Installation guide

Installation Guide P. 7
12 YELLOW
(+) Glow-
Plug input
In diesel mode, this positive input will monitor the glow
plug light: it will wait for up to 18 seconds until the
glow-plug light goes out before allowing the system to
proceed to cranking the engine. Connect to the side of
the glow-plug light which is positive when the light is
on.
Note: the system will nevertheless proceed to cranking
the engine if the glow-plug light is still on after the 18-
sec. delay (25 sec. when the run time is set to
30 min.).
A Note About The Diesel Glow-Plug Indicator Light:
(Also known as the “wait-to-start light”.) The purpose of
the glow-plug circuit on diesel vehicles is to pre-heat
the combustion chamber before the vehicle is started.
When a remote starter is installed on a diesel vehicle,
the glow-plug section of the ignition circuit must be
activated and allowed to operate before the vehicle is
remote-started. For that purpose, the glow-plug input
wire of the system must be connected to the glow-plug
indicator light of the vehicle.
Caution! The system will only accept positive glow-
plug input signals; therefore negative glow plugs
should only be connected using relays to invert the
polarity.
A diode must be added between the negative glow-
plug trigger on the relay and the negative glow-plug
wire of the car. This is to prevent feedback effects on
the glow-plug indicator light on the instrument cluster:
the light on the dash would come on because of the
feedback, even though the circuit is off.
When the user remote-starts the vehicle:
• The system will power up the ignition circuit and
wait to engage the starter motor while the glow-
plug indicator light is still on.
• The system will engage the starter motor as soon
as the glow-plug light (+) goes out.
Minimum waiting time is 3 seconds.
Maximum waiting time is 18 seconds.
If no glow-plug wire is found on the vehicle, the glow-
plug input on the system may be “timed out”. The
system will power up the ignition and glow-plug circuits
and simply wait for the time-out before starting:
• Connecting the glow-plug input wire of the system
to ignition will hold the ignition on for the maximum
waiting time (18 sec., recommended).
• Keeping the glow-plug input wire of the system
unconnected will hold the ignition on for the
minimum waiting time (3 sec., not recommended in
very cold environments).