Installation guide

LMU-4200™ Hardware and Installation Guide

V1.0.9 November 13, 2010

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2.4.1 Ignition and Inputs

The LMU-4200™ provides up to 4 inputs on its own and up to 7 with the ioPOD. These

inputs are protected from typical vehicle transients and can be directly connected to most

vehicle level logical inputs from 4 volts up to the vehicle power input level (typically 12

VDC). Their input impedance is approximately 10k. One of these inputs is dedicated to

sensing the vehicle’s ignition status to provide for flexible power management. The other

two inputs may be used to sense vehicle inputs such as cooling unit operation, a hidden

driver “Panic” switch, taxi on-duty/off-duty meter status or many others.

The ignition input is pulled to ground through the 10k resistance, where the other inputs can

be configured to be normally High (i.e. pulled to +12v through a 10k resistor) or Low (i.e.

pulled to ground through a 10k resistor). The diagrams below show how to connect the

inputs in both a high- and low-biased configuration: