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Caterpillar Electronic Technician (Cat ET)
Caterpillar Electronic Technician (Cat ET) is a software program that is used in order to access data. The service technician can use Cat ET in order to perform maintenance on the machine. Some of the options that are available with Cat ET are listed below:
- Diagnosis of Problems.
- Viewing of Diagnostic Codes.
- Viewing Active Event Codes and Logged Event Codes.
- View the Status of Parameters.
- Clear Active Diagnostic Codes and Clear Logged Diagnostic Codes.
- Program the ECM (Flash). Programming is done with the WinFlash program. Refer to Testing and Adjusting, "Electronic Control Module (ECM) - Flash Program".
Refer to Troubleshooting, "Using Caterpillar Electronic Technician to Determine Diagnostic Codes". Diagnostic information is accessed with the following drop-down menus:
- Active Diagnostic Codes.
- Logged Diagnostic Codes.
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An active event indication shall be provided for events that are currently flagged as a system problem. Information for an active event shall include an event identifier (EID) and a text description of the problem.
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A logged event indicator is provided in order to keep track of intermittent events or events that reoccur. The data for the logged event shall include the following information:
- Event Identifier (EID).
- Text description of the problem.
- Number of occurrences of the problem.
- Time stamp that shows the time that the problem first occurred.
- Time stamp that shows the time that the problem most recently occurred.
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