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Old Apr 28, 2011 | 02:41 PM
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Old Apr 28, 2011 | 05:02 PM
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Believe it or not, I was working on the CAN product in 1998 on transit busses. You know, those big mobile people movers in the city. It's a simple input/output signal or I/O technology.
You press a button for a function to happen; say the horn. The BCM receives the signal from the button, understands what the signal means, and sends a voltage signal to the horn....which will blow but no car will hear.
 
Old Apr 28, 2011 | 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by fairfax1000
Believe it or not, I was working on the CAN product in 1998 on transit busses. You know, those big mobile people movers in the city. It's a simple input/output signal or I/O technology.
You press a button for a function to happen; say the horn. The BCM receives the signal from the button, understands what the signal means, and sends a voltage signal to the horn....which will blow but no car will hear.
I agree it is a simple system (if you understand it first) but what I was saying they do not like to be modified greatly someone lengthening the wires with butt splices and different gauge wire can mess the inputs and outputs up greatly.
 
Old Apr 28, 2011 | 05:28 PM
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putting a CAN system on a bike is rediculous.. i don't need a computer to ground a horn relay when the horn button already does that direct to the relay.

i had a car come out of the body shop that wouldn't start, the immobilizer system light was flashing and no odometer display.. well after about 3 days or tracing wires, checking voltages, some reading in millivolts.. it came down to a cascading failure.. when the harness was damaged in the accident, it took out the PCM, the harness and Cluster.. what a cluster F... it cost well over 3G buy the time it was all done..
 
Old Apr 28, 2011 | 05:35 PM
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Very cool. Never knew some Harleys came with iPod Nanos.
 
Old Apr 28, 2011 | 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by FroggyFatBoy
putting a CAN system on a bike is rediculous.. i don't need a computer to ground a horn relay when the horn button already does that direct to the relay.

i had a car come out of the body shop that wouldn't start, the immobilizer system light was flashing and no odometer display.. well after about 3 days or tracing wires, checking voltages, some reading in millivolts.. it came down to a cascading failure.. when the harness was damaged in the accident, it took out the PCM, the harness and Cluster.. what a cluster F... it cost well over 3G buy the time it was all done..
Yup and you can have the same cascading effect by having a voltage drop across a bad splice.
 
Old Apr 28, 2011 | 05:48 PM
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i never checked, do you know if my 07 FB has the CAN system ?
 
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