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Major System Category: ISIS Wiring
Task: Interface ISIS inVIRONMENT module
Parts:
- ISIS inVIRONMENT kit (controller, wiring harness, wire splices).
- Vintage Air Power and ECU Harness
- Vintage Air ECU
Circuit: 3 - LIGHT GREEN
Master cell: WHITE/GREEN
Prerequisite Tasks: Vintage Air Gen IV installed
Additional Costs: $435
Time Requirement: 6 hours (It should only take 2 - 3 hours)
Date Started: April 14, 2013
Date Completed: April 20, 2013
The inVIRONMENT Controller kit is designed to provide absolute control of the Vintage Air Gen IV HVAC system via the inTOUCH MAX touch screen control system. If you have gotten to this page, then you have committed to the following:
I used bolts to secure the top cover above the evaporator unit. When it became obvious I needed to get back into the area, I unbolted the cover and slid the vent hoses through the access slots.I also had to disconnect the front parking sensors.
The Vintage Air Gen IV ECU has two ports: a 14 pin port for the Vintage Air harness and a 12 pin port that the ISIS harness can plug into. The first problem is the ECU is secured by a metal bracket and the ports are jammed up against the passenger foot well inner wall. I didn't like this because it forces the wires on both harnesses to be bent in order to fit. I pried off the metal bracket holding the ECU in place and repositioned it at a 45 degree angle. I used automotive goop to secure it to the top of the evaporator unit. This allows the harnesses to easily be plugged in and out.
Vraptor stereo close out panel and put in place. I needed to ensure there was room to mount the relay blocks below the panel. I mounted using epoxy about an inch below the close out panel on a vertical chassis member.
Jay Harris answered questions, provided a PDF technical document on how the main data bus is wired. I don't think I waited more than four hours for any response. The guy never sleeps! ISIS is worth every penny when you have that kind of support! The answer is to go back to a power cell, unclip the yellow data bus connector and open her up. The yellow connect is secured by two little ears. Be careful not to snap one of these off. Inside the connector are the 7 wires that are wired into the 8 pin (RJ45 looking connector). Inscribed inside the connector is B1 and B8. The wires are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 on top (the B1 row) and 5, 6, 7, 8 on bottom (the B8 row).
Decode this as follows:
I am really glad I stopped, because had I blundered ahead, I would have wired this up wrong.
I spliced the data bus cables together. I used wire loom to protect the inVIRONMENT data bus and snaked this down the passenger side between the foot well wall and the evaporator unit, then ran it along side the drain tube until I reached the main data bus cable.
- Microprocessor controlled power system.
- Jettisoned the Factory Five kit's Painless Wiring Kit.
- Purchased the optional Air Conditioning Unit.
- Probably have figured (albeit too late) that the evaporator should be installed first.
- Committed to the entire ISIS concept.
inVIRONMENT kit: The green cables are the ISIS data bus cables, other cable pack interface to the Vintage Air ECU, a packet of butt splice and heat shrink wrap, controller module. |
14 pin Vintage Air connector from the harness to the Vintage Air ECU. |
Vraptor stereo close out panel and put in place. I needed to ensure there was room to mount the relay blocks below the panel. I mounted using epoxy about an inch below the close out panel on a vertical chassis member.
- Plug the 12 pin connector into the Vintage Air ECU.
- Plug the 4 pin connector into the power/ground port on the inVIRONMENT controller.
- Plug the 5 pin connector into the output port on the inVIRONMENT controller.
- Splice the purple wire from the Vintage Air ECU into the ignition circuit. In my case, this circuit 1/3 from power cell #1.
Spliced violet wire to the ignition wire circuit. This how the ECU and controller receive power. |
ISIS documentation. This shows the lay out of the wires in the ISIS data cable. |
Decode this as follows:
- Pin 5 is black (violet on my cable).
- Pin 6 is green (white on my cable)
- pin 7 is blue (light green on my cable)
- pin 8 (light blue on my cable)
These wires are part of the Vintage Air Harness. Blue goes to the AC Compressor and Green runs to the heater control valve/ |
I spliced the data bus cables together. I used wire loom to protect the inVIRONMENT data bus and snaked this down the passenger side between the foot well wall and the evaporator unit, then ran it along side the drain tube until I reached the main data bus cable.
- The Vintage Air blue and green wires (heater control valve and AC Compressor) are loomed to together and run out the back of the tunnel.
- The Vintage Air red and white wires (there are 2 white wires) are loomed together and run to the battery (not installed yet). There is a 30 amp fuse block that needs to be mounted, but I want to connect things up to the battery first.
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