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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 09:08 AM
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Another thing to consider would be placing the switch on your shifter. Then it could easily be hidden and would be right at your fingertips when you need it.

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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 08:01 PM
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Right on, thanks guys for all your help.
The only reason I wanted to try and stay away from the PAC was to keep from having something else under my dash. I already have a lot of components from a data logger (racepak)
Thanks again for all your help
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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 08:03 PM
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I thought about the shifter button as well, but I wanted to do something different.
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Old Sep 3, 2004 | 09:52 PM
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Couldn't the steering wheel be taken apart and a single switch isolated? That is what I would do. Isolate one switch to control the blue wire. Then you can hook the blue wire to a relay. I would send ground through the switch which should be available in the steering wheel.
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Old Sep 4, 2004 | 05:24 PM
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a small pic/atmel chip with a/d could easily decode the signal then output i/o (on/off +5v) to relay sets. This is EE101 kinda stuff. Someone should be able to program it, then you could maybe multiplex two buttons at once to do more tasks.
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Old Sep 6, 2004 | 09:53 AM
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kinda makes me wish I had taken EE101
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