signal to detect remote start engaged?
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Topic: signal to detect remote start engaged?
Posted By: tstein78
Subject: signal to detect remote start engaged?
Date Posted: January 09, 2012 at 4:53 PM
I'm using a Viper 5501 remote start only. Which viper output provides a signal when the remote starter is engaged? I have a custom circuit I'm wanting to run only when the remote start is "active".
I see there is a 2nd Status output, but that appears to only signal when the car start process begins (not necessarily when the car is successfully started).
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Posted By: offroadzj
Date Posted: January 09, 2012 at 5:00 PM
The status output and 2nd status output should both show ground (200ma only) while the vehicle is running under remote start.
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Kenny
Owner / Technician
KKD Garage LLC
Albany, NY 12205
Posted By: tstein78
Date Posted: January 09, 2012 at 5:06 PM
Thanks for the reply kenny. The install guide says this about the status outputs:
"This wire supplies an output as soon as the module begins the remote start process"
Is this incorrect and the output actually grounds after the start has succeeded?
Posted By: offroadzj
Date Posted: January 09, 2012 at 5:14 PM
No, it sends a (-) 200ma output before the remote start process and maintains the output while the remote starter is engaged. It will only shut down down the remote starter shuts down (brake pedal input, hood pin input, etc)
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Kenny
Owner / Technician
KKD Garage LLC
Albany, NY 12205
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: January 09, 2012 at 5:44 PM
The answer to your question is NOTHING.
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Read the installation manual, do a search here or online for your vehicle wiring before posting.
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: January 09, 2012 at 5:46 PM
Having said that assuming a gasoline engine why not run a signal off the status output with a 5 second delay, which will tell you "should" be running rather than actually running.
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Amateurs assume, don't test and have problems; pros test first. I am not a free install service.
Read the installation manual, do a search here or online for your vehicle wiring before posting.
Posted By: tstein78
Date Posted: January 10, 2012 at 7:58 AM
Thanks for the responses. So I'll plan to use the status line and execute a delay. That should work for what I want to do.
Posted By: tedmond
Date Posted: January 10, 2012 at 8:24 AM
you can use the second status output BLUE/WHITE, set it for Defogger latched.
this output will turn on 15seconds after it has been remote started.
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Ted
2nd Year Tier 1 Medical School
Still installing as a hobby...pays for groceries
Compustar Expert
Posted By: tstein78
Date Posted: January 10, 2012 at 8:38 AM
tedmond wrote:
you can use the second status output BLUE/WHITE, set it for Defogger latched.
this output will turn on 15seconds after it has been remote started.
Doesn't this mode also have an off timer? I think it turns off after 10 minutes.
Posted By: tedmond
Date Posted: January 10, 2012 at 2:32 PM
it can be pulsed or latched for 10 min, constant on until starter shuts down.
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Ted
2nd Year Tier 1 Medical School
Still installing as a hobby...pays for groceries
Compustar Expert
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: January 10, 2012 at 5:26 PM
Which is all very well Ted but doesn't solve the problem any more than my solution, we're still ASSUMING the engine is running rather than KNOWING it's running.
There's a chance I could give a definite answer if our poster had the common sense/read the rules and told us make model and year of car.
The correct answer would probably be to take tach with some kind of sample and hold circuitry/process control but don't ask me to design it, that's for the Piersons and Oldsparks.
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Amateurs assume, don't test and have problems; pros test first. I am not a free install service.
Read the installation manual, do a search here or online for your vehicle wiring before posting.
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