Hand held or box style shifting

LSXCutty · Post by **LSXCutty** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 11:17 am

Does anyone make a box style shifting box? Like a paddle shifter but in a smaller package.

dontz125 · Post by **dontz125** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 3:03 pm

Can you give more details? You mean a push-button unit?

LSXCutty · Post by **LSXCutty** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 3:49 pm

Ya push button. Something not so obvious in the car.

LSXCutty · Post by **LSXCutty** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 6:38 am

I guess there is nothing out there?

Matt Cramer · Post by **Matt Cramer** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 7:51 am

The first thing that comes to mind is using horn buttons on the steering wheel - or, if appropriate for your car, a steering wheel with built in stereo controls. Nobody would suspect a "seek" button of controlling the transmission!

LSXCutty · Post by **LSXCutty** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 8:43 am

Matt that would be awesome. Its a 87 cutlass it does have 3 horn button. One on each side and the padded one in the center but all wired thru the single wire. So I was more or less thinking of some sort of box that could be brought up between the bench seat. Also when will the DIY 4l80 micro be out?

Matt Cramer · Post by **Matt Cramer** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 9:42 am

I'd get some sort of project box from DigiKey and slap a couple buttons on it, in that case.

We're currently testing a prototype 4L80E harness on an ex-Stanley Steamer van and will release it for production as soon as we confirm everything is working.

LSXCutty · Post by **LSXCutty** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 9:58 am

I'd have to make sort sort of circuit inside it though right? From the very little I have read so far using a micro to control the paddle shifting. It looks for a voltage between 0-5v for downshift and a different voltage for up shift. Does this all connect to the micro thru a single wire?

Matt Cramer · Post by **Matt Cramer** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:48 am

Yes - you'd just need a few resistors in the box.

LSXCutty · Post by **LSXCutty** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:34 am

I wish I could think of a way to get power into the steering wheel so i could use the two horn buttons

Raymond_B · Post by **Raymond_B** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 3:30 am

Later model steering wheel?

joshnotguru · Post by **joshnotguru** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 5:35 am

i think you should be able to use a voltage divisor type system to send a varying resistance to a voltage measuring circuit with a pull up, not sure whether youd need to invert this signal then or not, id have to read up on it,

just throwing ideas around

LSXCutty · Post by **LSXCutty** » Mon Jul 11, 2016 7:06 pm

Well it's a single wire for ground that runs thru the column. Because there is no clock spring.

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