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DSL1 ECU
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REFERENCE MANUAL
Baldur Gíslason

November 28, 2016

Contents

1 Introduction 3
2 Wiring 4
2.1 Pin-outs and description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1.1 Pin numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1.2 Connector A pin-out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1.3 Connector B pin-out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2 Wiring diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3 Wiring guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3.1 Grounding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3.2 12V feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3.3 Fuel shut-o solenoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3.4 Glow plugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3.5 Engine speed sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3.6 Injection pump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3.7 Pedal position sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.3.8 Programmable outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.4 Useful notes about the factory OM606 wiring harness . . . . 10
3 Software conguration 12
3.1 Theory of operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2.1 Engine speed sensor calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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3.2.2 Pedal position sensor calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.2.3 Rack position calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3 Extended features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.3.1 Cruise control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.3.2 Speedometer output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.4 Performing rmware upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A 1999 OM606 factory wiring diagram 19

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 1. Introduction

1 Introduction

DSL1 is an engine management system for engines equipped with Bosch

M-type EDC diesel injection pumps, such as Mercedes-Benz OM605/OM606.
To be able to run an engine, apart from the injection pump itself, two
sensors are required. A throttle pedal position sensor and an engine speed
sensor. Most applications will also use a manifold pressure sensor (MAP
sensor) and if glow plug or fan control is required, then an engine coolant
temperature sensor must be tted. All of those sensors come standard on
the OM605/606 turbo engines.

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2 Wiring

2.1 Pin-outs and description

2.1.1 Pin numbering

(a) Connector B (b) Connector A

Figure 2.1: Connectors on the back of the controller and their pin
numbering.

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2.1.2 Connector A pin-out

Pin I/O Function Note
1 OUT 5V supply for pedal 200mA max
position sensor
2 IN Analog 0 - Pedal position 100kΩ pull-down
sensor primary
3 IN Analog 1 - Pedal position 22kΩ pull-up
sensor secondary
4 OUT Ground return for pedal
position sensor
5 IN Analog 4 0-5V 22kΩ pull-up
6 IN Analog 5 0-5V 22kΩ pull-up
7 IO CAN high 120Ω termination on board
8 IO CAN low 120Ω termination on board
9 OUT Output 1 Low-side switch, 3A max,
1kΩ pull-up to 12V
10 OUT Output 2 Low-side switch, 3A max
11 IN Power ground
12 IN Power ground
13 OUT 5V supply for sensors 200mA max
14 IN Analog 2 - Coolant 3kΩ pull-up
temperature sensor
15 IN Analog 3 - MAP sensor 33kΩ pull-up
0-5V
16 OUT Ground return for sensors
17 IN Analog 6 0-5V 33kΩ pull-up
18 IO Digital IO 0, 0-5V
19 IN Engine speed input VR or 2.2kΩ pull-up
logic level
20 IN Vehicle speed input VR or 2.2kΩ pull-up
logic level
21 OUT Output 4 Low-side switch, 3A max
22 OUT Output 3 Low-side switch, 3A max
23 IN Switched +12V supply
24 IN Switched +12V supply

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2.1.3 Connector B pin-out

Pin I/O Function Note
1 OUT Rack solenoid IP brown/white wire -
negative brown/white wires in OEM loom
2 OUT Rack solenoid IP brown/white wire -
negative brown/white wires in OEM loom
3 IN Rack position IP green wire - white wire in OEM
reference coil loom
4 IN Rack position IP black wire - yellow wire in OEM
(actual value) coil loom
5 OUT Rack solenoid IP brown wire - red/blue in OEM
positive loom
6 OUT Rack solenoid IP brown wire - red/blue in OEM
positive loom
7 OUT Sensor ground Shield if present
return
8 OUT Sensor ground IP red wire - red in OEM loom
return

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2.2 Wiring diagram

Figure 2.2: Typical basic wiring, not shown is the injection pump.

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2.3 Wiring guidelines

2.3.1 Grounding
The controller should be connected to the battery negative terminal or
another reliable grounding point by a pair of 1.5 mm2 wires or a single
6 mm2 wire joined to smaller wires near the connector. An improper ground
connection will cause electrical noise and possibly faults with controller
operation. If utilising factory Mercedes wiring, joining all of the supply
ground wires for the Bosch ECU should suce.

2.3.2 12V feed

The preferred method of feeding the controller is to keep the wiring from
the battery positive terminal to the controller as short as possible to limit
electrical noise and voltage drop. This is best done by routing a wire
directly from the controller to the battery, with a 20A fuse and relay in
line. If using factory Mercedes wiring, using factory tted switched 12V
feed via main relay should suce but an extra relay must be tted to
switch the main relay negative.

2.3.3 Fuel shut-o solenoid

If your engine has a fuel shut o solenoid tted (the little black box bolted
to the inlet on the injection pump), connect that to 12V from the ignition
switch or pin 6 of connector B on the ECU. The fuel temperature sensor
is not utilised.
Pin Wire colour Function Where connected
1 brown/white FTS ground not connected
2 brown solenoid ground any power ground
3 yellow/black solenoid power switched 12V source
4 blue/white FTS signal not connected
Figure 2.3: Fuel shut o solenoid wiring

2.3.4 Glow plugs

The ECU can control a glow plug relay, but the factory tted OM605/OM606
relay is not suitable as it speaks an unknown serial protocol. The easiest
solution is to take the Mercedes glow relay, which has a small three pin
connector on one edge with two wires coming out of it, a brown ground
wire and a white control signal wire, and cut around the perimeter through
the sealant and then pry the lid o. Once lid is removed, a single wire
is soldered from the middle relay coil terminal to the ground pin on the
connector. Now the brown wire coming out of the small connector can
be grounded by the ECU to close the relay contacts and the factory glow
plug harness can be used. It is recommended to wire the glow plug indicator
lamp into any of the wires in the gow plug harness.

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It must be noted that in this conguration, the brown wire coming out of
the glow relay is live at all times and thus the glow output must not be
congured to use output 1 on the ECU, which has a pull-up resistor to
12V, as this would cause a small drain on the battery when the engine is
powered o.

Figure 2.4: Modied W210 glow plug relay

2.3.5 Engine speed sensor

The factory OM605/OM606 crank speed sensor is preferred but may not
be an option on engines converted from mechanical to EDC. An alternative
is to t a hall eect sensor (1GT101 or GS100102 for example) to read
the TDC stud located on the front of the crankshaft harmonic damper. A
sensor reading the starter ring gear can also be used. Having more than
one tooth per engine rotation is preferrable for idle control and anti stall
performance with a manual transmission.

2.3.6 Injection pump

The injection pump has a single connector bringing out all of its features.
Refer to connector B pin-out for wiring information. Power is supplied to
the rack solenoid through an internal relay in the ECU, this is for safety
reasons, enabling the ECU to cut power to the injection pump in case
of component failure. If the rack solenoid is not powered through this
circuit, the fuel shut o solenoid must be.

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2.3.7 Pedal position sensor

The ECU can utilise either single potentiometer with idle switch as found
on most older electronically controlled diesels (including Mercedes OM60x)
as well as dual potentiometer type units.
PPS pin Wire colour Function ECU pin
1 blue/green primary 5V 1
feed
2 brown secondary 4 or chassis ground as in
ground OEM
3 blue/grey secondary 5V 1
feed
4 violet/yellow secondary 3
signal
5 violet/green primary signal 2
6 blue primary ground 4
Figure 2.5: Wiring for Mercedes pedal position sensor

2.3.8 Programmable outputs

The ECU has four programmable outputs and while all low speed functions
are applicable to every output, some PWM functions have dedicated outputs.
This means that if those functions are used, they can only be assigned
to the specied output. The outputs are low-side switches meaning the
negative terminal of whatever device that is to be switched on is wired
to the controller. The outputs are rated for 3A continuous current so
anything that draws more current (Has a resistance smaller than 4.5Ω)
must be wired through a relay.
Function Output
Tachometer output 1
General purpose PID 1 2
Speedometer output 2
General purpose PID 2 3
General purpose open loop PWM 3/4
Turbocharger control 4
Figure 2.6: Functions with dedicated outputs

2.4 Useful notes about the factory OM606 wiring harness

Most of the sensors on the engine (all except the MAP sensor) are brought
out in a loom that runs underneath the intake manifold and terminates
in a green connector. Alongside the green connector is a medium sized
purple wire. The purple wire is the control signal that goes to the starter
solenoid. The wires coming out of the green connector are as follows:

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Pin Wire colour Function Connects where

2 brown/black Oil level sensor Not used
3 brown Fuel shut o solenoid Any power ground
ground
4 yellow/black Fuel shut o solenoid Switched 12V
positive source
5 brown/white Sensor ground DSL1 conn A pin
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6 green/red Coolant temperature sensor DSL1 conn A pin
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7 green/white Air temperature sensor Not used
8 blue/white Fuel temperature sensor Not used
12 clear Engine speed sensor ground DSL1 conn A pin
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13 green Engine speed sensor DSL1 conn A pin
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Figure 2.7: Green connector pin-out

Note that the engine speed sensor wire is green, housed inside a shield,
covered by black isolation.

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3 Software conguration

Refer to BG calibrator manual for introduction to the PC application.

3.1 Theory of operation

The injection metering rack position is determined by monitoring the
inductance of the two coils in the rack position sensors and comparing
their values. The rack position does not have a unit of measure.Rack
control parameters -> Rack position request is the transfer function
that converts a requested injection amount into a target rack position.
Its calibration does not have to reect the actual metered fuel quantity
but for good idle control, reasonable linearity at small injection amounts
helps.
The base fuel injection quantity, in cc per 1000 events as is tradition with
diesel pump evaluation, is set by the Fuel request table as a function
of engine speed and throttle pedal position. The Fuel limit table is
applied on top of that result to limit the injection quantity if charge air
pressure (boost) is low. If using the unit to control turbocharger pressure,
the requested fuel injection quantity (ignoring the limit table) is used as
an input to the Boost target table. The metering rack is controlled
by a PID feedback loop. The P in the PID is proportional and provides
quick response. Too much P gain causes rapid oscillations when the target
position is reached. The oscillations can be dampened by the D factor
which is a derivative of the rack position and counters quick movements.
Fine control is done by the I factor, the integrator. Too little integrator
gain can cause slow oscillations as the control won't react fast enough
when over/under target.
The controller is supplied with a reasonable set of default settings o a
running engine, but some ne tuning may be necessary, especially of the
Rack position request function as there are some variations in rack
position sensor feedback between dierent pumps which are not perfectly
compensated for by the rack position sensor control. Manual transmission
cars require more attention in this area for good drivability than cars
equipped with automatic transmissions.
Engine idle is controlled by a second PID loop. Idle control is active when
numbers in the fuel request table are lower than what's required for the
engine to idle. It is therefore important that the fuel request table has
small numbers in the idle region, but too small cause the engine to return
to idle too quickly and it may stall. Too large and the engine won't return
to idle at all. This has to be tuned with the engine fully warmed up as a

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warm engine has much lower friction than a cold one and thus requires
less fuel to idle. If the idle is hunting it helps to record a data log and
observe the rackP, rackI, rackD, rackposition, rackrequest, idleP,
idleI, idleD parameters in relation to engine speed over time to determine
which parameters are leading the control. In general, a slowly hunting
idle is caused by not enough P/I gain in either rack control or idle control,
sometimes both. A good low cost log analysis application is Megalogviewer,
the free version is capable of reading short logs but it was designed for
working with controllers that log at one third of the logging rate of the
DSL1 so purchase of a license may be necessary if the log duration exceeds
30 seconds or so. This can be extended by reducing the logging rate in
the Calibrator software. The lowest recommended logging rate is 20Hz.
If tuning the parameters does not amend it, a hunting idle may also be an
indication of poor injection pump condition. If the pump has too much
friction the metering rack may need excessive feedback to move freely.
This problem may in some cases be masked by lowering the rack PWM
frequency to induce vibration and keep the rack moving.

Figure 3.1: Fuel request table

3.2 Getting started

After you have wired up the controller and connected with the calibrator
application, there are a number of things you must check before attempting
to start the engine.

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3.2.1 Engine speed sensor calibration

Select Sensor inputs -> Frequency inputs. If you have an OM605
engine with the stock 5 lug crank trigger, set the speed pulses per two
rotations to 5 and pulse averaging to 1. If you have an OM606, use 6
pulses and 1 averaging. The way these settings work is that the ECU will
ignore as many pulses as the averaging setting indicates before counting
the next pulse. Eectively dividing the number of pulses actually seen by
1+x where x is the averaging value. On the 605 for example, you have 10
pulses in two rotations but only 5 cylinders. It is counterproductive to
take an engine speed reading more often than the number of cylinders so
the divider is used to reduce the pulse count. Engine speed lter period
should be set to a number smaller than the shortest possible pulse interval
sent by the speed sensor. For an engine that sends 12 pulses across two
rotations turning 8000RPM the shortest plausible interval is 1250 µs so
the default of 1000 µs is a good choice for most installs.

3.2.2 Pedal position sensor calibration

Select Sensor inputs -> Pedal/rack position inputs -> Pedal
position voltage sensing range and verify that with the pedal up the
voltage of analog0 is less than or equal to the left number in that table.
Depress the pedal fully and verify that the voltage is equal or greater
than the right number. Check that error1 is zero and that the pedalsecondary
is always greater than pedalposition across all of the pedal range, and
that with the pedal up the pedalsecondary is at a lower value than it
is when the pedal is depressed. If error0 and error1 are zero you are
ready to start the engine.

3.2.3 Rack position calibration

This step is best done after engine has been warmed up. With the engine
not running, depress the accelerator pedal to the oor and verify that
rackposition roughly equals rackcommand and that rackpulsewidth
does not continue to rise while the pedal is being held to the oor. If
rackpulsewidth continues climbing but rackposition does not, you
must reduce the maximum number in the Rack control parameters ->
Rack position request function. If the pulse width is allowed to climb
continually, rack solenoid overheating is possible during long periods of
full throttle operation. Next thing to check is that the idlefuelrequest
is no less than about 10 µL/event after the engine has warmed up and
engine is idling. If it is smaller, adjust the rack positions for small fuel
quantities in the Rack position request function, lowering the numbers
by maybe 20 units at a time until there is some headroom for the idle
control to reduce fuel.

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3.3 Extended features

3.3.1 Cruise control
In order to use the cruise control, your controller must be using rmware
version 1.6 or greater. The cruise control requires three switches wired
multiplexed into analog input 5. The resume/accel switch goes via 22kΩ
resistor to ground, the set/decel switch goes via 10kΩ resistor to ground
and a cancel switch directly to ground with no added series resistance.
For best results these switches should ground to or near the control unit.
For cancel input, one should at least have a brake pedal switch (or relay
actuated from the brake light circuit) but may also have others wired in
parallel such as a clutch switch and/or hand operated cancel switch. For
automatic transmission applications, a vehicle speed input is necessary
for cruise control operation. For manual transmission applications it is
recommended that the vehicle speed input is wired for safety reasons
(blocking cruise control from engaging below a certain vehicle speed)
but not strictly necessary. If a visual indicator is desired when the cruise
control is active, use one of the general purpose outputs and set a condition
to turn on when ag_cruise = 1. Note that in rmware 1.9 and earlier,
the accel switch functions as set and decel switch functions as resume.
This was corrected in rmware version 1.10 to match tradition as per the
auto industry.

Figure 3.2: Typical cruise control switch wiring

3.3.2 Speedometer output

The DSL1 can as of rmware version 1.10 output a square wave signal
to control a speedometer on output 2. This can be used to calibrate the
speedometer in case the car has been tted with dierent tyres or gear
ratios. To use this function, select speedometer output as the function for
output 2, write to ash and power cycle the controller. Then to calibrate,
enter a speed to indicate in General purpose outputs -> Speedometer
output test speed and adjust the value of Speedometer output pulses

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per kilometre until the speed indicated on the speedometer matches

the congured test value. Set the test speed to zero when done. If the
speedometer behaves strange when at full throttle, it may be necessary to
rewire the speedometer and possibly the vehicle speed sensor, best noise
performance is expected when each of those is grounded to the DSL1
sensor ground.

3.4 Performing rmware upgrades

Whenever new features are introduced, new rmware becomes available
for download at https://controls.is/firmware/. See the release notes
if you are unsure of whether you should update or not. To perform a
rmware upgrade:
1. Download rmware package from web site
2. Unzip rmware package into a directory on your hard drive
3. Connect USB cable between ECU and PC.
4. Power on ECU, do not start engine.
5. If you do not have the conguration backed up, run BG Calibrator,
read conguration from ECU and save to le. This step may be
skipped if you are performing the upgrade on an ECU you haven't
made any previous conguration changes to.
6. Run upgrade.cmd in directory where rmware les are located.
7. Wait until the upgrade application nishes, should be on the order
of 10 seconds.
8. Power ECU o.
9. Do not power ECU back on until you are ready to upload conguration
to it.
The ECU has been upgraded but now contains invalid conguration. If
you are proceeding with default conguration, simply open the default
conguration le for the new rmware in BG calibrator and go on-line,
then send local settings when prompted about what to do with the ECU
side conguration. Otherwise, if you wish to retain your previous conguration,
which is generally recommended, perform the following steps:
1. Run the BG Calibrator software
2. Open your old conguration le
3. Select File -> Convert configuration from the menu bar.
4. Select the conguration included with the new rmware in the le
dialog.

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5. The conguration has now been converted to the new format, save
it and exit the Calibrator software.
6. Run the Calibrator software again and open the conguration le
you saved previously, choose to work o-line.
7. Review the settings and verify that they make sense, see release
notes for information about what settings may need revisiting.
8. Go on-line and power on the ECU. Do not start engine.
9. When prompted, select to use local settings, which will then be
uploaded to the ECU.
After the conguration has been sent to the ECU and Calibrator application
becomes responsive again, power the ECU o and then back on. Now you
can start the engine.

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A 1999 OM606 factory wiring diagram

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