Install InReserve battery monitoring kit - Circuit 1/10

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Major System Category: ISIS Wiring
Task: Interface ISIS inRESERVE module
Parts:

ISIS inRESERVE kit (solenoid, switch, fuses, wires).
Main battery cable

Prerequisite Tasks: N/A
Additional Costs: $205
Power Cell: 1
Circuit: 10 - TAN
Master cell: BLUE/GREEN
Time Requirement: 3 hours
Date Started: April 27, 2013
Date Completed: April 27, 2013

inRESERVE is a battery monitor and kill switch. It monitors battery charge when the car is turned off. Should the battery discharge below a certain point, a solenoid pops and all taps to the battery are killed. As an added level of protection, there is a kill switch that shuts down all power to the car. It seems to me this is also a security feature, because the car can be completely turned off.

This is everything you need for the kit. I found oput I could purchase the cables I needed at Napa Auto Parts, and this proved much easier than fabricating the cable myself.

I mounted the solenoid switch at the center of the front fire wall above the tunnel entrance. Surprisingly, there is plenty of space to work with right here. There are four terminals on the solenoid:

Ground
Kill Switch
Starter/battery
Power cells

This is a nice flat spot about dead on the car's center line to install the inRESERVE module. It allows me to service this from either side of the car.

I ran the ground to the passenger next to where I mounted the horn. I sanded down to bare metal and established a ground point between the horn and the wiper motor. I plan to use this ground point for the horn, wiper motor and inRESERVE solenoid.

This is the driver's side wall next tot he master cylinders and above the steering column. I drilled my hole for the kill switch here. I can access it by reaching over the front tire.

I ran the kill switch lead to the drivers side. I ran the wire around the corner next to the master cylinders and over to the fender wall. I drilled a hole, mounted the kill switch. I put it here, because it allows me to reach through the wheel well over the front tire and toggle the solenoid. The second lead off the switch goes to an inline fuse holder (supplied with the kit). I installed this fuse and ran thee other lead back to the battery terminal.

This is the momentary switch installed. This worked pretty well. You can tighten it down and she should stay put.

The starter/battery terminal handles the following:

Runs the main battery cable from the solenoid to the starter. This takes the battery cable and runs it through the tunnel. There are a lot of things in the tunnel, but I think I am getting to the end.
Runs the battery cable to the battery via a mega fuse,

I remembered I had this piece in the Northern Man Cave. It is pictured here with out the top plate that encloses the evaporator unit or the am from the wiper motor. It is just placed here so I could mount the mega fuse.

The final line sends power to the power and master cells. It does this by running a lead to the mega fuse block for all power cells. It also provides a convenient terminal for taps that go directly to the positive terminal on the battery (e.g. the fused Vintage Air power lead).

This is a top down view of the mega fuse. This sits right behind the master cylinders. For build purposes, i can disconnect the cables form the mega fuse and remove this part.

The lead from the solenoid to the battery is fuses with a mega fuse block. The biggest problem I had was finding some place to put this that could actually be reached in the event it needed maintenance. The main issue is I am running out of flat surfaces to mount stuff like this. It occurred to me that there is a piece that sits above the master cylinder that has a nice flat surface, I mounted the mega fuse here, and I can easily disconnect the cable leads from the mega fuse to remove this piece to get access.