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at your fingertips
• Cummins has developed a device which allows engine diagnostic checks to be made using a hand-held Palm computer.
The QuickCheck unit snaps onto the Palm computer and is plugged into the truck's standard diagnostic connector (on the engine or dashboard) to give a real-time display of engine parameters such as engine speed and load, fuel flow and fluid temperatures.
It car also display fault codes or trip data such as fuel use, idle hours and distance covered.
The Palm unit can record this information for an entire fleet, and can transfer it into a desktop computer.
QuickCheck costs £225; an appropriate Palm device (a Palm Plot or Palm Ill Series) costs from around £120.
The system is compatible with any Cummins engine from the first full-authority L10 Celect engines to the present Euro-3 models, and with any other electronically controlled engine using the SAE J1587 protocol.