The Caterpillar Electronic Technician
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Connections for the Communication Adapter II and the Caterpillar Electronic Technician The following components are needed in order to use the Communication Adapter II and the Cat ® Electronic Technician (Cat ET Service Tool). Cat ET Service Tool is required to determine diagnostic codes are that are listed. (6) Cable (7) 171-4400 Communication Adapter II (8) Service diagnostic cable (9) Current version of Cat ET software and an IBM® compatible personal computer | |
The Cat ET is a software program that is used as a service tool in order to access data. The service technician can use this service tool in order to perform maintenance on the machine. Some of the options that are available with the Cat ET are listed below.
- View 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)
- Print reports
Note: The ECM is programmed (flashed) with the "WINflash" software program. Refer to Testing and Adjusting, RENR7902, "Electronic Control Module (Generator Set) - Flash Program" for information to flash the ECM.
The following list contains some of the functionality of Cat ET.
- ECM system failures are displayed
- Status of most of the inputs and the outputs are displayed
- ECM settings are displayed
- Real-time display for status of the input and output parameters
- Display the clock hour of the internal diagnostic clock
- Display the number of occurrences and the clock hour of the first occurrence of each logged diagnostic code
- Display the number of occurrences and the clock hour of the last occurrence of each logged diagnostic code
- Display the definition for each logged diagnostic code and each event
- Load new flash software
Refer to Troubleshooting, RENR7902, "Diagnostic Trouble Code List" for the list of diagnostic codes for the ECM.
- Active diagnostic codes
- Logged diagnostic codes
An indicator for logged events is provided. The indicator allows the service technician to track the event codes that are intermittent. The data for the logged event will include the following information:
- An event identifier
- 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 Caterpillar Electronic Technician
The status groups are lists of ECM parameters. The status of the parameters is shown in real time.