Digital gauge (SPA) with our shutdown module project

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Spend the weekend with the SanJose Cummins gang. Trip to Cummins west, free big C ballcap!! Evening at the mud bogs to watch My6 kick butt. YEE HAA

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MCrossley and I are still working on our module to control the engine shutdown via our SPA digital gauges. We have successfully tested the wiring and are now kitting our first prototype for installation tonight. We are interlocking to the Parking brake to eliminate the circuit during normal driving. We are interlocking to the start command to eliminate the sensitive electronics circuit during the 'stressful' startup period. Still a pretty clean circuit in a smallish box which should be user installable by most anyone with these digital gauges.

Not sure if we will market or just distribute the idea. Primary objective is for us to make it work in our trucks. Secondary considerations will be it's 'marketability' or 'kitability'.

Keep you all posted,
David

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So what have you electronics endowed been up to? Have you gotten the device to work yet?

Am I correct when I say this thing will allow one to remove the key from the ignition, lock the doors, and leave the truck while it continues to run? That the truck will continue to run untill the turbo is cooled to the desired point based on the digital egt guage?

 

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Is this for 12v, over-v, or both?
Is there any digital DNA in this thing?
Tom

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Prototype is built and will have some final wiring touch up over the weekend. MCrossley has the prototype and hopes to show it during May Madness.
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Design of the keyless cooldown kit is based on your owning the SPA digital gauges ( see links on my website). The gauges have an external output which we are using to drive our relay module. (decided against silicon to keep replacement parts easy)

These digital guages will work on anything.

The add on we are building is for the 24v but can easily be modified for any truck as long as you have the wiring diagram.

Our module controls both ignition circuits and provides one auxilary switched output to power your parking lights etc.

The setpoint for shutdown is controlled by programming the guage's output.

The shutdown feature is interlocked to the parking brake and the module has no power during operation of the starter.

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If you have standard gauges, see IISPRO for their turbo saver module. Steve of the great lakes TDR has it and loves it.

David

 

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How does something like this work with an alarm with a starter interupt? Would you just not hook up the interupt, or will this bypass that circuit? Having driven gassers my whole life, I'm just not accustomed to sitting in the truck to wait for the temps to go down. This system sounds like a great convience and time saver.

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Looking foward to meeting you in person, David. I had a nice phone chat with Mike Crossley the other day. See you at May Madness.
Andy

 

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Andy,
Sorry, Mike with have to speak for me. I am back home on the other coast and thus will have to miss MM.

Remember that the IISPRO box will do this for anyone who has normal mechanical gauges. Our box is aimed at the users who will buy the SPA digital guages after seeming them on MCrossley's truck at May Madness!! #ad


As to the alarm, while we have not specifically tested the prototype with Mike's engine running and the alarm set, he does have an alarm and thus we will have that data before long.

This box (and similiar) does not cause the engine to start. It's only function is to keep the engine running after you remove the keys. (better than leaving the truck running with keys as you run in for that morning coffee)

I am adding a command line that will tie into the brake pedal (as most autostarters have). Thus if you (or someone who thinks they can steal your truck) hits the brake pedal, the truck will die. I would hate to have someone with a manual transmission find their truck in the side of the donut shop after someone jumped in and engaged the transmission before realizing that the steering column was locked!!

While we can't predict every possible failure process, we are trying.

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Footnote, at Cummins west told us to run our engines like normal gas engines and just shut them down without a delay. The only time they would not is after a long pull up a steep grade with a load. If this is true, consider our project to be aimed at the more conservative folks that want to keep their truck beyond it's designed lifetime... #ad