I removed the passenger side airbag and to try and get the light out i soldered a 10ohm resistor inline. Ive heard of ppl using 8,10 and 2 ohm resistors and them working. However I cant get this light off. I tried reseting the light using this procedure:

http://www.geocities.com/myintegra96/srs.html

The light blinked twice saying that i did the reset procedure correctly but the light wont go out.

This is on a 98 prelude SH.

 

So I'm assuming this means you have no passenger airbag?

Remove your gauge cluster, there's a yellow plug that goes into the gauge cluster. Unplug the yellow plug and leave it hanging, the light won't come on again.

 

yes but will that affect my driver side airbag ? I still have the factory steering wheel in the car but no passenger seats. I want the driver side airbag to work as long as its in the car.

I know which plug your talking about though.

 

Well I have news for you then. If you want your driver side airbag to work then you have to fix the passenger side. As long as there is a fault in the SRS system it won't fire any airbag. so just go ahead and pull the light if your don't want to see it. It's not like the driver side works anyway.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Ryan#1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Well I have news for you then. If you want your driver side airbag to work then you have to fix the passenger side. As long as there is a fault in the SRS system it won't fire any airbag. so just go ahead and pull the light if your don't want to see it. It's not like the driver side works anyway.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yea i know that man thats why im doing this.

 

sooo did it ever occure to you that maybe, justttt maybe the srs light was coming back on because the fact you have a airbag missing? how do you expect to reset something that isnt yet fixed?

 

do u have any idea what I am trying to accomplish by using a resistor, did you even read the post ? Please dont post if your not contributing anything useful.

 

I thought you were just trying to get rid of the light. My apologies for being a moron and not reading the question all the way through. I'll try to dig through the Honda wiring diagrams on Monday to find out the resistance that the passenger air bag puts out so that you can wire a resistor in.

Oh, and don't sweat the other posts in here, I'm sure they're idiots just like me who didn't read carefully.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by slomofo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I thought you were just trying to get rid of the light. My apologies for being a moron and not reading the question all the way through. I'll try to dig through the Honda wiring diagrams on Monday to find out the resistance that the passenger air bag puts out so that you can wire a resistor in.

Oh, and don't sweat the other posts in here, I'm sure they're idiots just like me who didn't read carefully. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Im sorry if you took that to heart, it wasnt ment to be directed towards you. I was only refering to the people on here that made posts that were in my opinion very sarcastic and rude. Im not sure if they were kidding or what but the fact remains that they didnt understand what I was doing.

About digging through the diagrams, I have checked on ISIS and didnt see anything stating resistance but Ill give it another shot. I wish i could just put my multimeter on my airbag and check that bitch, but that probably wouldnt end well.

 

Well I had no problems understanding by the 3rd post and couldn't believe the crap that was coming after scrolling thru replies haha.

Wiring diagrams wouldn't show load resistances, you would have to get that from the air bag manufacturer's spec sheet which you aren't going to get.

If it were me, I would just measure it with a multimeter. I'm pretty sure that the voltage across a multimeter in resistance measurement mode is tiny. And the actuation voltage is at least 12V. But of course, it's your *** and not mine

You could measure the voltage across the multimeter in ohm mode wit a multimeter in volt mode

Or attach a long run of wire from the connector and measure from a safe distance, but that will give you a bit of error esp. if you use smaller than 18 ga.

 

that was the issue, a multimeter sends current through the wire to measure the resistance, i guess it uses an output and whatever it measures on the other side of the load it will calculate using ohms law what the resistance is.

Are you sure the airbag runs on a 12v ciruit ? Ive seen ppl set them off with cell phone batteries which i dont believe are 12v.

I have another idea though, I know of a few hondas at the junk yard with deployed airbags. Would it still measure the resistance accurately or would it be an open circuit now that its deployed ? I would imagine that all hondas would be in the same range if measured, can anyone confirm that ?

 

No I'm not sure, It's probably less than 12V, yes. I still would bet money a multimeter wouldn't come close to deploying it. But that doesn't mean you should do it. Or again use a length of wire to do it from a safe distance. You can actually pretty easily account for the resistance of the wire if you have to use small stuff. Simple equation for that.

Measuring an already deployed bag = worth a shot.

 

what you need is a 2 ohm resistor...just hook it up on the connector this will trick the srs unit thinking it has an airbag hooked up...and yes it does use 12v to blow up the bags!!hope this helps..

 

i checked at radio shack and they didnt have a 2 ohm resistor... i believe 10 ohms was the lowest they had. Most of them were much much higher resistance. Where should i go to find this ?

 

Radio Shack has sucked for the last 10 years.

If you don't have another electronics hobby store (are there any left?) You can put five 10 ohm resistors in parallel, or source one from something you already have, like a shunt resistor out of an old TV powers supply (usually a big white one).

Or maybe better, if you can find a low-resistance potentiometer, you can experiment and find out exactly what resistance range works, come back and tell us, and have your good work forever on the world wide of web.

 

if u work for honda or know someone (like me) just take one of the special tools for srs diagnostics those are 2 ohm test connectors and it plugs right in to your exsting connectors too!! LOL