Less and less car manufacturers equip their vehicles with a conventional speed impulse, even though it is absolutely necessary if you want to connect additional elements to the original navigation system.

The original navigation systems receive their speed information from the car’s data systems, in most cases in form of a coded data set transmitted by the CAN bus to all electronic control units. Only the original control units are capable of analysing and transforming the data set, but it is not allowed, or even dangerous, to tap off the speed signal from the control units. The applied signal strength is also too small to ensure the correct operation of the navigation system. It will cause a lot of trouble if the speed impulse is tapped off from the ESP or the ABS, because these systems will be read out as defective during the next car inspection and they will be exchanged. As this is an external mani-pulation and therefore not a part of the warranty-contract it will be very expensive for the customer.

61002 was developed for engine CAN while 61006 and 61007 can be connected at the interior CAN, in general within the radio slot.

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Solution

This problem can be avoided by the CAN bus interface 61002 and 61006.

It is connected parallel to the original CAN bus and so act as a control unit to read out the speed pulses. Because of their high input resistance, they do not influence the original bus system at all. On the output side the interface offer a square speed pulse with a peak voltage of 12V that guarantees a stable supply of the navigation system.

61002 for Motor CAN

At present the interface are suitable for the following types of cars:

• Alfa Romeo: 147, 156
• Audi: A3 3/2003~, A4 2/2001~, A6 07/2001~
• BMW: 3-er (E46), 5-er (E39), X3, X5, Mini, Z4
• Citroen: C2, C3, C3 Pluriel, C5, Xsara (not Picasso)
• Chrysler: C300
• Fiat: Stilo
• Jaguar: X-Type, XK8, XKR, XJ4 12/2001~
  Lancia: Ypsilon 11/03~
• LANDROVER: Freelander bis 2000
• Mercedes Benz: A-,C-,E-,M-,S-Klasse, SLK, CLK, Sprinter, Vaneo, Vito
• Nissan: Interstar, X-Trail
• Peugeot: 206, 206CC, 307, 406, 607, Partner
• Renault: Laguna MK2 03/01~, Megane 09/02~, Scenic mit OBD2
• Rover: 75
• SAAB: 9-5
• Seat: Leon
• Smart: Fortwo, Forfour
• VOLKSWAGEN: Golf 4 /00~, Golf 5, Passat /01~, Sharan TDI, Touareg, Touran

61006 for interior CAN (radio-slot)

• Audi: all with interior CAN-BUS
• BMW: 1er/ Series 1 E81, 5er/ series 5 E60, 7er/ series 7 E65
• Mercedes: A-Klasse W169, C-Klasse W203, CLK W208, W209, E-Klasse W210, W211, SL R230, SLK R171, Viano
• Opel: Astra H, Coras C, Vectra C, all with interior CAN-BUS
• Porsche: Boxster, Cayenne with interior CAN-BUS
• Skoda: all with interior CAN-BUS
  Smart: Forfour
• VW: all with MOST-Quadlock connector with interior CAN-BUS

61007 for interior CAN (radio-slot)

• Alfa Romeo: 147
• Fiat: Stilo
• Ford: Focus C-MAX, Mondeo
• Lancia: Ypsilon 11/03~
• Mazda: 2, 6
• Mercedes: Actros 1846, 1850
• Peugeot: 407
• SAAB: 9-3, 9-5 all with interior CAN-BUS
• Volvo: FH12, FH16, S60, V70, XC90, with interior CAN-BUS

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CAN Bus Interface 2. Generation - Multi talent

Description

Some things repeat: in the middle of the 70ies the car producers usually did not equip their cars with radios. For this reason the customer had to prepare the right mounting place in the cockpit and he had to lay a cable harness to that place. The standardization of the OEM-radios as well as the development of the ISO plug standardization made things quite easier.

Recently we can notice a change here. More and more often face-lifted cars are delivered wich have only one permanent plus and one minus in their radio slot. The ignition, the lighting and the speed-impulse have to be located in the car and laid to the radio by the re-fitter himself. And this is of course as difficult as in the70ies.

To counteract this development the Interface 61010 was produced. Most of the cars have in common that ignition, lighting and speed-impulse are transmitted to the original radio via CAN-bus. The Interface 61010 reads out these information and transforms them into analogue signals. As a result, the customer avoids the time-wasting search and cable-laying in the car.

But the Interface can do even more: not only the usual power connections are converted into an analogue mode, but also the data from the steeringwheel remote control for Becker Traffic + Online Pro, DTM, Monza mp3 and the reverse signal are transformed and put on. In the following cars with interior CAN Bus the Interface can simplify the mounting enormously:

At present the interface are suitable for the following types of cars:

61009 for Interior CAN (radio slot)

61010 for interior CAN (radio slot)

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