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NGX Configuration Sheet- POWERCELL Outputs

December 2, 2024/0 Comments/in Wiring /by admin

We have completely re-engineered our Infinitybox system to bring the latest in wiring and body control technology to anyone wiring a hot rod, street rod, resto-mod, kit car, race car or Pro-Touring build. We have also re-engineered the NGX configuration sheet for this system. This new configuration sheet format makes it easier to read, gives more detail and gives all of the wire colors needed to connect to your switches and your accessories in your car or truck. This is the standard configuration that comes loaded on all new IPM1 kits. With our inCODE NGX programming tool, you can modify this configuration to meet the needs of your unique project.

This link will take you to the Front Engine configuration for our IPM1 kit. Watch the resources section of our website for other setups including the Rear Engine configuration. This blog post will walk through the details for the POWERCELL output assignments and the outputs on the MASTERCELL NGX. Watch out blog for details on the inMOTION NGX inputs and outputs.

To start, the configuration sheet is broken down into the different cells in the Infinitybox NGX system. This includes the front & rear POWERCELLs and the different inMOTION NGX cells for the doors (driver, passenger, driver rear & passenger rear). Our IPM1 kit comes standard with one MASTERCELL NGX and two of our POWERCELL NGXs. You can add as many inMOTION NGX door modules as you need for your car or truck. Most customers will add 2 or 4 inMOTION MGX modules to their system as accessories depending on if they are working on a 2 or 4 door car. Since the MASTERCELL NGX has low-current outputs to drive indicators on the dash, we added a page that details the wiring for these. Lastly, we added pages that detail all the wires in the MASTERCELL A & B connector harnesses.

For the front & rear POWERCELL pages, we’ve reorganized the columns to make this easier to read. The first column lists the function assigned to each POWERCELL output. This includes things like turn signals, ignition, starter solenoid, lights, cooling fans and fuel pumps. Any output that is labeled as OPEN is an auxiliary. There is no set function assigned to the output. Its corresponding input will turn it on and off.

The next column gives the address of the POWERCELL. By default, the front POWERCELL is addressed as 1 and the rear POWERCELL is addressed as 2.

The next column lists the POWERCELL output by number for the function. There are 10 outputs on a POWERCELL and they are listed in numerical order. Some functions list multiple outputs. Examples include the 4-ways and the One-Button Start. In these cases, the function uses two different outputs. The 4-ways use the left and right turn signal outputs. The One-Button Start function uses the outputs for both the ignition and starter.

The next column gives you the POWERCELL output connector that the output is connected to. The manual for your IPM1 kit has a diagram that identifies the A & B output connectors on the POWERCELL. Please pay attention to this diagram carefully. The A & B connectors are interchangeable on the POWERCELL.

The next column defines the “personality” assigned to the POWERCELL output and its corresponding input. The personality is how the output behaves when it is turned on. The most basic and common personality is “track”. Outputs assigned the track personality turn on when the input is turned on and turn off when the input is turned off. The input tracks the state of its input. You can learn more about the other available personalities by clicking this link.

The next column lists the wire color for each output on the POWERCELL output harness. Please note that the output harness colors for the outputs are the same for the front and rear POWERCELLs. Pay attention to the POWERCELL address to make sure you are connecting to the right output.

The last three columns tell you the details for the MASTERCELL inputs that are controlling each POWERCELL output. The input number, the MASTERCELL connector (A or B) and the wire color are listed.

After the POWERCELL details, the next page details the low-current outputs on the MASTERCELL NGX. These outputs give you easy access to low-current outputs to drive indicators on your dash. There are 8 of these outputs. The first 4 are assigned to the left-turn signal indicator, the right-turn signal indicator, the high-beam indicator and the illumination for your gauges. The next 4 are auxiliary outputs and can be set up as an advanced feature of the MASTERCELL NGX. Contact our tech support team for details.

Watch the blog for more details on our new configuration sheet format and the details for the inMOTION NGX. Click here to contact our tech support team with any questions.

Picture of the Infinitybox 20-Circuit Kit

System Current Draw

April 22, 2021/0 Comments/in Wiring /by admin

When you wire your car or truck with our Infinitybox system, you are adding a powerful electrical management system to your build. We do so much more than a traditional wiring harness. Our system has the power and intelligence to get you modern electrical control of your muscle car, restoration, street-rod, hot-rod, resto-mod, pro-touring car or race car. Your Infinitybox system is awake and alive continuously so that it can respond immediately when you want to start the car, pop your trunk from our inLINK key fobs or control the system from your smart phone.

Wiring your car with the Infinitybox system gets you features that you cannot get from any traditional wiring harness but it does require more care & feeding. Our system does have a parasitic draw on your battery when the car is sitting idle. This is different than a traditional box of fuses and relays that has no active electronics in it. We strongly recommend that you have a way to manage your battery for when you are not driving your car or truck. There are three ways you can do this.

First, we always recommend a disconnect switch at the battery. This is a quick and reliable way to disconnect the battery from your car’s electrical system. This is a good idea for any car, even if you are not using the Infinitybox system to wire your car. Other electronics systems that you add to your car, like electronic fuel injection systems, stereo equipment, will have parasitic draws from the battery. A disconnect will help to keep your battery voltage up when you’re not driving the car.

Second, we always recommend some kind of trickle charger or maintainer for your battery for when your car is sitting idle. This is true for any car, not just cars wired with our Infinitybox system. You have many options for maintainer chargers from brands like Battery Tender, CTEK and Schumacher. Battery maintainers keep your battery voltage at its optimum level when the car is idle. This will dramatically increase the life and reliability of your battery.

Lastly, our Infinitybox system has a unique accessory called inRESERVE. inRESERVE is our active battery management feature. The core of inRESERVE is a special latching solenoid that connects to a POWERCELL output. The Infinitybox system is always watching and monitoring the battery voltage. If the system sees the voltage start to get low, the POWERCELL sends a pulse to the special inRESERVE solenoid and disconnects all of the drain from the battery. We build a lot of safety features into this system. inRESERVE actively does its job if the battery drops below 12.3 volts, with the ignition off and stays at that level for 15 minutes. This video talks through inRESERVE in more detail.

inRESERVE also gets you the disconnect feature that we mentioned in our first point above. You can simply press the button included with your inRESERVE kit to disconnect the battery. This adds a great security feature and lets you shut down power if the car is going to be sitting for extended periods of time.

We get a lot of questions about how much current the different components in the Infinitybox system draw when idle. The MASTERCELL, POWERCELL and inMOTION cell each draw approximately 30 milliamps (0.03 amps) when they are powered up. Adding the inLINK option adds approximately 10 milliamps to the MASTERCELL draw. inVIRONMENT is in the range of 25 milliamps. inTOUCH NET will draw 200 to 250 milliamps.

Please contact our team with any questions about the idle current draw of our Infinitybox system. You can call us directly at (847) 232-1991 or you can click here to contact our team directly.

CAD models are available for our Infinitybox Cells in STEP and IGES

Infinitybox CAD Models

August 28, 2020/0 Comments/in Wiring /by admin

Our customers are a unique breed of builder and fabricator. They wire their cars and trucks with our Infinitybox system for a lot of different reasons. To start, our system lets them simplify their wiring. More importantly, our customers want more than just a plain, basic electrical system. They want the same electrical features in their project that they have in their new, daily driver. Our Infinitybox system lets them do that. Since our customers are tinkers, makers and builders, they are using the latest solid modeling technology to virtually mock up their cars and trucks to make the project go more smoothly. We get a lot of requests for CAD models for our cells, so we’ve made them available to our customers.

The introduction of on-line CAD tools like Audodesk’s Fusion 360 gives anyone in their garage access to very powerful and intuitive solid modeling tools. You can import the CAD models for the Infinitybox MASTERCELL, POWERCELL and inMOTION cells into your projects. You can check fitment, verify wire routing and make sure that you can access the cells, all in the computer before you cut any metal.

We have the solid models for the MASTERCELL, POWERCELL and inMOTION cells available in STEP and IGES formats. Click on this link to contact our technical support team and we will send you the models.

Outline dimensions for the Infinitybox MASTERCELL

Infinitybox Cell Outline Drawings

February 17, 2020/0 Comments/in Wiring /by admin

This blog post has the outline drawings for our Infinitybox MASTERCELL, POWERCELL and inMOTION Cell. You can use these drawings to plan the layout of these cells in your car or truck project. All of the dimensions on these drawings are in inches.

The basic footprint for the MASTERCELL, POWERCELL and inMOTION cell is exactly the same. The mounting tabs for all three cells are identical. The holes in the mounting tabs are designed for a 1/4″ X 5/8″ shoulder bolt.

Outline dimensions for the Infinitybox MASTERCELL

Outline dimensions for the Infinitybox POWERCELL

Outline dimensions for the Infinitybox inMOTION Cell

You can download PDF versions of these drawings at these links.

MASTERCELL

POWERCELL

inMOTION Cell

Click on this link to contact our technical support team if you have any additional questions about our Infinitybox system.

inMOTION Video

December 12, 2019/0 Comments/in Wiring /by admin

We just released a new video that covers the features and benefits of our inMOTION Motor Controller Cell.

The Infinitybox inMOTION Cell

inMOTION is a unique module that connects to the CAN network of your 20-Circuit Kit. It looks like a POWERCELL but acts differently. Instead of turning 10 things on and off like a POWERCELL, it reverses the polarity to 5 things. We originally designed inMOTION to control power windows and power lock actuators. Instead of relying on a switch, inMOTION has special h-bridge relays that reverse the polarity. This lets you change direction of things like power windows, power locks, linear actuators and valves.

That is just the beginning. inMOTION is smarter than a POWERCELL which means that you can get express features on your windows with no limit switches. You can also get wireless control through inLINK or a smart phone attached to inTOUCH NET.

Check out this video for a deeper dive into what inMOTION can do.

We have the solid model for the inMOTION cell available to our customers to help with their planning and mocking up process.

Click on this link to get in touch with our team with questions.

Updating inMOTION

October 11, 2016/0 Comments/in Software /by admin

One of the advantages of our Infinitybox system is that it can always be updated. We have added a lot of new features and functions over the years. The earliest systems that we sold can be updated to use these new features. In some cases, these updates require a simple hardware change that we need to do here. In the majority of these changes, it is a simple software update that can be done in your shop, garage or in the vehicle in the field. Most of the changes are done to the MASTERCELL but in some cases, the POWERCELLs and inMOTION cells need to be updated. This post is going to talk about updating inMOTION.

Before you get too far, 99.99% of our customers will never need to update inMOTION in the field. This blog post is intended to have this documented for the 0.01% of them that will. The only reason why you’d need to update inMOTION would be if we have created something custom for you in terms of the current levels for the express functions. In the overwhelming majority of cases, you can stop reading here. You need to do nothing with the code on your inMOTION unless explicitly directed by one of our technical support engineers.

inMOTION is different from a POWERCELL in a few ways. inMOTION uses special polarity reversing relays instead of MOSFETs. Also, inMOTION monitors the current flowing to the loads that it is powering. inMOTION is always comparing the actual current to a learned value. If the actual current exceeds the learned value, it shuts the output off. One of the last steps of setting up inMOTION is to train it. This is detailed in the instruction manual for inMOTION. When you update inMOTION, there are a few extra steps that you need to follow because of the current monitoring and the way inMOTION learns its current draw.

Our technical support team will let you know what cells in your system will need to be updated if we are changing the way your system operates. If you are told to update inMOTION, we will email you a new file. Please follow these steps when updating inMOTION.

Power down the entire system.
Disconnect CAN cable and output harnesses from the inMOTION cell (just leave the power connectors)
Unlike the other cells, the inMOTION cell needs power to program it, so power up the 12V feed to the cell.
Connect the programmer to the inMOTION cell and browse for the inMOTION file
Click program and wait for programmer to finish.
Once the programming is complete, remove the programmer and the blue LED on the inMOTION cell should be blinking quickly. Stop here if the Blue LED is not flashing quickly.
Remove power from the system and re-connect the CAN cable to the inMOTION (do not reconnect any motor loads yet)
Power up the entire system, wait about 10 seconds
Press and hold the train button (S11) on the inMOTION cell until the blue LED is on steady and then release. This process nulls out the current sensors in the system.
Wait for the inMOTION to cycle all of the relays.
Leaving the power on, reconnect the motor loads to the cell. The blue LED should be doing a double flash heartbeat.
Position the motors to the middle of their travel using the manual buttons on the inMOTION cell.
Press and hold the train button (S11) until the blue LED is on steady and then release. The inMOTION will cycle all of the motors and learn the current profiles.
The blue LED should have the regular heartbeat now and everything should be ready to go.

Click on this link to contact our technical support team with any questions about updating inMOTION.

Central Locking

September 27, 2016/0 Comments/in Wiring /by admin

We created our inMOTION cell about 6 years ago to handle things that need to change direction. From any MASTERCELL input, you can control power windows, lock actuators, exhaust cut-outs and other linear actuators. What makes inMOTION unique is the fact that it changes polarity from within the cell. This means that you don’t need special relays to change the polarity of the current flowing to your window motors or lock actuators. inMOTION does that for you. You can also control any of the inMOTION outputs from our inLINK key fobs and any smart device through inTOUCH NET. This post is going to show you how to wire lock actuators with Central Locking to the MASTERCELL and inMOTION cell.

There are lots of ways to control door lock actuators. In most cases, our customers want to unlock their doors when they disable security from their inLINK key fobs. That’s easy. From the inside of the car, they usually want switches that lock and unlock the doors. That’s easy. Another way to handle this is to use the central locking feature built into the MES 5-Wire Door Lock Actuator. Our good friends at Electric-Life sell these. You can see them at this link.

These lock actuators do two things. First, they lock and unlock the doors. That’s pretty basic. They also have switches built into them to control central locking. When you pull up on the door lock knob, it pulls on the lock actuator mechanism and closes a switch internally. This switch sends a signal to the Infinitybox MASTERCELL to pulse the lock output on inMOTION to unlock the rest of the doors. Pushing down on this same door lock knob closes another switch inside the actuator that closes a second switch. This second switch is connected to another MASTERCELL input that sends a signal to inMOTION to lock the doors. Take a look at this wiring diagram.

Image of Infinitybox wiring diagram showing how to wire 5-wire lock actuators

There are a few things to consider when using these lock actuators.

Check the wiring diagrams that come with the actuators to confirm the wire colors in our drawing.
Depending on how you have the actuators oriented in the car, you may have to change the wiring for the inMOTION outputs and the central locking switches. You want the up and down directions to be the same on all actuators and you want the lock switches all in the same direction. Check to make sure everything is working correctly before you finalize you wiring connections.
You must properly adjust the linkage for the lock mechanism so that you can get full range on the actuator plungers when you pull up and push down on the lock knob.
Make sure that you train the inMOTION cell correctly. Follow the instructions that came with your inMOTION kit.

You can download a PDF of this wiring diagram by clicking this link.

Click here to contact our technical support team with any questions about wiring central locking with our Infinitybox system.

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