DRL lights and wiring - Circuit 1/8

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Major System Category: ISIS Wiring
Task: Wire up the DRLs
Parts:
Power Cell: 1
Circuit: 8 - GREEN
Master cell: BLUE/LIGHT BLUE
Prerequisite Tasks: Mount DRLs
Additional Costs:
Time Requirement: 90 minutes
Date Started: August 10, 2013
Date Completed: August 10, 2013
A good chunk of the front end wiring never got completed in April 2013. When I returned from the Southern Man Cave, I spent the first seven weeks working on the body. In northern climes, you really need to take advantage of the warm weather months! The GTM has been living with dangling wires from the DRLs, power cells and other things. I left them to hang down behind the grille, and it looked like a real mess.

This is an early photo of the passenger side DRL mount.  You can see wires dangling over the side. This is not the first GTM to have DRLs.

Fortunately, I have wiring diagrams worked out for these circuits. In addition, I have a spreadsheet in my master build document that goes into detail about each circuit. I will be sending this spread sheet along with my next order to ISIS Power for the remaining power cells, motion cell and master cell coder. This is because I need ISIS to prep a file that can be downloaded into the master cell for my specific circuit set up. With five power cells, I am pushing 50 circuits - there's a lot going on in the car.

This Gen I GTM in Poland mounted the DRLs above the front grille. I am finding that this area is very busy. I use the upper lip of the front grill to manage the cross connection between head lights, hazards, fog lights. I'm not sure I would want to add the DRLs there. I corresponded with this builder, and asked him about the DRLs. As in every case, GTM builders are quite happy to share their knowledge.

This is half a terminal block. Easily cut with a hack saw.

The DRLs were cut into the body to the left and right lower corners of the grille opening. The fiber glass is very thick in this area, and it is tough going. The wires coming off the DRLs is 22 gauge (not the easiest stuff to work with). Initially, I thought I would create some kind of socket to plug these into, but since I plan to add Angel Eyes around the head lights into the DRL circuit, the idea of some kind og 6 way splice become unmanageable.

I daisy chain the terminal block to create a single circuit. Then I just need a single to power or ground.

Over May and June, I worked on the Intellitronix Dash for the cockkpit. One of the techniques I used here were terminal blocks. Now six way splices are easy. The white plastic terminal blocks are very easy to customize. They come in strips of twelve connections and the strip can be cut apart with a hack saw. I need six connectors for the ground and six connectors for the power leads. That is: 2 x DRLs, 4 x Angel Eyes.

These are the power and ground terminal blocks for the DRLs. The green wire is from Power Cell #1, Circuit 8. The black ground lead hasn't been connected in this photo. The terminals were bonded to the hood using 3M 8115 panel bond.

Note: Angel Eyes cannot be installed after final paint is complete. This is probably 12 to 14 months in the future (and it could slip to Spring 2015). However, the Angel Eyes need a place to connect, so I AM building that now.

The hood mounting is problematic due to the variables associated with centering vis-a-vis the rest of the car.. I explain to people that there are 100 ways to mount the hood, and I settled on the 101st position. I have made the decision that hood will remain attached to the car and it will need to be painted in place. Everything else can be removed. To this point, a great number of things have been permanently mounted (e.g. lights, signals, parking sensors) and the wiring associated with these peripherals.

I mounted the terminal blocks above the front grille opening on the interior of the hood. This is convenient, because most of the wires can run directly to these terminal blocks. The ground is to the chassis area that supports the AC condenser, radiator and fan assembly. The power lead runs to Power cell #1 and is enclosed in wire loom. I made sure I left enough slack in the wires so the hood can open and close without pulling something loose.

Power Cell Wiring (Final Draft)

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Major System Category: ISIS Wiring
Task:Finalize ISIS Schematic
Parts: N/A
Prerequisite Tasks:
Additional Costs: N/A
Time Requirement: 10 hours
Date Started: March 5, 2013
Date Completed:  March 10, 2013
ISIS is a microprocessor based electrical system that has decentralized the fusing to power cells. Each power cell handles 10 circuits. Each circuit is fused at the power cell. The power cells are connected to a master cell (which is really nothing more than a traffic cop for signal processing between power, peripherals and switches) via a data bus. This electrical system (as is true with most vehicles) is separate from the ECU system that handles engine sensors, feed back and gauge related measurements. ISIS manages the lights, the door locks, power to the windows and mirrors and so forth.

I have been kicking around the ISIS wiring schematic for over a year now. I put the first draft up in the planning phase in October 2011. Those drawings were fairly crude renderings of where I was headed. The problem is that until I got my hands on the hardware and had completed the build to point where I had the body shell installed and recognized where I could and could not run cables, none of it clicked.

I understand the basic concepts. I can wire and splice and hook connectors together. I can connect my little test battery and see things light up or solenoids fire. What clarified my understanding was handling the physical cables for the master and power cells, comparing this to the basic wiring spreadsheets and recognizing that the wire colors were not ramdom, but had a very specific coding pattern to them. It may seem obvious to others, but once I understood the pattern everything clicked.

This post deals strictly with the power wiring schematics. It does not address the bus, mega fuses, additional modules (e.g. inReserve, inLighten, inVironment). I will cover these issues in separate posts. At present, the current system supports 40 circuits, and 39 are defined.

There are four power cells, plus a master cell. As of this writing, I have 2 power cells and a master cell installed on the car. I started with the basic 3 cell kit and the basic GTM set up.

Power Cell 1 wiring schematic. The following chart explains the wiring diagram. Color code matches the ISIS standard. (The only exception is circuit #5 where I used gray instead of white so it would be visible.) This projected over the front of the GTM chassis. The square that feeds all wires is the power cell box and reasonable represents where I have located it in the car.

Function	Power cell	connector	Circuit	fuse	Power cell wire
Right turn signal (front)	1	B	1	15	brown
Left turn signal (front)	1	B	2	15	Violet
Ignition	1	b	3	25	light green
starter	1	b	4	20	light blue
headlights	1	B	5	20	White
Fog lights	1	A	6	15	Yellow
High Beams	1	A	7	20	Blue
DRL	1	A	8		Green
Horn	1	A	9	10	Orange
Fan Override	1	A	10	25	Tan

Function	Power cell	connector	Circuit	fuse	Power cell wire
Right turn signal (rear)	2	B	1	15	brown
Left turn signal (Rear)	2	B	2	15	Violet
brake	2	b	3		light green
Left seat heater	2	b	4		light blue
right seat heater	2	B	5		White
parking brake	2	A	6		Yellow
Rear sensors	2	A	7		Blue
Fuel Pump	2	A	8		Green
tpms	2	A	9		Orange
Hatch popper	2	A	10		Tan

Power Cell 3 wiring schematic. The following chart explains the wiring diagram. Color code matches the ISIS standard. (The only exception is circuit #5 where I used gray instead of white so it would be visible.) This projected over the front of the GTM chassis. The square that feeds all wires is the power cell box and reasonable represents where I have located it in the car.

Function	Power cell	connector	Circuit	fuse	Power cell wire
right window up	3	B	1		brown
right window down	3	B	2		Violet
left window up	3	b	3		light green
left window down	3	b	4		light blue
left door popper	3	B	5		White
right door popper	3	A	6		Yellow
telescoping steering	3	A	7		Blue
hot plug	3	A	8		Green
front sensors	3	A	9		Orange
Map Lights	3	A	10		Tan

Power Cell 4 wiring schematic. The following chart explains the wiring diagram. Color code matches the ISIS standard. (The only exception is circuit #5 where I used gray instead of white so it would be visible.) This projected over the rear of the GTM chassis. The seat heaters is an approximate location inside the cockpit. The square that feeds all wires is the power cell box and reasonable represents where I have located it in the car.

Function	Power cell	connector	Circuit	fuse	Power cell wire
escort 9500 ci	4	B	1		brown
ars global	4	B	2		Violet
homelink	4	b	3		light green
wiper	4	b	4		light blue
side mirror	4	B	5		White
interior lights	4	A	6		Yellow
hot plug	4	A	7		Blue
cruise control	4	A	8		Green
dash/Parking	4	A	9		Orange
	4	A	10		Tan