Testing the wiring and gauge for 3 wire sensor

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This is probably a rudimentary question, but what is the proper way to test the wiring and gauge for a 3 wire pressure sensor? I have a Holley 0-100 psi sensor attached to my fuel pressure regulator. I am suddenly getting no reading from the sensor, but it is not because of a lack of fuel pressure. This sensor is very new, not that that means anything these days. I know that one wire should be 5 volts reference from the ECU, one is the signal from the sensor, and the other is ground. Do I jump the 5 volt reference to the sensor signal wire, and ground the ground wire in order to check for gauge movement? A new sensor is like $140 so trying to verify that is the problem. I am running a Holley HP ECU so I just don't want to do something dumb to hurt it. Thanks.
 

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This is probably a rudimentary question, but what is the proper way to test the wiring and gauge for a 3 wire pressure sensor? I have a Holley 0-100 psi sensor attached to my fuel pressure regulator. I am suddenly getting no reading from the sensor, but it is not because of a lack of fuel pressure. This sensor is very new, not that that means anything these days. I know that one wire should be 5 volts reference from the ECU, one is the signal from the sensor, and the other is ground. Do I jump the 5 volt reference to the sensor signal wire, and ground the ground wire in order to check for gauge movement? A new sensor is like $140 so trying to verify that is the problem. I am running a Holley HP ECU so I just don't want to do something dumb to hurt it. Thanks.

It may not be that simple. If you have a +5 reference, a signal out and ground - that (to me) implies a digital output which isn't going to be a nice simple 0v=0PSI; +5v=100PSI type of thing. My guess is the sensor is sending out pulses at a variable frequency and the Holley ECU counts the pulses. You will probably need an oscilloscope to observe the output from the sensor.
 

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