What Acuator to use?

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Topic: What Acuator to use?

Posted By: stingray_01
Subject: What Acuator to use?
Date Posted: April 07, 2004 at 11:28 PM

I've got a 2-door car with central locking, when you unlock the drivers door with the key it also unlocks the passneger side. I'm am guessing the passenger side already has an actuator that is activated when the driver door is lock or unlocked. That means I only need to put an actuator on the drivers door for the alarm to unlock and lock both doors right? I've got this 4-door kit where there's three 2-wire actuators and one 5-wire actuator. I've read from past posts that you only need the 2-wire actuator hooked up to two relays. Is that correct? How can I use the 5-wire actuator or isn't that needed?

Thankyou for any help

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Posted By: Sweekster
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 12:03 AM

You might as well use one of the 2 wire ones and save the five wire one for another car. Does the car have a lock.unlock button/switch already? If so, then just add one of the 2 wire ones to the driver's door (easier to wire up). Use two 5 pin 30/40 amp relays and this diagram and connect it to the door lock output from your alarm. I recently did something similar to my cargo van only i used three 2 wire actuators and also added a switch along with the alarm. Worked out great.

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Posted By: stingray_01
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 12:14 AM

On the driver's door there's a lock and unlock button to control the passenger door, is that what you're talking about?

Thankyou

Posted By: Javelin3o4
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 1:05 AM

I think you would just install the 2 wire actuator in the driver door, and use 1 relay for it. (like the DEI 451M Relay)

Posted By: profuse007
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 1:48 AM

usually 2 wire actuator require a reverse polarity setup that uses 2 relays. the 451m works the same way but smaller version.

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Posted By: draasch
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 7:03 AM

Lets go back to the beginning...what kind of car do you have??

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Posted By: stingray_01
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 8:18 AM

it's going to be put in a 1989 sklyine r32

Posted By: Sweekster
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 10:46 AM

Yeah, that's what I meant. You could probably just use a 2 wire actuator with either the DEI 451m Relay module or two 5 Pin 30/40 amp relays using the wiring diagram I stated above. Nice car by the way. Is it right hand drive?

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Posted By: chriswallace187
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 3:00 PM

Be advised you may not need the actuator. Older model Nissans at times used central locking but had actuators in both doors, and the wiring was a Type F(single wire, cut to lock/ground to unlock) system.

Posted By: draasch
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 3:07 PM

i have never heard of a 1989 sklyine r32. are you in the states??

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Posted By: Sweekster
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 4:48 PM

Only way it could be here in the states is if it was imported. Nissan only sent Left hand drive Skylines to France and Germany I think. And they never actually sent the car here. There's an importer in Irvine California (can't remember the name) was and I think still importing the R34 (like the white one in 2 Fast 2 Furious) The closest thing to it in the states and Canada is the 240sx.

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Posted By: profuse007
Date Posted: April 08, 2004 at 4:48 PM

thats nissan skyline, only in europe and australia. hes an aussie.

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