, resistance ect.
I've had a carnetix-p1900 running my carputer setup for a while (using a gateway laptop as my carputer)....BUT it (the laptop) decides it only wants to power on sometimes? so then sometimes I have to manually press the power on button and manually go to hibernate it (manually pressing the power button is a pain in the *** cuz my carputer is under my passenger side seat). I'm confused whether I have the ACPI soldered to the wrong connections or what because I originally had it soldered to one part of the power controller board thing (w/ the power button on it) and it worked fine for a few weeks. Then it stopped working and so I tested it with a few other areas on the power controller board and found another place to solder it to that would allow it to power on through the carnetix and then last week it stopped working again......sooo confused....so i'm wondering...is there any way for me to simulate the pulse that is sent through the ACPI relay of the carnetix so I can test whether or not it will work at my desk as opposed to having to solder stuff, bring it to my car, plug it all in, turn on my car, see if it works? Like... can I just stick a AA battery between the two wires that are to be connected to the ACPI relay to test it? please help!
Oh...and on a side note, I bought a multimeter a while back to test for the connections haha but I honestly don't have a clue what i'm doing with the multimeter...it doesn't have a *beep* function (to test for the correct connections as w3bma5ter suggested) so I just tried testing connections on different settings...One thing I found that works is at a certain setting, if i touch both the needles to the (what i think is correct) metal connections on the power controller...the number jumps down to 0? I dunno what i'm testing for though heh,...someone please help!
I know this is probably a silly question but have you read the manual that came with your multimeter? The manual that came with my cheapy starts with 5 pages of safety advice and then explains how measure voltage, resistance ect.
hey, yea i read the manual but I still dont know what kind of stuff (voltage/current/etc) is supposed to be running through the 2 points to solder. butttt it doesn't really matter anyway because I accidentally broke the power controller board while i was soldering stuff onto it so I straight up ripped it outta the laptop and found the correct points on the laptop itself and soldered the ACPI relay directly to the laptop itself. It's been running great all day aside from one startup wherein the laptop turned on but was frozen in streetdeck...and now I'm trying to solve that problem
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