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Re: Loots Red custom

Postby loot » Fri May 10, 2019 9:34 pm

:lol:
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Re: Loots Red custom

Postby bigjohnthomas » Sat May 11, 2019 7:16 am

Your feeling sleepy
Your falling into a deep deep sleep
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Your underpants are getting heavy
You need to remove them

You must sell red to me
You must sell red to me
You must ,,,,,

In a moment you will awake
And all you will remember is that you must sell red to meeeee :P


That should do it 8)
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Re: Loots Red custom

Postby loot » Sat May 11, 2019 11:45 am

:lol:

Someone's taken the van, I was asleep when they took it.... Noooooooooo :P
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65 290 2.2 125ps custom with 2 side doors 8)
07 350 170ps
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Re: Loots Red custom

Postby bigjohnthomas » Sat May 11, 2019 12:04 pm

:? And when you woke up did you have your underpants round your ankles
And a sore bum ?
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Re: Loots Red custom

Postby loot » Sat May 11, 2019 1:35 pm

:shock: :lol:
56 350 2.2 130ps mk7 with 2 side doors 8)
65 290 2.2 125ps custom with 2 side doors 8)
07 350 170ps
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Ids map here
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Re: Loots Red custom

Postby Oliver01495 » Fri Apr 08, 2022 11:38 am

loot wrote:You need the capacitor it builds up power and discharges it, it is only 16v so it is very gentle, not like those 1.21gigawatt ones you used to bridge to blow them up 4 a laff :shock:

I fitted the 2 ceramic resistors but you don't need them, you can't use a resistor but on the Ford mini relay there is a resistor which will station the capacitor to 0v but it will do that through the relay coil anyway.

The capacitor works both directions so it is able to recharge both ways, i thought it was like a diode and reversing the power wouldn't work, it does and it warms up (the system is never active long enough to warm it up tho, in fact it isn't on long enough to give the cap full charge and that means it doesn't hold as long as it did on the bench, but it does latch long enough to overcome the wake up for unlocking)


Anyway if you want to copy my setup that's fine.


So you need about 18 inches of cable, i had a length already of 2 core 1.5mm/1.0mm whatever the kids these days use :D
Relay, standard 1 but i used the Ford mini type.
4700uf 16v capacitor, found mine in a car radio along with the ceramic ballast resistors.
1 or 2 ballast resistors just because i had them and felt they might add some sense of added safety to it :lol: 5watt 0.3ohm (no reason for that except they were in with the capacitor so I'll trust Visteon maths ppl.

Door actuator connector unplugs nicely and you can cut wire pin3 15mm from the connector then strip the 2 part wires and join them to each wire you have for the relay coil that has the cap etc on it. It is bidirectional and a solid wire when cut becomes positive and negative (provided you have a load fitted otherwise it becomes a dead short ie removing a light bulb and linking both terminals. In this case there is already a load (door actuator) so connect there.
Male side shown.
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Then the other 2 wires connected to the mirror switch pin 4 and 8.
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I used heat shrink etc to clean up and gaffer tape on the actuator the same as for did
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Hi mate I know it’s been a few years but do I have to make a bridge inside the relay?? Thanks
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Re: Loots Red custom

Postby loot » Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:31 pm

It's all a distant memory for me mate.
This system is the mk1 custom, if yours is the 2018on then I think some chap made it possible through programming.

For all intents and purposes mine basically is a bridge in the mirror folding switch that mimics it being pressed. Then it is connected via a relay to the signal wires in the door actuator. So when you lock the door it activates then when you unlock the door it activates. It changes state in both cases though so you can get it to work backwards.

I made the system fool proof so that it only opened when unlocked and only closed when deadlocked, this meant it wouldn't fold on single lock. Which was perfect but required that I fitted a reed switch and magnet on the mirror and body.

Why Ford couldn't do this all in the first place it's beyond me :roll:

I no longer have the van to hand out remember how I did it sorry.
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65 290 2.2 125ps custom with 2 side doors 8)
07 350 170ps
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Ids map here
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