Hooked up Crimestopper LC4, EVO-ALL no longer responsive

Question

Hey all,

I have a 2008 Dodge Ram. I had an EVO-ALL and CHRT5 T-harness installed and working for a few weeks as a stand-alone. I then added a Crimestopper LC4 wired through as a DataLink connection. I followed the diagram exactly, connecting the constant 12V and the ignition wires, as well as one other wire that was required for my application (purple wire from T-harness to green/red from EVO-ALL 20-pin). Those two were actually necessary for the stand-alone function so they were done anyway.

I got the Crimestopper working, it would unlock and lock my doors and start the truck, but then shut the truck off after about 5 seconds. I called Fortin to ask about this and was told to re-flash the EVO-ALL and take it out of stand alone mode because the wiring differences made it so that the EVo now saw the hood pin circuit showing an open hood, which shut the truck down. Made sense to me! I changed the EVO-ALL flash programming and turned off D1, stand alone mode.

Hooked it back up (reporgrammed the EVO-ALL to the truck just to be sure) and now the EVO-ALL is totally non-responsive. Even when locking/unlocking the truck with the OEM remote, no orange light on theEVO (which it did before). When I press the lock and unlock buttons on the Crimestopper, I hear the Crimestopper unit clicking and the LED is blinking like it should, it's trying to tell the EVO what to do but the EVO isn't listening.

Fortin tried telling me that I needed to do more to connect the Crimestopper but that's not correct. It should work just the way I have it, through the Data Link. The EVO has power, if I go thorugh the programming sequence the blue light comes on and blinks when it should...I can program it to the truck just fine. It's just not seeing the Crimestopper anymore! I'm thinking of changing it back to stand-alone and just grounding the hoodpin wire to see if I can get it to work that way.

I ran out of time today to mess with it anymore, but I am beyond frustrated.

My question is, should I go in and adjust anything in the EVO-ALL programming? Does anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

http://fortin.ca/download/28831/evo-all_evochrt5_o20150216.pdf

You should be following connection A in this guide. (if using data-link)

Also if you are using the 4 pin datalink ensure that both modules are in the same protocol.

Also what is the service number to the module? I want to ensure you have turned off option D1.

Comments

001A06 584675

Option D1 is off. All that's on are F2 and A1-A11, and that is per someone I talked to at Fortin. The crimestopper initially would lock/unlock the doors and start the truck when I had D1 enabled. The truck would shut off after 5 seconds. I was told by Fortin to take it out of D1. I did. I plugged it all back and, reporgrammed the EVO-ALL to my truck (the solid blue, plug stuff in, key on, blinking blue, shut off key and press lock sequence - I did this with the Crimestopper still plugged in by accident).

Now the Crimestopper clicks when I pres lock and unlock like it's trying to do the right things, but the EVO lights are all off no matter what I do (Crimestopper or OEM remote) and the Crimestopper won't respond to "start engine" commands from it's own remotes.

Something has gone terribly wrong. I'm not really blaming the EVO here.

Answer 2

Adding the LC4 really doesnt require much. 12V, Ground and Ignition along with the datalink cable plugged into the LC4. Since it's currently in datalink, make sure the LC4 setting for the datalink protocol is set to Fortin.

Try this..

• Reset the EVO
• Reprogram EVO to vehicle
• Dont change any options in the evo and test it out.
• Test it out.
• If it still no work, enable option F2 in the EVO and enable the ADS datalink protocol in the LC4 settings.
• Test it out

 

The blue led on the evo should flash when pressing lock-unlock on either oem remote or aftermarket remote, you can use this to see if the evo is actually responding to commands or not.

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If you still have issue with the unit powering up after this, I would suggest powering 12V and ground from the remote starter to a different source then what we say in Connection A. It is possible that the LC4 cannot power itself completely from the datalink connector which is what we assume would work.

Comments

reset procedure: http://wirecolor.com/en/qa/50193/faq-how-do-i-reset-my-evo-all?show=50193#q50193