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| 10/15/2007 CLASSIC COMFORT “Merging the past with the present” INTRODUCTION Background Throughout the years, building, customizing, and maintaining classic cars has remained a popular hobby for people of all ages. Some go to great lengths and invest innumerous amounts of time and money into their automobile. Over many years, technology has obviously advanced. The wiring in cars today has greatly improved. Many of these classic car enthusiasts have always wanted the more modern features that are currently limited to cars of today. What is to keep us from going back and updating these features in the cars from the past that people love so dearly Painless Performance approached us with this exact problem. They desired a device which would interface with their wiring harness and allow for an array of modern features to be added. Objective In this project, Rhyvle Technologies will design a device that will utilize both hardware and software to bring the classic car into the present. The device will attach in-line with the wiring harness produced by Painless Performance and allow for features such as headlight and radio delay, daytime drive lights, dome light dimming, as well as adding a kill switch to the car. Painless Performance does not want these new features to cost a fortune and are adamant that the production cost be as low as possible. The price needs to be low enough to be profitable for the company, but affordable for their customers. Justification Painless Performance started out by simply selling the wiring harness and has built their company from this product. Seventeen years later they have a 43,000 square foot facility manufacturing over five hundred different products for show cars. Painless Performance feels that there is a need in the market for a product such as this, and who better to know this market than Painless. The people that love classic cars really do want their vehicles to look like an original classic but they also want some of the new electronic features that are available in most modern cars today. Our product will bring these desired features to the classic car industry while maintaining an affordable price. 1
| 10/15/2007 CLASSIC COMFORT “Merging the past with the present” PROJECT DESIGN Problem Statement Rhyvle Technologies will provide a module which will attach to the current wiring harness produced by Painless Performance; allowing control of certain electrical systems in the car. Functional Requirements Our biggest concern with creating the Classic Comfort module is keeping our costs down. We would like our final prototype to be approximately $150 and a final manufacturing cost of $100. The size of the module should be small enough to allow for it to be easily mounted under the dash of a classic car and be hidden from the consumer. The module must be able to interface with the ignition circuit in order to have an easy access kill switch. When the kill switch is activated, the car will not start. This feature was requested by Painless in order to lower the amount of car thefts on their customers. The radio delay will allow for operation of the radio even after the engine of the car has been turned off. The radio will stay on after the car’s engine has been turned off until the driver-side door has been opened. At this point the system will turn the radio off. The headlight delay will keep the headlights on for a desired period of time after the car has been shut off. This feature is triggered once the engine has been shut off and unlike the radio delay opening or closing the door has no effect on its timing. The dome light dimming process will occur when the engine is off. When any door is opened the dome light will simply come on. When the door is closed the dome light will fade out over a short time period specified by the user. When the engine is running the dome light will operate normally with no dimming. Daytime driving lights will be another feature which will be added on the vehicle. Whenever the engine is turned on the headlights will be turned on automatically. The rear taillights and the illumination in the dash board will not be turned on while the user is driving the car. The taillights and the dash board will turn on when the user turns their car lights on for nighttime driving. If the user simply wants to turn the daytime drive lights off then they can simply switch their lights to the on position, if not already, and then turn them off normally. This will send a signal to our device to turn the daytime driving lights off until the engine is shutoff. 2
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