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Re: Electrical basics
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 3/24/2004 1 Reply

Mauro,

I agree that a resistor can be used to substitute for a solenoid in simple tests. Example, if you have a "smart" output driver (transistor) in the ECU that would sense if there is no load on it's output, the resistor would work as a substitute.

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