remote control convertible top, help! Options

[megason]

Has anyone figured out how to wire your convertible top to be controled by an aux channel on your alarm remote?? I have 2 aux channels and would like one to make all the windows and the top go up and the other to make everything go down. Right now it requires holding down 5 buttons for 10 seconds each with the car on. I'd like to use one button without the car having to be on to do everything as I walk up to the car.

[Hanyo]

you would need a DEI timer to set the duration for the convertable roof motors to stay on and fold the whole roof completely down. But you would also make a device that will unlatch the room.. this is the hard part.

Making the windows roll down/up is the easy part.. any audio shops should be able to do it.

[orvillescelica]

your going to have to come up with a new way to latch and secure the top down. That might be difficult since our tops use the compression from the locks to create a seal. Mabye some sort of screw type system, but i dont know.

other than the locks, everything else is electric. So you would need to wire all those to activate on a reciver in parallel with the existing manual switches.

[madmods]

You could use the DEI 520t for your top and the 530t for your windows. Both units will not need the timer since they will stop automatically when the units complete their travel. It would be good if you were running into a convienant store real quick, and you did not really need the top latched. As far as the top latching, its a strong pull at an akward angle, and to get some door solenoids up there, your going to have factor the size of them and I can tell you its not going to happen. So its possible to do wihut the latching.

[megason]

Thanks for the info. Yeah, I wasn't planning on trying to automate the latches, they are hard enough to do manually. I was just going to leave it unlatched when I'm not parking it very long.