99 chevy astro awd

hey guys , i installed a alarm/emote start in my 99 astro. hee is my concern. the van has factory keyless entry which controls teh dome light. once you lock the doors viar oem keyless emote the dome goes out within 5 seconds. now that i dont use the oem remote no more it takes about 30 seconds for the dome to go out when leaving the vehicle. is there a way to make the ligh go out instant? thanks joe donato

The only thing I could maybe think of would be this. 1. With the engine off, open the door. 2. Close the door. 3. Mess around with the dash dimmer and/or "dome override" switches on the dash and see if you can make the light go out. If you have any luck with that, maybe you can use a "pulse after shutdown" output from your remote starter to duplicate what you did with the buttons.

thanks for your input, i tried that, seems the factory keyless lock button is the only thing that makes the light go out within a few seconds. without hitting the lock on the keyless the light will stay on for 30 seconds, then all is good.

did you connect the domelight supervision wire from the alarm? also, its good to put the model alarm you have in your post because all of them are different and some of us probably have more experience with your product than others. 

I did not hook up the dome supervision. Its a prestige aps997. I have to gigure out how to disable the dome supervision from the factory keyless

I'm not sure about Audiovox alarms, but on the DEI products I use, the domelight goes out when you lock the door, comes on when you unlock if the domelight supervision wire is connected. you would just need to connect to the purple (-) at the headlight switch which is the same wire as the door trigger.

i might be congusing people. the probolem is the facory keyless keeps the light on for 30 seconds after closing door if you do not press the lock button on the factory remote. alam works fine. i just wanna try to get it so the light shuts of quicker

right, and by connecting the dome supervision wire from the alarm to the door trigger wire in the car, the domelight should go out when you press lock on the aps997 remote

Joe, Since touching the switches on the dash didn't do it, well, I can think of a couple of more options. Here are the possiblities: 1. How about if you turn the ignition on and off really fast? You could use the APS997's BLACK/ green wire, to a relay, to give the van's ignition wire a 1-second pulse every time you lock the doors. 2. If you're up for it, you could always open up your OEM remote, solder wires onto the contacts inside the remote, then use the APS997's lock wire to drive a relay, and have the relay close the contacts on the remote.....then it'll lock just like it did from the factory and the alarm will go out. 3. Another option, again if you're up for it, would be to completely eliminate the van's factory BCM from controlling the domelight in the first place. You would go to the individual doorpins, cut each wire a few inches away from the pinswitch, put an inline diode on each, then run all those to a relay and have the relay trigger the domelight directly. Then you'll have 100% direct control of the domelight, with no factory dome supervision whatsoever. You could connect the APS997's domelight supervision, if desired. You could also, if desired, connect the dashboard domelight on/off switch to your relay so you can turn on the interior lights when you need to. Note that if you do this, you'll lose your key-in-ignition warning chime unless you do something fancy to try to integrate it. 4. Maybe something simpler........what is it that really has you concerned about this? I'm going to guess that you're worried about forgetting the domelight switched on, leaving it on overnight, and draining the battery, right? My '96 Camaro and 2000 Deville both turn off the domelight after a period of time, so it's impossible for me to kill the battery even if I forget it switched on. On the other hand, my '96 Roadmaster wagon doesn't have this feature, and I've accidentally drained the battery a couple of times. So anyway, for a '99 Astro, maybe GM gave you this feature, maybe not. Pretty much any new GM product has it, but the older ones only sometimes. So here's what you could do: Turn the domelight on and leave it on on purpose. Go inside your house and have dinner or something. Go back outside and see if the light is still on. If you find that the light went out on its own, you can probably stop worrying about a dead battery and just leave it the way it is.

If you don't mind losing illuminated entry and exit, you can rewire it at the remote keyless entry module. The module is locate behind the right side of the instrument panel. It should have a 19 pin connector with 12 wires. The 2 wires you are interested in are the gray and white. Make sure the white wire does not go +12V when the unlock switch is operated. The gray wire should be in position 'K' and the white in 'S'. If you cut these 2 wires away from the RKE module and splice them together, you will bypass the illuminated entry/exit function. The lights will still come on when the doors are opened. When testing they should both be at ground with any door open (check with the ignition on, so you don't have to worry about the delay). The domelights will not illuminate by opening a door if the defeat switch (located at the dimmer switch) is on but will still illuminate by RKE. Bypassing the RKE will still allow you to use the defeat switch. You can't just unplug the RKE module because you will lose the domelight function when you open the doors. If you want diagrams for the interior lights and RKE, let me know and I should be able to upload them tomorrow.