The G120 has 6 digital inputs represented by the following coloured pins in the 24-wire harness.
- Digital Input 1: Pin 16 - Pink
- Digital Input 2: Pin 17 - Blue
- Digital Input 3: Pin 18 - Green/Black
- Digital Input 4: Pin 19 - Brown
- Digital Input 5: Pin 4 - Brown/Blue
- Digital Input 6: Pin 5 - Violet/Red
These inputs can be used to monitor a secondary bit of equipment on an asset, i.e. sprayer, fuel pump, PTO. In most cases we wire and configure the input in the same way as our dedicated ignition input (the white wire in the harness). We consider the input 'ON' when there is a voltage present at the input (a high signal), and 'OFF' when there is no voltage.
Wiring
Connect the G120 ground wire (any black wire) to ground on the asset, and the chosen digital input wire to the high side of the pump/PTO etc. G120 Harness Definition
The Digital Input is considered ON when above 2.4V and OFF when below 2.0V
Parameters
The configuration would be:
- Bias resistor set to 'pull down'
- When not running, there is no voltage present on the input. It is held low.
- The Active Level is set to high
- When running, there is a high voltage signal at the input.
- The digital input is considered on.
- If we want to know in real-time if we are on or off, we should set Upload on Active and Upload on Inactive = Yes.
Further Applications
Once we are tracking the status, we are able to enable further functionality.
We can track the hours that a Digital Input is active in Telematics Guru. See Setting up Secondary Run Hours.