• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Broken Antenna Ring--gheto antenna danger?

T

techienate

Husqvarna
A Class
So a day before leaving for a cross country road trip, like a moron, I broke the connection where the antenna wire connects to the ignition. Would it work to create a loop of wire that I dangle around my key that I would solder into the broken wire? Basically, I'd be creating my own antenna that bypasses the ignition assembly. Is there any possibility of damaging the ECU by doing this?

Any thoughts, anyone? (I'll be contacting my nearest dealer when it opens tomorrow morning, but who knows how long it will take to get the part.)
 
techienate said:
So a day before leaving for a cross country road trip, like a moron, I broke the connection where the antenna wire connects to the ignition. Would it work to create a loop of wire that I dangle around my key that I would solder into the broken wire? Basically, I'd be creating my own antenna that bypasses the ignition assembly. Is there any possibility of damaging the ECU by doing this?

Any thoughts, anyone? (I'll be contacting my nearest dealer when it opens tomorrow morning, but who knows how long it will take to get the part.)
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I believe a Honda "Hiss" antenna works, you have to remove the circuitry and just use the antenna. No ill effects reported from doing this. Others here may provide first hand experience with theirs.
 
Oops, didn't see the thread in time.
Yo, used the antenna off a Honda HISS (but I'm almost certain that ANY antenna ring will do the job of a functioning bypass).
Things start here http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/pottering-around.39580/page-4 (post #77 onwards, just flick through the thread).

There's no possibility of ECU damage or such, only a possible non-function resulting in continued EWS-errors on the dash. Required parts details are in the thread.
 
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