remote start problem

I just installed a CM5000 brain with 9000's series remotes in my car (2003 accord EX-L, canadian), idatalink ads-dl module flashed with the latest firmware. I took out an old CM3000 2wss-a/s system that was no longer working (remotes dead, etc). I have two questions that I hope someone may be able to help me with. 1. I noticed the other day that my parking lights only flash during unlock. They were flashing before on lock and when programming menu options, however now they do not. Any clue about this one? 2. This may be a little more complicated than I think, however I noticed on the way back from Dauphin, MB 2 days ago that when I put on my headlights, the dash gauges dim as they should, however my center console does not. (ie radio backlight does not dim, and led's that light up the buttons do not come on). I checked all my fuses and everything seems to be fine, re-checked connectors by the interior fuse panel, everything seems as it should. Something I just figured out today with regards to point 2, if I remote start the car, then the center lights on the console come on as they should and work fine (radio dims with headlights on etc). HOWEVER, if I start the car with the actual key, they do not work. Do I have a wire reversed somewhere? or something not hooked up right? I basically just have the main harness hooked up with the starter kill/anti-grind, then a wire for the brakes, and a wire for the siren, and the ADS module handles the doors, trunk, factory alarm, bypass for immobilizer all through rs232 data port (then shock, proximity, window module, antenna, LED, thermister all hooked directly to the brain via their own plugs). I hope someone can help me out with this. Thanks, Ben

I dont have a chance right now to take a look at this, but something has occured to me. Is it possible that the green (parking light output from compustar) and the GREEN / WHITE (ignition input and ouput from compustar) are mixed up? That's the only thing that i can think of right now that is causing this mix up ...

found out a couple more things, going to be checking the wiring in a bit here when my car warms up a bit (think it's -25C out right now). 1: when you remote start, they come on as they should (constant parking light output during remote start is programmed). If you then put the key in, and hit the brakes (which kills the remote starter and the key takes over - car still running), then the lights will go out. This means to me that the compustar is providing the proper 12V+ when running, as it should, but then the car is not getting the same when it takes over. This makes me think that a wire got pulled (ie parking light pin from connector) when I was soldering that in, they are really tight in there. That'll be the first thing I look into this morning.

check your fuse in the fuse box. the 12v output from the compustar may be supplying power to the lights, but the car cant as the fuse is blown.Ted

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The green is not a parking light output. It is an ignition. The green white is an output only. Don't know what you mean by input and output.

enice wrote: The green is not a parking light output. It is an ignition. The green white is an output only. Don't know what you mean by input and output.

the green is input/out for ignition, the GREEN / WHITE is output for parking lights. Anyways, fixed the problem, parking light wire was broken after the solder joint (before going into the connector, so the GREEN / WHITE from the compustar was providing a signal as it should when it was running, however the factory switch was not controlling it cause there was not continuity [broken wire]. Thanks for the help.

tedmond wrote: check your fuse in the fuse box. the 12v output from the compustar may be supplying power to the lights, but the car cant as the fuse is blown.

you had the right idea, just the wire was broken and not the fuse that it was leading to. Thanks.