The great thing about buying the Ford diagnostic software license is that you don’t have to wait for anything to be shipped. (Ford's don't usually take a long time to flash, but some other Mfrs take hours and you have to have a big buck charger).If you have purchased the Ford IDS VCM 3, then you need to purchase the one-year software Ford license as well (provided it was not already included in your current package). I'm sure you guys will figure out new uses for this power, I was even thinking it might be clean enough for backup while doing a long programming session. There's several Youtube videos on this if you search, 'repurposing a pc power supply'. From there, the yellow wires are all 12v, the orange wires are 3.3v, and the red wires are 5v. There's a bunch of wires in the harnesses from the power supply, you have to ground the (only) green wire to the black wire (it seems any of the black wires work) to get the PS to 'turn on'. Hey, I wonder if that will drive a PCM? Well, it puts out 11.6vdc actual and the 6.0 PCM I have on my desk is completely happy with that. Seeing the power supplies I was curious what they put out, guess what, the label shows: and DC. I was surprised to see so many 'in-range' default values:Ī comment on a desktop PCM setup: I was trashing a couple of old PC towers and for security I removed the hard drives. When I go to Datalogger I saw some suprises, most of the PIDS showed zeros, but there's the ones that showed valid defaults. It's not surprising that I'm showing 29 continuous DTCs and a reflash available, and when I go to Network test things got ugly. I am using it wired 'cause I don't like wireless connections. It was a cinch to set up, pretty much automatic. I've been using a VCM1 all along so this is my first venture into VCM2 land. Both the 46 pin engine connector (center PCM) and the 30 pin TCM connector (front PCM) are disconnected. Nothing else is connected to the 46 pin body connector. I used the rear PCM connector (46 pin) connected to the OBD2 connector via CAN bus, 3 powers, 3 grounds, and FEPS pin 39 (Flash Eprom signal). It was easy to wire, though, I salvaged an OBD2 dash connector from the junkyard from a 2006 F150 that was punched (free!) which already had the right colored wires in the right holes with some left over.

I'm not going to put up pictures (yet, if ever) 'cause it's really fugly with wires hanging out all over, an OBD2 connector, and a lawn tractor battery powering it. I sold a few IDS setups to a customer and I want to be able to set them up, register them, and test them without sitting in a truck. Thanks to FordRacer, I now have a test 6.0 PCM sitting on my desk I can connect the IDS to, as he supplied me with the needed 46 way PCM connectors, and I already had a known good PCM sitting in my junk.

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