Abstract: A fuel injector has a body containing a mechanism that is operable to cause fuel to be injected out of the body and into an engine combustion chamber. An electric actuator operates the mechanism to initiate fuel injection and to terminate fuel injection. The injector has an identity circuit that possesses an identity characteristic identifying a calibration category into which the fuel injector has been previously categorized based on data obtained from actual operation of the fuel injector. In some embodiments the identity circuit is electrically connected in shunt with the electric actuator and imposes no significant effect on the response of the fuel injector to the initiating and terminating electric signals. In others, it is connected between engine ground and one actuator terminal.

Abstract: The engine control module incorporates strategy which controls and modulates glow plug activation and also controls activation of a glow plug indicator lamp mounted in the cab of the vehicle. The control functions are separate in action but both are based on first sensing input power. If power is out of a predefined range strategy is provided for maintaining the glow plugs off. Both are secondly based on sensed engine coolant temperature, with out of range coolant temperatures causing activation of the glow plugs so long as input power is within range.