561r

Hi folks, new to this forum.

Can someone please explain what latched/pulsed is in reference to hooking up the rear defogger from the switch?

Thank you for the response, it makes absolute sense.

One more question should do it:

There is a BLACK/ white neutral safety shutdown input wire on the 561R. The option I will use has the blk/wht wire connected to the toggle switch and a grw connected to the switch. What is the toggle for?

regards,

The toggle is to be used if you don't install a hood pinswitch. This way you can flip the switch to ground before taking the vehicle for service. One side is grounded, the other goes to the neg hood shutdown wire. Grey on that model, I believe?

I usually tie the BLACK/ white neutral wire into the grpund wire. Many new vehicles are nearly impossible to find the proper wire to connect it to.

The toggle switch, more generally is used whenever you want remote starting disabled - for example if the vehicle's parked in an indoor garage, kids play with the remote too much at home, whatever...without the switch turned to on, the vehicle will not remotely start.

DEI's instructions for the wire are confusing...they make it seem as though every vehicle has a neutral safety wire which is grounded when the car is in park/neutral. This is not the case except on certain GM vehicles, and their reason for having the wire at all is as follows:

Most cars have an electrical neutral safety switch - current will not go from the starter wire by the switch to the starter motor unless the car is in park or neutral. However, many GM rear-wheel drive vehicles built prior to 1996/2.5 liter pre-1995 Dodge Dakotas have a mechanical neutral safety switch, which means that there is a block in the key switch that doesn't allow it to turn to the cranking position, unless the trans. is in park or neutral. This type of switch will do absolutely nothing for safety if electrical power is sent to the starter wire in a drive gear, which is what a remote start does.

There are various ways of doing a safe remote start install on one of those GM cars which I won't get into here. They are all more complicated than a one-wire connection.

DEI's engineers decided to put the neutral safety wire on there so that a remote start could be done safely and easily - the one-wire hook up at the ECM is quite simple on the GM vehicles that have it.

Bottom line - on any vehicle not mentioned here the neutral safety wire does not need to go anywhere whatsoever on the vehicle.

One other area of the instructions I find difficult to interpret for the 561R. Quoted from the manual:

WHITE/ Blue remote start (-) activation input.

I believe I have found the answer to my prior post on activation inputs. Replys to this have been made elsewhere in this forum.    regards,

You'd need to figure out how the defogger switch on your car is wired.  Basically this entails testing all the wires at the defogger switch, and seeing if one either:

a. Shows ground when the defogger is active.

b. Shows ground when the defogger switch is held in, regardless of whether turning on or off.

Case a you would hook the blue/white to that wire and program it for latched defogger.

Case b do the same, but program it for pulsed defogger.

Post back or PM me if the situation's different from either of those 2.