[fyrebird68]

When I first cooked up this mod I experienced the same problem.

The picture below (clip from the TA wiring diagram) carries important information.

The input to turn the lights on and off needs to provide voltage for ON and ground for OFF. Simply floating or disconnecting the input will not close the doors.

[torqhead]

Originally Posted by fyrebird68

When I first cooked up this mod I experienced the same problem.

The picture below (clip from the TA wiring diagram) carries important information.

The input to turn the lights on and off needs to provide voltage for ON and ground for OFF. Simply floating or disconnecting the input will not close the doors.

Bob, That's a huge piece of information!!! That's got to be the problem, glad I posted my question here. Hope it helps someone else too in the future. Thanks, Dave

[fyrebird68]

Joel mentioned he couldn't find a diagram of the board, so I'll post this one. The scribbles are what I did to make the board work in the GTO.

[Joel Koontz]

I just checked my car and the wires to the control module are connected as I described in post #44.

The 2 Orange wires connect through seperate 15 Amp Fuses to the battery(constant +12V)
The Black wire connects to ground.

The Yellow and Brown wires are connected together and then connect to the wire that feeds the Low Beam Headlights +12V when the lights are switched on. I think this wire also provides the ground(through the headlight filaments) when the headlight switch is off.

Bob, what do you have the module's Yellow and Brown wires to connected to on your car?

[fyrebird68]

Originally Posted by Joel Koontz

I just checked my car and the wires to the control module are connected as I described in post #44.

The 2 Orange wires connect through seperate 15 Amp Fuses to the battery(constant +12V)
The Black wire connects to ground.

The Yellow and Brown wires are connected together and then connect to the wire that feeds the Low Beam Headlights +12V when the lights are switched on. I think this wire also provides the ground (through the headlight filaments) when the headlight switch is off.

Bob, what do you have the module's Yellow and Brown wires to connected to on your car?

The yellow and brown wires are connected to each other and to the common side of the headlight dimmer switch (where the 12v from the headlight switch connects).

If you turn the headlights off (and the doors don't close) try grounding this wire. If the doors then close, you just need a better ground for the module to sense. You may try putting a resistor at this point on the controller box, tied to ground. Try a 1Kohm, 1W resistor.

[torqhead]

I posted this in the body section, anyone seen this issue before?

http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=693335

[torqhead]

I've seen in other post where comments were made about how fast these motors open and close the hideaway assembly. I too thought it was a little aggressive, so I searched out and got some feedback from George that's here on the board that seems to have a lot of knowledge.

I pulled some tests and my results were if you want to slow down the motors you will need to install 6 ohms (5 ohm and 1 ohm) worth of resistance into one of the wires that go from the control box to the motor. I used the green wire on each, but it shouldn't matter which one you use. I also used resistors that were rated for 10 watts. This made a significant difference in the speed. In my case if I went higher than 6 ohms the motors wouldn't run.