invisicord install on 2010 ss/tc
Guidelines on Using a Voltmeter to Locate Power and Ground
- First set your voltmeter to the continuity setting (should beep when you touch the red and black probes together, telling you they are shorted)
- Find a ground on the car somewhere, like a bolt under the dash, or a metal cross member.
- Put the black probe on that ground, and touch the back of each exposed wire connector in the mirror harness with the red probe.
- For each wire that beeps, that means that wire is grounded. Turn the inition to the on position, then back to off, and make sure it beeps regardless of ignition position.
- Put the voltmeter into VDC mode, to measure DC volts, turn the ignition to the on position.
- Put the black probe on the ground wire found in #4.
- Touch each of the wires in that harness with the red probe, and note which one(s) gives you +12-14 volts, turn the ignition off to verify that the volt readings go down to zero or close to zero.
-That should define which two ports in that harness into which you would plug the Invisicord, the black Invisicord heat shrink connector into #4 above, and the yellow to #7.
- First set your voltmeter to the continuity setting (should beep when you touch the red and black probes together, telling you they are shorted)
- Find a ground on the car somewhere, like a bolt under the dash, or a metal cross member.
- Put the black probe on that ground, and touch the back of each exposed wire connector in the mirror harness with the red probe.
- For each wire that beeps, that means that wire is grounded. Turn the inition to the on position, then back to off, and make sure it beeps regardless of ignition position.
- Put the voltmeter into VDC mode, to measure DC volts, turn the ignition to the on position.
- Put the black probe on the ground wire found in #4.
- Touch each of the wires in that harness with the red probe, and note which one(s) gives you +12-14 volts, turn the ignition off to verify that the volt readings go down to zero or close to zero.
-That should define which two ports in that harness into which you would plug the Invisicord, the black Invisicord heat shrink connector into #4 above, and the yellow to #7.
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ok thanks. I was trying to take the lazy way out and see if anyone had installed one yet that could tell me which ones to use. Guess I'll have to mess with it tomorrow.
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In case anyone goes to search this, this was my finding:
According to the manual the power going to the mirror (09 Cobalt) is only 10v. I then confirmed this with a multimeter. I emailed invisicord with my findings and they confirmed this will not work (at least with an Escort 9500ix), and said I could get a longer one to run somewhere else, so tonight I stopped and picked of a smartcord to wire to the fuse panel.
According to the manual the power going to the mirror (09 Cobalt) is only 10v. I then confirmed this with a multimeter. I emailed invisicord with my findings and they confirmed this will not work (at least with an Escort 9500ix), and said I could get a longer one to run somewhere else, so tonight I stopped and picked of a smartcord to wire to the fuse panel.
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