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Re: THe NAC Lots-O-Post Thread
Wonder when I'm leaving the office today?
Speaking of which... anyone ever work on a remote start system? I've been toying with the idea of hacking a really ghetto ultra simple one up so I can stop getting into a freezing Jeep, I just can't decide how I should detect when to switch power from START+RUN to only RUN on the ignition switch. I'm thinking maybe have it power START till it sees a fraction of a second worth of ignition pulses to the ICM, since that means the engine is running itself by then. I just don't want to have it stop cranking too soon and stall out, or keep cranking too long and screw up the starter. And to hell with paying for a prebuilt remote start setup, that's no fun.
EDIT - for clarity; this would probably be built off a crappy ham-band radio and I'd be pushing buttons on my handheld radio to start it. No real smarts, just some relays, tone decoders, etc.
EDIT2: guess who just bought a fully legit 96 FSM for 47 bucks? :yelclap:
Fully agreed, especially when they are the difference between a contraction and a completely different word...There are more keys than just the letters on a keyboard .!..!.
Wonder when I'm leaving the office today?
Speaking of which... anyone ever work on a remote start system? I've been toying with the idea of hacking a really ghetto ultra simple one up so I can stop getting into a freezing Jeep, I just can't decide how I should detect when to switch power from START+RUN to only RUN on the ignition switch. I'm thinking maybe have it power START till it sees a fraction of a second worth of ignition pulses to the ICM, since that means the engine is running itself by then. I just don't want to have it stop cranking too soon and stall out, or keep cranking too long and screw up the starter. And to hell with paying for a prebuilt remote start setup, that's no fun.
EDIT - for clarity; this would probably be built off a crappy ham-band radio and I'd be pushing buttons on my handheld radio to start it. No real smarts, just some relays, tone decoders, etc.
EDIT2: guess who just bought a fully legit 96 FSM for 47 bucks? :yelclap:
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