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Re: rpms drop with headlights off.
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2010, 05:19:24 AM »
My warm idle is 800 RPM and my idle-up is about 900-1,000 RPM.  I was flabbergasted by it at first too when I bought my Tracker (a '90 w/ 1600 8v) because I was unfamiliar with it.  It idles up when I turn on the parking lights (and headlights too) and any heater/AC fan.  All my offroad lights don't activate it, though, so I figured it must be wired only into those select few circuits

I've never looked at the Tracker wiring, but on a Suzuki there's a diode assembly that is wired to specific circuits to form what is known as "wired OR gate", that controls the "idle-up".  Depending on the particular vehicle, I've seen the following circuits wired to it ...

1) - side or park lights
2) - blower fan
3) - rear screen defrost (if ftitted)
4) - electric radiator fan (if fitted)
5) - a/c compressor (if fitted)
6) - power steeting pump (if fitted)

It may seem strange that the side/park lights are catered for, but none of the other lights - however, with the standard wiring, the side/park lights turn on before the headlights and/or any factory fitted auxuliary lights, so if your off-road lights don't activate it, I would suspect they were added later and do not use the side/park light wiring as a control source.

I believe this type of circuit is common on most current vehicles, I've been seeing it on Japanese cars for the past twenty years or so.
'98 SQ420 Grand Vitara
'05 JB420 Grand Vitara
'16 APK416 Vitara
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Re: rpms drop with headlights off.
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2010, 09:07:41 AM »
so if your off-road lights don't activate it, I would suspect they were added later and do not use the side/park light wiring as a control source
Yup, you're exactly right.  They're wired to an auxuliary fuse block I added.  That's how I figured it was wired to only those few circuits...
I've never looked at the Tracker wiring, but on a Suzuki there's a diode assembly that is wired to specific circuits to form what is known as "wired OR gate", that controls the "idle-up".  Depending on the particular vehicle, I've seen the following circuits wired to it ...

1) - side or park lights
2) - blower fan
3) - rear screen defrost (if ftitted)
4) - electric radiator fan (if fitted)
5) - a/c compressor (if fitted)
6) - power steeting pump (if fitted)
Same here.  No powersteering, but all the other 5 are wired into that circuit on mine.
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