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Re: 'Most' Onoard Computer Sensors Use 5-volt Reference--Why 5?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 11/13/2003

Early appication were either 2v under battery or 4v under battery - our very early Ford ECUs included.

If you look up a manual for specific voltage regulators, you get 12v, 10v, 8v and 5v. I know some early Mazda systems that were 10v.

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