Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Harbor Freight Cen-Tech 98614 & Autel MS509 Scan Tools

It's time to do some opening up of my scan tool and attempt to decipher the internals.





Now for a close up of the electronics:

I will be publishing a list of critical components (primarily ICs) on the board soon to help with reverse engineering the unit.

9 comments:

  1. Hi there! Thank you very much for the high definition pictures. I'm trying to get my MS509 (clone version) to connect to my pc. I notice that there are a 4 components missing on my unit. The U16 is missing and thanks to you I know which one to get. But I need the values of the two resistors on top of the U16 and the value of the CRY4 Crystal and Capacitors C15 and C16.

    Could you please let me know the values of them?

    Thank you very much in advance

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  2. I think, Crystal=6 MHz, and C15=C16=27 pF

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  3. Could you help me getting the software that device is running? My ms509 is bricked by flashing wrong bin file. Thanks!

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  4. How can I recover my ms 509 if it was flashed with a wrong bin file?

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  5. I manage to update DTS of my ms509 clone by putting FDTI chips and 6MHZ crystal. I did'nt update software version because some user bricked their unit when they update the version. If ever i have a backup of U9 atmel micro processor and U12 eeprom will try to update but the problem is when i tried to read u12 45DB161D-SU (Atmel) my programmer tells me that the ic is locked. you can visit my blog with my modification of my clone scanner http://darwinbagsik.blogspot.com/2015/04/cloned-autel-ms-509-scanner-modification.html

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  6. Thanks for your input Darwin. Great to know someone else is working on this!

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  7. Hello please help with the value of this components: c43, cry4, c23, c26, c36, c29, c32, c5 and c41. Thanks a lot

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  8. hello team kindly help with the pinouts for the connector. i need to make a connection to usb so that i can update my ms509. please help.
    +254780082138 is my whatsapp number

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