inMOTION Controls Headlight Doors on Camaro RS...

Hello All,

We have been working with John Parsons of II Much Fabrication on a customer's Camaro RS. John is installing our ISIS Intelligent Multiplex System into Mark Deutsch's car.

As far as builds go, this one is more involved than most. Mark started with a 3-Cell Kit, added another POWERCELL and our new ISIS inMOTION Motor Controller Cell. He has a lot of functions going on in the car including power windows, locks, and headlamp covers. The original OEM covers were vacuum actuated and used a large, complicated mechanism to open and close the doors.

They replaced the OEM doors with a new electric system from Detroit Speed and Engineering. This is a very well engineered and built system that converts the door mechanism to electric actuation, taking out the old vacuum system. This link will take you to the DSE kit.

They give you a controller to drive the electric motors for the headlamp doors, but John used our new inMOTION Motor Controller Cell to drive them directly. You can get more information on our inMOTION Cell at this link.

inMOTION looks and feels like an ISIS POWERCELL. It plugs directly into an existing ISIS system but it brings a ton of new functions to the table. The POWERCELL has 10 outputs that can be turned on and off. It is designed to control things like lights, fans, starter solenoids and other accessories that need to be switched on and off.

There are lots of accessories in the car that need to be turned on and off, but also need to have their polarity reversed. Examples include motors for functions like windows, sun roofs and convertible tops and linear actuators. It can also drive things like solenoids for door locks. The ISIS inMOTION Motor Controller Cell gives you full reversing control over 5 accessories, up to 25-amps each. One powerful feature is that since it seamlessly integrates into an existing ISIS System, you can use any switches that you want to the MASTERCELL to control your windows, locks, actuators or any other thing that needs to forward & reverse.

Another powerful feature of inMOTION is that is has current sensing built into it. When you connect an accessory to it, you train the cell to learn its current profile. This allows it to actively shut down an output if the current flowing exceeds the value that it learned. This allows you to do things like express down on windows. When the window hits the bottom of its travel, the motor stalls, the current flow goes up dramatically and inMOTION shuts off the output when it senses this increase in current flow.

In addition to his windows, John Parson used inMOTION to control the doors for the headlamps. He trained the cell to learn the current profile and was able to eliminate any limit switches for the mechanism. The wires for the door mechanism connect directly to the inMOTION Cell and the inputs connect to the headlight switch. He was able to eliminate the need for the DSE controller.

Check out this video of it working.



Jay