Door openers
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Door openers
At the risk of igniting the passions of our stocker brothers, I seek some help with the wiring of my truck. The unit pictured below is what came in the truck-- the wires freed of the enormous mess of unnecessary wires beneath the dash. I just need to know where to hook what wire where. I'd call the manufacturer, but he prefers to remain annonymous. There is a simple embossed American flag patriotically adorning the unit-- otherwise no pertainent info on who made it.
If we do get some raring up on our hindquarters and yelling, "take that stuff to the HAMB, hotrod boy!!", then, so be it. For the kindred souls who are as hopelessly lost with electricals-- thanks for your patience.
locked out, himmelberg
If we do get some raring up on our hindquarters and yelling, "take that stuff to the HAMB, hotrod boy!!", then, so be it. For the kindred souls who are as hopelessly lost with electricals-- thanks for your patience.
locked out, himmelberg
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As one who hails from the darkside and couldn't more proud of it, I have no idea what that unit is. I would guess that those are inline fuses but without a volt/ohm meter, who knows. You might try sending the picture to Auto-Loc or some of the other vendors. Sorry
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Peter -
I do have an idea of what that thing is. It looks very much like the remote receiver for my solenoid door locks. I installed my system two years ago and may have saved the instructions. I'll look tonite to see if I still have them.
I would just rattle off what each wire is from memory, but then again, I have probably recycled that gray cell...
seems I don't have many good ones left.
I do have an idea of what that thing is. It looks very much like the remote receiver for my solenoid door locks. I installed my system two years ago and may have saved the instructions. I'll look tonite to see if I still have them.
I would just rattle off what each wire is from memory, but then again, I have probably recycled that gray cell...
seems I don't have many good ones left.
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Depending on who's system you are using, you might be able to find some directions on their website. I am using a Crimestopper Alarm setup for my door poppers. I ditched the alarm and just used the two accessory outlets on the system for my keyless entry. They have all of their installation instructions on their website, so maybe your manufacturer has the instructions on their website as well.
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The fused red one is the power lead, the lone black one is likely the antenna, the fused white likely the horn, the rest are the solenoid and switch leads but which are which???? If you don't find out before, I can dig thru my boxes of parts awaiting installation and see how closely mine resembles yours.
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Thanks, guys. So if we look at the picture labelled it is like this?
To open the driver's door took one punch on the button, the passenger door was two punches. This is all starting to make a little sense. Maybe.
Standing by, himmelberg
To open the driver's door took one punch on the button, the passenger door was two punches. This is all starting to make a little sense. Maybe.
Standing by, himmelberg
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still need the 2 leads to the solenoids (may be 2, 3 or 4 wires depending on if it was able to be used on a 4 door model like mine). I'm using one of the back door solenoids for the Panel's rear door lock. Is the yellow wire spliced into the red?
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The stockers say they dont like this kind of stuff but if we could read their minds as they are sliding across the seat to try and escape the confines of the cab or doing the door dance by running around the truck and doing the reach over we would probably find that most of them secretly desire the new fangled electronic gizmos that magically lock/unlock/turn on/turn off/roll up/roll down etc.
Typically and units like this there is both a 12v input and a switched 12v input. The 12v input is usually red, the switched either yellow or orange. from looking at your pic I would say the yellow is a switched and someone just tapped it into the 12v constant.
Now that you know the basics to power the thing up you could always hook up some jolts to it and use either a test light or a meter to decipher the other wires as you press the buttons on your key pad. The outputs to the door locks probably need a relay. I think I have a few schematics from the old GM keyless entry/alarm systems laying about. I think they were made by Autolock even though they carried a GM part #
Good luck with it
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Typically and units like this there is both a 12v input and a switched 12v input. The 12v input is usually red, the switched either yellow or orange. from looking at your pic I would say the yellow is a switched and someone just tapped it into the 12v constant.
Now that you know the basics to power the thing up you could always hook up some jolts to it and use either a test light or a meter to decipher the other wires as you press the buttons on your key pad. The outputs to the door locks probably need a relay. I think I have a few schematics from the old GM keyless entry/alarm systems laying about. I think they were made by Autolock even though they carried a GM part #
Good luck with it
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Originally Posted by AXracer
still need the 2 leads to the solenoids (may be 2, 3 or 4 wires depending on if it was able to be used on a 4 door model like mine). I'm using one of the back door solenoids for the Panel's rear door lock. Is the yellow wire spliced into the red?
Bobby, power seemed to have gone from one of my many solenoids removed from the firewall. We suspect that it may have been the switched power. Is this possible?
Still standing by, PennDick-- thanks.
This may not be worth trying to save the hundred and a half that a new one would cost-- sometimes being a school teacher has its drawbacks.
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Now, now, don't give up that easy.
I'm out of town right now, I'll check for a schematic when I get home (I think I might even know where it is)
Like I said, power it up and see what kind of outputs you have. Remember that the magic voodoo black brain box could control each circuit in one of two ways. Either by supply 12 volts to the accesory or by grounding the accessory.
Bobby
I'm out of town right now, I'll check for a schematic when I get home (I think I might even know where it is)
Like I said, power it up and see what kind of outputs you have. Remember that the magic voodoo black brain box could control each circuit in one of two ways. Either by supply 12 volts to the accesory or by grounding the accessory.
Bobby
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