Directed Electronics Automate 552 User Manual
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© 1999 Directed Electronics, Inc. Vista, CA
table of contents
What Is Included . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Warning! Safety First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Installation Points to Remember . . . . . . . . . . 5
Deciding On Component Locations . . . . . . . . . 5
Control Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Valet®/Program Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Status LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Starter Kill Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Finding The Wires You Need. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Obtaining Constant 12V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
12V Switched Ignition Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Starter Wire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
(+/-) Parking Light Wire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Accessory Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Tachometer Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Wait-To-Start Bulb Wire For Diesels . . . . . . . 10
Wiring the Control Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Wiring Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Primary Harness (H1) Wiring Diagram . . . . . 11
Remote Start Ribbon Harness Wiring Diagram . 11
Heavy Gauge Relay Satellite Wiring Diagram . 12
(H2) Harness Auxiliary Connector
Wiring Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Remote Start Harness (H3) Wiring Diagram. . 12
Wire Connection Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Primary Harness (H1), 8-Pin Connector . . . . 13
Relay Satellite Key Switch Interface . . . . . . 16
Harness 2 (H2), 2-Pin Auxiliary Plug . . . . . . 17
Remote Start Harness (H3) . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Neutral Safety Switch Interface . . . . . . . . . . 20
General Motors Trucks, SUVs, and Column
Shifting Passenger Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Pre-1996 Dodge Dakota Pickups with
2.5 Liter Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Plug-in LED and Valet®/Program Switch . . . . . 23
Harness 4, (+/-) Door Lock Outputs . . . . . . . 23
Type A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Type B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Type C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Type D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Type E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Type F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Internal Programming Jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Light Flash Jumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Digital Tach Threshold On/Off . . . . . . . . . . 29
Transmitter/Receiver Learn Routine. . . . . . . . 30
Tach Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Operating-Settings Learn Routine . . . . . . . . . 32
To Program the Learn Routine . . . . . . . . . . 33
To Exit the Learn Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Feature Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Menu #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Menu #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Feature Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Menu #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Menu #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Shutdown Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
To Enter Diagnostic Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Valet® Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
To Enter or Exit Valet Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Timer Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
To Enter or Exit Timer Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 39
To Exit Timer Mode Manually . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Safety Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Bitwriter™, Code Hopping™, DEI®, Doubleguard®, ESP™, FailSafe®, Ghost Switch™, Learn
Routine™, Nite-Lite®, Nuisance Prevention Circuitry®, NPC®, Revenger®, Silent Mode™, Soft Chirp®,
Stinger®, Valet®, Vehicle Recovery System®, VRS®, and Warn Away® are all Trademarks or Registered
Trademarks of Directed Electronics, Inc.