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derekhh 
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Posted: September 23, 2004 at 12:53 AM / IP Logged  

ok do you HAVE to have the brake light wire hooked up for the remote start to work?

also do i really need the one harness off the satalite that has four wire coming out of it? (not the heavy gauge wires)

its going in a 95 honda civic

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derekhh wrote:

ok do you HAVE to have the brake light wire hooked up for the remote start to work?

also do i really need the one harness off the satalite that has four wire coming out of it? (not the heavy gauge wires)

its going in a 95 honda civic

You don't have to have it hooked up for it to work. However, I would strongly recommend you do hook it up. If you don't hook it up, it's a safety issue-- say you hit remote start it, and your S.O./kid/service tech is in the car. Instead of fumbling for the on/off switch, they can just hit the brake, and it'll stop. Say it somehow manages to start in gear-- natural reaction to stop a moving car-- hit the brakes! Also, w/ that alarm, the brake switch will trigger the siren if it's hit while the alarm is armed. That's a little more secure...
I would strongly recommend hooking up brakeswitch, hoodpin, and remote start kill switch. Heck-- my car's an automatic, and I've hooked up the park/neutral detect and the handbrake.
If you don't need any of those outputs (to drive an immobilizer bypass or something similar) or other relays, then the answer is no. In your car, I can't see why you'd need any of them.
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Posted: September 23, 2004 at 5:19 PM / IP Logged  

yes and no.... yes, you do need the brake switch hooked up so that when you step on the brake to do a take-over you dont have 2 sources powering up the same circuits....

and no, you dont need to hook up the other harness, it is for powering additional relays or 2nd status output....

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hagmanti 
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kgerry wrote:
yes and no.... yes, you do need the brake switch hooked up so that when you step on the brake to do a take-over you dont have 2 sources powering up the same circuits....
Would that really be a problem?
12V -> Relay -> ignition wire
12V -> Ignition switch -> ignition wire
Normally, I'd agree (don't power the same circuit from two place), but I can't think of anything bad that could happen-- the power's actually coming from the same place (probably the same wire!) in both connections...
I guess most relays wear out quicker at normally open than normally closed...
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