Update on ISIS Power Install on F100...

Hey Guys,

We've been pretty busy with things in the office so I wanted to get out an update on what's happening on our ISIS install in our F100 Panel Truck. 

We replaced the entire wiring harness in the truck about a month ago.  ISIS is controling the headlights, high-beams, turn-signals, parking lights, wipers, ignition and the starter solenoid.  We have been taking the truck with this set up around to local customers, with a great response. 

There is a POWERCELL on the inside of the front, passenger fender wall, right under the hood.  This is powering the ignition, starter, headlights, high-beams, horn and turn-signals.  The longest piece of wire that we have coming off of that cell goes from the fender to the headlights.  It is much cleaner than what was in there before.  We left two outputs open on the front POWERCELL so that we can wire the electric cooling fan and the electric water pump when we are ready. 

There is another POWERCELL in the rear of the truck, behind the big barn doors at floor level.  The turn-signals, parking lights and brake lights are coming off of that POWERCELL.  The only cables that run to it from the front of the truck are two 8-AWG cables carrying fused primary power from the battery and the CAN cable that is routed up through the interior to the MASTERCELL.  We left outputs open for back-up lights, an electric fuel pump and audio.  We'll be adding these over the next few months as we prepare to take this truck to the 2011 SEMA Show in Las Vegas. 

The best part about adding these extra functions to the system, whether on the front or rear POWERCELL, is that everything is there to do it.  We don't need to pull any more wire through the truck.  We connect the open POWERCELL output to the function and connect a switch to the input on the MASTERCELL.  That couldn't easier. 

We mounted the MASTERCELL right on the console that holds the shifter.  We wanted it accessable and easy for anyone to see.  From there, the input wires lead to the switches on the dash.  Most of these input wires are less than 3 feet long. 

Right now, we're in the middle of installing power windows and door poppers.  We're using the Electric-Life EL1000 SUPER STREET FLAT GLASS KIT and their 45-pound door solenoids and their new Door Jammers.  This part of the install was very straight forward.  We have tons of pictures and videos that we'll get up on the website and this blog.  Both the windows and the door solenoids are wired into our inMOTION Cell mounted behind the console holding the shifter. 

Over the next few weeks, we are going to be adding our inTOUCH MAX screen to the dash to eliminate all of the switches, including the ones wired to the windows and door poppers.  Since we're doing that, we are going to be using inTOUCH Mobile and my iPhone to control the windows and door poppers.  It is really easy to do.  From my phone, I'll be able to pop the doors remotely and roll the windows up and down, including express down. 

In parallel with all of this, we're starting to install all of our Heidts suspension hardware on the new chassis for the truck. 

We have tons of pictures and video that need to be cleaned up and posted to show you our progress and how we did all it.  Keep checking the blog to see more.

Jay