Like I mentioned Earlier ISIS Power makes an Intelligent Multiplex System, which what I gather is a fancy term to say that the wiring harness is distributed throughout the car and not necessarily centralized.
All the switches are connected to the brain which they call the master-cell. The master-cell then sends the commands to the muscle, which they call the power-cells. Usually in a standard configuration there are 2 power-cells and 1 master-cell. This type of wiring solution is more of a computer than a traditional wiring harness in essence. There are additional options that the harness allows for that you could not get away with, or get away with easily in a regular harness.
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| Jay Harris of ISIS Power |
Well the system allows for a greater variety of switches, and what kind of switches you can use...If you even want switches. ISIS has a system known as INTouch which can essentially turn your iPhone or iPad into the switches for your car. And thats just 1 example.
Anyways back to the telephone conversation
Jay and I had a nice chat regarding K.I.T.T and what I had planned for him. What was surprising was how much he knew about the car. When I talked to most people about K.I.T.T their like oh yeah I remember that car. He even knew what the acronym stood for and mentioned it right off the bat, so I was assuming he was a fan. I told Jay that I had already looked at Project Snowball from gmhightechperformance.com and had questions regarding the power windows and headlight motors (because they use polarity shifting in order to reverse motor direction). He gave me 2 solutions to the problem. I knew already about 1 of them but not the other. Naturally, I told him I wanted the solution that gives me more control. Nothing quite playing with K.I.T.T in a parking lot while sitting at a Starbucks having people think that K.I.T.T is real.
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| Master & Power Cells |
I also asked him how easy is it to add additional functions later on, and Jay told me that it was as easy as plug and play, and perhaps a slim, slim chance of a software update to the master-cell.
During the conversation I also had my laptop in front of me and he walked me through a sample of the wiring instructions for a car, which were really straight forward; this color wire goes here, and this plugs into here kinda deal. I'd bet $5 that my mom could figure it out.
At the end of the conversation Jay asked what step of the build I am on, and I am pretty much still in the planning stages, but am really wanting the system.
So now its just a matter of planning, time, and oh yeh that little thing called $$$$.
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