parking lights for compustar cm6000

Okay, this will be my first time installing a Compustar alarm in one of my cars (ft6000-as-cont and RF-1WG5-900SH), because my 2000 Chevy Tracker is a 5spd. I've installed several DEI alarms in the past with no issues, so I'm pretty confident with installing this system. But I want to clarify the parking light wires on this system before I get to installing the system this weekend:

Connector1/pin6 - GREEN / WHITE - Parking Light (+) Output or Trunk Release (+) Output
Connector3/pin2 - ORANGE / Black - Parking Light Reminder (-) Input

From what I can gather, from the installation guide I have, the parking GREEN / WHITE wire will activate the lights for the alarm. The ORANGE / Black wire, is used so that you don't forget to turn off your lights when you're about to leave your car. (From the manual, the ORANGE / Black wire monitors the vehicle’s parking lights. It prevents the unit from setting Reservation Mode if this wire sees input.)

So would these two wires be connected to the same parking light wire? Do people not even connect this wire if the car has day light running lights?

the GREEN / WHITE is the parking light wire, or it can be used for trunk depening on where u put the jumper.

and the parking light reminder, do not connect that with the GREEN / WHITE. as you will damage the brain.

you dont need to connect this wire.

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Ted
2nd Year Tier 1 Medical School
Still installing as a hobby...pays for groceries
Compustar Expert

As Ted pointed out, you don't have to use the (-) Parking Light Reminder wire and you definitly don't want to attach them together. 

It can come in handy to prevent a dead battery if you leave the parking lights on when you set reservation mode and exit the car.  I usually set the Compustar to turn off the engine and lock the doors 10 seconds after the last door is closed.  If you walk away and listen for the engine to turn off you might not look to see if the lights are off also ( I have done this and returned to a dead battery in the morning   ).   In your Tracker you could use the (+) Parking Light wire in the kick panel and the CM6000 (+) Parking Light output to turn on the lights.  Then you could connect the Parking Light Reminder wire to the Trackers (-) Parking Light wire at the light switch.  But it is purely optional.

PARKING LIGHTS ( - )  GREEN from switch to RED / BLUE (-)   RED / BLUE (-) AT JUNCTION BLOCK IN LEFT KICK PANEL 

PARKING LIGHTS ( + )  RED / YELLOW (+)   AT JUNCTION BLOCK IN LEFT KICK PANEL 

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Great! Thank you guys. I'm the kind of person that likes to install every possble feature in my installs... if it seems easy enough to connect this wire and the key sense wire, I will.

My next hurdle is going to br running the 5-wire door actuators through the door boots, since the Tracker uses a molex connector at the door jam :(. Any tips for this?

If the molex has enough un-used pins, there is a nice how-to post with pictures somewhere on this Forum.  Takes some time but makes for a reliable, quality install.

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Thanks once again! I will look for that how-to!

Found the Molex wiring link :  https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp~TID~78731~PN~1~TPN~2    

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You rock! Thanks a bunch! This is going to be an install fun filled weekend :)

Well, I got it installed this weekend... The tracker is surprisingly easy to install this into. However, I'm starting to think the there might be something wrong with my system :(

The system wont learn the tach, I connected the system straight to the ECM and injector and a plug coil... the system still blinks three times when I attempted to have it learn the tach. In an effort to see if the remote start would even work, I switched the system to tachless remote start (at least I think I did, the button sequence was bizarre!) and still I'm not able to get the tracker into reservation mode.

The parking brake tests ground when it's pulled up... I'm not sure what else to do. Anybody have any suggestions?

The Compustar has to be in Tach mode for a manual transmission vehicle.  All remotes should be programmed first.  Switch back to Tach Mode first.  Menu 2 Option 10 to setting 1.  Then make sure your tach wire is connected to a good tach signal.  Verify with a Digital Multi Meter.  Should read between 1 - 6 volts AC and rise with RPM's.  Soldered connections is the only way to go under the hood.  Then do the Tach Learn sequence. 

To get into reservation mode: the car is running, shifter to neutral, clutch up, engage parking brake, remove foot from brake pedal, remove key from ignition ( car remains running ), open door and exit, close door ( all doors must be closed ).  Engine should stop and doors should lock.  If you have the hood pin and trunk trigger hooked up, those must be closed ( no ground input signal )  to get into reservation mode.

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So I went under the dash again and retested all of the ignition wires, the brake switch wire and the parking brake wire... all check out. I did find out that the car was in valet mode. However, even after taking it out of valet mode the system will still not go into reservation mode.

Could it be possible that maybe the the parking brake wire isn't giving a strong enough ground signal? I turned on the turbo timer feature, but even that doesn't seem to be working...

kreg357, sorry I didn't get an email notification of your reply... so I responded before realizing that you had responded to my post.

The tach signal from the ECU was not reading over a 1v. I tried getting a signal from the injectors, same thing. The wire from the coil gives me the best tach signal I can find... although at idle it the voltage sits at just under 1v, maybe that's why it wont accept it as a tach signal?

I'm going to see if I can reset the brain and set the alarm to read the tach signal... I hope I can get this to work.

Compustars are pretty good at detecting the Tach signal.  I had no problems with one ( CM5200 ) syncing up to an induvidual coil on a Civic which was reading 0.6 v A/C at warm idle.

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I wonder if it didn't want to detect the tach, because of the system being in valet mode?

I'll make the changes tonight after class... hopefully it's as easy as just changing that one setting.

Thanks!

doesnt matter, you tell the unit to go into tach learn mode so it will.

kreg, congrats on the 3star and SILVER rating.

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Ted
2nd Year Tier 1 Medical School
Still installing as a hobby...pays for groceries
Compustar Expert

Ok, I figured out why the tach signal wasn't reading right... my DMM was giving me a false reading. I found a good tach wire at the ECM and the system took it. remote start works now :).

I don't know why the alarm didn't work with the tachless mode activated... I suppose it doesn't really matter anymore now.

Thanks for your help kreg!

One last question regarding this system. I installed an Ultra Start 2256M in my brothers 1992 Mitsubishi Eclilpse, and it had a feature where if you set the car into reservation mode and you needed to get something out of the car later on; you could remote start the car, open it up, get what you needed and then shut it down- however the system would still stay in reservation mode. I tried this with my system last night and it didn't work. Do I always have to turn the ignition on and press the brake to get it into reservation mode?

Happy to hear its all working now!  

Compustars are a little different.  You can go into reservation mode and start it & stop it and it will still be in reservation mode, but if you open any door, reservation mode is cancelled.  Compustars watch the E Brake signal to begin the reservation mode entry process.

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