Recent content by ZapWizard

Sorry for the late reply...I have bought a PT cruiser. In either case, I haven't had the time to work on this project yet.

Sorry folks, I bought a PT Cruiser...slower but more cargo room for me.

Sorry for late reply. The size of the taps are probably not critical.

I have been gone for quite a while. (Digging up this thread too) I now have a house, and I hope to have more mods soon. I just won a CarPC kit that use's a Mac Mini, so watch for that.

The rain sensor is on my to-do list. I designed the whole circuit, but am re-designing it to allow for a microprocessor controlled circuit, that way you can program sensativity and such. There are several types of rain sensors I plan on testing: Optical sensors -These are used on high-end cars...

Oh, well if you ever wanted to restore this feature, for example selling the car . Or transfering the car to say, Mom or the wife, who doesn't want to mess with the manual settings. It's much easier to just apply solder to bridge the connection, rather then try to replace the whole switch.

http://www.zapwizard.com/Car/air/CircuitBoard-3%5B1%5D.jpg If you follow the guide your are disabling both switches. (The AC switch, and Airflow Switch)

Hmm I will work on these, my first thoughts: Lights turn off when you open and close your door: This can be done with sime single-shot, and self-starting relay wiring. Basicly the relay would be activated by power from the headlights. If the doors are opened, the relay would switch off...

220 should be about right. I will be modding my wife's car with blue LEDs and I may redo the guide with more detail on the general backlighting then.

Are you talking about the blue LED? You still need a resistor for the LED.

PWM won't hurt the electrical system, if the power rails have some caps close to the PWM controller. My guess is also 15 to 20 amps. I am thinking about trying to locate the motor or resistors to be sure. The fuse it runs off of is 40amps though. But lets try to reverse engineer it: Looking...

Yes, you can change the fan speed settings. The fan speed control is a five-way switch. Off-1-2-3-4 It is wired to three resistors that are connected directly to the blower motor. 4 is straight battery to blower to ground. As you turn the speed DOWN (Towards 1) it adds another resitor to the...

I have a 2003 Protege with an Automatic transmission. I really love the Sport Automatic transmission on the Protege5 and M3. Is it possible to convert a Protege to a sport automatic using P5 parts? If so what parts would be involved?

All you should have to do is wire into the courtesy light power, I am not sure where to tap the wire though.

Don't kick it until you try it. If you own a filtered unit, sure it may clean a whole room in 30 minutes, but it's too noisy to run 24 hours. So it may be great for freshing the air before a party. The ionic breeze cleans slowly, but effectivly 24/7 After owning it for over a year I KNOW...