power folding mirrors
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Topic: power folding mirrors
Posted By: Drahcir
Subject: power folding mirrors
Date Posted: October 12, 2003 at 11:27 PM
I need help on how to wire my power folding mirrors to my car alarm. Like, arm alarm; fold in mirror, disarm alarm; fold out mirrors. Thank You
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Posted By: crudeau
Date Posted: October 13, 2003 at 7:06 AM
what are the wires that control the mirrors? Is it three wires to hook up or 2? This is a suggestion and I think it may be cooler. What about hooking them up to the ignition? So that when the car is running the mirrors are out and when you shut it off the mirrors fold in?
Posted By: greedy111
Date Posted: October 13, 2003 at 5:58 PM
just use this configuration which is used for door locks. instead of actuators... the two wires will go to the motors for the mirrors. you can use the starter kill output from your alarm to activate the mirrors. you would probably need another relay to make the starter kill output make a signal for close and open. 
Posted By: Drahcir
Date Posted: October 15, 2003 at 9:10 PM
crudeau wrote:
what are the wires that control the mirrors? Is it three wires to hook up or 2?
This is a suggestion and I think it may be cooler. What about hooking them up to the ignition? So that when the car is running the mirrors are out and when you shut it off the mirrors fold in?
It has two wires on each mirror controlled by a relay box which has five wires. Two of the wires are the power, one wire goes to the left mirror(+) and right mirror(-), the other wire goes to the right mirror(+) and left mirror(-) and the last wire goes the mirror switch. You push, folds in, push again, folds out. Thanks
Posted By: Drahcir
Date Posted: October 15, 2003 at 9:12 PM
greedy111 wrote:
just use this configuration which is used for door locks. instead of actuators... the two wires will go to the motors for the mirrors. you can use the starter kill output from your alarm to activate the mirrors. you would probably need another relay to make the starter kill output make a signal for close and open.
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It had it's own relay box. Could I just use the output from the alarm that pulses the lock switch? tnx
Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: October 16, 2003 at 5:25 AM
For what car is this for ? Do you have the relay box, switch & the proper wiring from them ? The reason I ask is because alot of the folding mirrors come from JDM vehicles and they do not come with the relay /servo box and you have to end up using a relay bank to do a flip flop configuratiion in order for the system to work. Two wire system that alternates polarity between each function when pressed.
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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: sufferrar
Date Posted: October 16, 2003 at 8:52 AM
Velocity motors is right . i did this to my car sentra91'
and there were no relays for the mirrors -just direct wired in.
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"I'm So Loud It Hertz"
Posted By: Drahcir
Date Posted: October 16, 2003 at 7:26 PM
This is for a 1996-2000 Honda Civic 4D that was sent to me by my brother in Japan. I've got everything, the relay box, the switch and the wire harness plugs. I also figure out how I'm going to wire it, but my problem is how to trigger it with my remote(alarm system). Tnx
Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: October 16, 2003 at 9:54 PM
If you are going to control the mirrors, what you need to have done is testing the two wires at the end of the narness on the back of the switch. They will alternate polarity when you fold them in and out. You will need to replicate this process with relays in order to accomplish this. If you have the servo controller, you can test it by grounding out on eo f the two wires until the mirrors fold in and then reelase the ground and then grounding out the other wire to open the mirrors. If this works, then you will need to have two AUX channels to accomplish the open/close of the mirrors.
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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: greedy111
Date Posted: October 17, 2003 at 12:12 PM
When the fold mirror button is pressed, there is 12v present so you need to apply 12v to the wire that is attached to the button that folds the mirror. i think its blue / YELLOW. i guess you could use the pulse from your door lock, but you would have to convert the negative output from the door lock to positive with a relay.
Posted By: Drahcir
Date Posted: October 19, 2003 at 12:23 AM
How many relays do I need? Got info from a webpage and you are right greedy111, mirror signal wire color is blu/yel. Do you have relay and wire diagram for the application?
Posted By: Drahcir
Date Posted: October 27, 2003 at 10:49 PM
I wired the relays same as door actuators to the blu/yel wire on the relay box for the power folding mirrors but I put diodes on each of the trigger wires from both #30 pins. It worked and thank you for all your help.
Posted By: jtran1980
Date Posted: November 13, 2003 at 1:28 AM
Hey Drahcir...can you post ur AIM? I have a few questions regarding the install...thanks.
Posted By: jtran1980
Date Posted: November 13, 2003 at 10:29 PM
Does this picture I sketched up explain what your saying?? 
Posted By: jtran1980
Date Posted: November 13, 2003 at 10:31 PM
Posted By: Drahcir
Date Posted: November 15, 2003 at 12:56 AM
Yap! Just like that.
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