Hacking and overclocking a BMW "ioniser". (Not recommended)

[@danwoodward23]

I have no idea what any of this stuff is. I just watch because he relaxes me

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker]

Hahaha! I just rewound and watched this again about four times. The first three I was using it to help me catch a nap. Now I’m actually watching it for real. 😂

[@zachbruner481]

Who doesn’t like the spicy one

[@cfunkbooya]

Its called stem fields for a reason. Maby you should take up electronics rasberry pi is a good place to start.

[@MadScientist267]

In this particular case, yet another useless module for an overpriced car; at best an excuse to jack the price of the car by 500 bucks at the lot.

[@blackferrets820]

Me too

[@barryhernandez6428]

This guy can analyze/ reverse engineer/figure out anything. And make it interesting and entertaining to boot! Gotta love it!👍 A Man's Man of technology 🤜🤛

[@aspudkicker]

Chinese replacement parts dont need to tell the car to tell you theres a fault, you know automatically due to the flames appearing.

[@CoralsAustralia]

please dont be racist towards china

[@vincentlamb3436]

@@CoralsAustralia Made in China has nothing to do with racism, people are tired of making the Chinese rich off of buying their cheaply made crap.

[@grn1]

@@vincentlamb3436 Agreed, there is actually some Chinese stuff that's higher quality. OnePlus for instance makes some of the best phones around at a reasonable price. Mine (7T Pro) has proven to be decently durable, just as powerful as it's Samsung counterpart (S8), and unlike other manufacturers it's not filled to the gills with bloatware that you can't remove. Pricewise the 7T Pro is a bit cheaper than the Galaxy S8 but offers the same Processor, same RAM, and more storage per dollar. It also doesn't have a notch for it's selfie camera but instead uses a popup camera and it was the first phone with an under the glass fingerprint sensor which unlike Samsung's version never suffered from a certain major security flaw (if you used a screen protector anyone could open your phone). On the flip side it doesn't have SD card support (Mine has more storage than I'll ever need so that's not an issue), doesn't have wireless charging (the next version probably will but it's an overrated feature anyway as even 'fast' wireless is only half the power of 'fast' wired and is effectively worse than half when charging a phone that's still on and using power), and it doesn't have a waterproof rating (it's decently waterproof but the popup selfie camera probably introduces a potential water path). Admittedly I don't know what kind of shortcuts they may have taken inside the phone but from a usage perspective it's a good deal. Other than OnePlus I've heard there are some Chinese clothing manufacturers that focus on quality but I don't know of any brands off hand (I'm a simple man who doesn't shop for clothes very often and when I do it's usually just Hanes, Dickies, and occasionally Wrangler clothing though their quality seems to have dropped recently). When it comes to equipment and automotive manufacturing I don't think I've ever seen good quality from China (working in the manufacturing industry I've seen some stuff come from China that's made me wonder how the heck they screwed up so badly).

[@JonnyD3ath]

China is the same as everywhere else. You can buy cheap shit, or you can pay more and get good shit.

[@KrotowX]

@@JonnyD3ath Or you can pay a ton of money for expensive shit (think Apple repairs).

[@rzutybigos2528]

My GF just dumped me and I'm watching your videos to relax, thank you and keep up the good work ❤

[@hpmmqh4477]

"Get it all nice and hot, then bang it." -- Life lessons with the master All jokes aside, I need a solder sucker

[@hjalfi]

I got one of the ultracheap Chinese soldering iron / suckers. I did end up taking it apart to check the earthing (poor) and the connections (mains wires simply twisted together inside! But done very carefully, and it may be because one set of wires is aluminium), and I would say it's worth exactly the $9 shipped I paid for it, but it does _work_ --- rather well... Long and boring teardown video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGHGoaiXib9pq5I

[@silverstrings5569]

I would be very careful getting the squeeze-bulb type. They don't play nice if you get it a touch too close to the iron itself.

[@TheGamingComputerBomb]

Solder wick is the best

[@KatzRool]

This entire thread reads like a strange euphemism.

[@MC_AU]

Your PCB photos are so good, I was worried when the crocodile clips fell onto it ! 😮

[@JuniorJunison]

Yeah how the heck do you take such amazing photos of the pcbs? Care to share your secret?

[@win132001]

@@JuniorJunison Macro lens with extension tubes and a really good printer if I had to guess.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Good lighting.

[@miallo]

@@bigclivedotcom If you do it the same way as ElectroBOOM then you must go through a lot of capacitors every week...

[@Colonies_Dev]

@@miallo he just blows them up on purpose lmao

[@merlinmagnus873]

"I don't see anyone doing this because it's an odd thing to do." Says the guy doing it.

[@slaughterround643]

it's bigclive not normalclive

[@rogerwilco2]

It is sort of the definition of this channel.

[@Inglott]

My dad was a BT engineer and engineering instructor back in the 80s, but I never got to meet him. I kind of wish I explored engineering when I was younger, because I would have loved it. Thanks for all the videos Clive!

[@brucegoatly]

The transistors are labelled FZT - isn't that the noise they make when the magic smoke comes out?

[@benbaselet2026]

Not realy, in this quality made in Zermany product the fizz will be much longer because there is way more working smoke inside the components.

[@dsloop3907]

The Zerman fizz's are known for their bursts- fizz---fizz---fizz, usually ending with an epic FIZWAHHZZZUUUZZ, pop.

[@RavenLuni]

@@dsloop3907 Cheap chinese variants just use rice krispies for this.

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Lovely old Zetex / Ferranti.

[@misterhat5823]

@@lumpyfishgravy Yep. Zetex made some excellent BJTs.

[@relax427]

"Assuming I don't let the smoke out" That's how you know a good technician right there.

[@bwc1976]

When I saw "overclock" I was hoping he would let the smoke out!

[@BMcC78]

Factory installed smoke is real!

[@TheBigBadButler]

Since my father does FMEAs for cars (failure mode and effects analysis) I can tell you that basically most of those safety features are just in case you drive your BMW against the wall and don't want to be poisoned by ions. So, if you drive a BMW against another BMW, it's just the impact that's killing you - not the parts of the BMW that are malfunctioning. So you got that going for you, which is nice.

[@emmettturner9452]

"Not Recommended" Well, the KZbin algorithm disagrees. ;)

[@obviouslytwo4u]

You need to subscribe big Clive is a master genius

[@harlanmcdiarmid]

If it wasn't recommended there wouldn't be step by step youtube videos how

[@hanleypc]

I am overwhelmed by the quantity of your content, you work very hard!

[@Averna222]

I'm thinking this is the kind of stuff he's always done for fun and just thought one day "hey I can record this and put it on KZbin".

[@n4nln]

BigClive is another in the long line of folks who live to goof on technobits and spread the wealth of his understanding and his mad skillz at extracting clue from reluctant hardware. Once upon a time, this was how a good tech would troubleshoot kit they had never seen before. The advent of SAMS Photofacts for televisions and radio things were immensely valuable and a subscription to SAMS was a litmus test to distinguish a real repair shop from someone financing bass boat payments after the $DAYJOB. I will say that the mainstreaming of color television made a lot of money for SAMS because swapping a color picture tube with the requisite complete setup of convergence, purity, color levels, video drive, sweep geometry, and HV could become a real snipe hunt without the Tech Notes in the SAMS for the set in question. One could certainly get it done without the Cliff Notes, but a 2 hour job could easily become a 4 hour job, especially if using a “rebuilt” picture tube.

[@sixspeeddeath]

Loving the teardown! I'm a tech with BMW, so I love the explanations. If I remember correctly, some of these were known for causing closed circuit current infringement, and they were only used for a short period of time.

[@rimmersbryggeri]

DO you know what models used it?

[@sixspeeddeath]

@@rimmersbryggeri F01, F10 for this type (Couldn'ttell you which years used it), and G05,G06,G07 use the new style.

[@rimmersbryggeri]

@@sixspeeddeath Too new to be on the the pick yourself part of the scrap yard anyway. But thanks that was a really fast reply when you really dont have to. :)

[@Hyraethian]

Bigclive: **technobabble** me: **Confused nodding** "interesting"

[@Lumibear.]

Yup. Just grin and nod, it all sounds good.

[@jisu222]

Hilarious

[@Kinkese]

Technoblade... Oh Wait

[@silverstreetmoto1458]

Totally agree with you,I never had a clue about electronic things and I'm still not much wiser lol!

[@wokejesus6501]

I thought this video was going to teach me how to steal a BMW. Instead, it inspired a newfound fascination with electrical engineering that led me to enroll in a BA transfer program at my local community college. Thanks bigclive!

[@joshuaentwistle960]

Do we need to save up and buy you a signal generator, Clive?

[@cls63amgwagon34]

Yes, but I don’t think it would’ve helped here, I think this is controlled by LINBUS

[@mrnmrn1]

Pretty sure he has a signal gen. He has a recent model Keysight scope, it probably has built-in signal generator, but I guess he has some other generators as well, like simple ebay kits.

[@sw33t.angela]

@@cls63amgwagon34 Probably true. The signalling would be too complicated for an ordinary wave generator to output -- you'd need a proper chip to communicate with it. Good luck with that.

[@lumpyfishgravy]

No, he can roll his own with an Arduino. Run it off an RS232 console interface.

[@hackeritalics]

Although it may be Line bus it seems pretty obvious that mr. Clive did not know this. He was dabbing the lead on and off because he was trying to make a square wave.. if it were in fact a pwm signal a signal generator is exactly what you would use. I'm sure he has many and I'm a little confused why he just didn't use one. then he could have said " oh, I guess this doesn't use pwm." lol

[@timberthewolf733]

"Your not a BMW ECU , your just a bear poking me with a wire." X,D

[@DerCrawlerVomUrAnus]

*You're

[@fatassshibe7285]

@@DerCrawlerVomUrAnus **Yro'ue

[@newjerseybill3521]

@2:53 "I'm seeing way too much sophisticated stuff..." Welcome to the world of German automotive engineering. :)

[@LaterMeansBrick]

Just had to replace a broken door latch mechanism in my old e36. It had so many moving parts it would make a clockmaker blush.

[@straightpipediesel]

It's European engineering in general and there's a reason. European labor is expensive, particularly in the West, and often hard to find for repetitive assembly jobs, so they try to automate as much as possible. Because there's limitations of what a robot can do, this means putting 5 snap-together plastic pieces to avoid two screws.

[@alextasarov1341]

LaterMeansBrick were you looking at the window regulator? In my e46 the regulator looks so confusing and there are a bunch of other random parts in there as well besides the speakers and airbag. It may not be so modern anymore but everything still works as well as my parents newer chevys and fords xD

[@peterzingler6221]

Modern German cars don't need this. The engine will die long before the ac starts smelling

[@dumdum7786]

True

[@Osmosium2507]

Sad but kind of true. I am working in the German car industry and I think the success of the car manufacturers is their downfall. I have the feeling that a lot of people work there because of the prestige, money and career. Not many are there because they are interested in cars. A lot of money goes in marketing and other bullshit while technical development is outsourced to save money.

[@lsd25records]

actually there 6 cylinder engines are known to last a long time... we have 10 B.M.W'S in our yard we work on them ourselves ... vary in age .. mostly E36 +E46 .... If you know how to work on cars and have a shop.... and have a chance to own 1 of these cars .. you will know what all the fuss is about... usually people who dont work on their cars or have never owned a beemer who bitch about them... E46's are a excellent investment right now ..

[@Audiojack_]

@@lsd25records The E46 is an over 20 year old design, and even though I will personally always prefer pre-2000 cars, that is not what you could call "modern german car". A lot of the beemers from this decade are not quite as good.

[@kendesimon4177]

Holy fuck you fucking killed it

[@williamsquires3070]

Remember, reverse-engineering any circuit, no matter how small or large is a matter of pen, paper,... and screaming! 😊

[@Nono-hk3is]

"You're just a bear poking a wire on!"

[@peterg.8245]

All my life 😥

[@ShaunieDale]

“Assuming I don’t let the smoke out”. Then he picks up his famous Spudger and I immediately worry that he might let the Claret out! Keep up the good work Clive. I do diagnostics on cars for a living and I’ve never had to replace one of these yet, so this is useful to me!

[@aaronbrown1638]

This guy is a true genius. If i did THIS type of stuff when i were bored, I'd Be something by now.

[@KennethPaul]

Only Clive would have his house filled with BMW scented ozone, smells like efficiency and £€$ 🤤

[@peterg.8245]

My kitchen smells likes pounds too!!!

[@BLEVLS]

I liked how he warned us the lights were coming back on lol, very courteous.

[@indiana_horst]

Going by my knowledge of german car electronics, the third wire was probably a K-Line (perhaps KWP2000) bus: the low-speed, one wire, bidirectional bus which was pretty much succeeded by CAN in the car. It's still in use in some areas of modern cars, mostly for sensors and actors like this one, which don't deserve access to the CAN bus. The seonsors are instead connected to "larger" ECUs which communicate their findings on the CAN bus (after some processing). That said, due to the pulsing communication, it does look a bit like a PWM signal.

[@robinpeach-toon2595]

Big Clive, you are like the Bob Ross of circuitry but with a bit more pops and fizzes, thank you

[@Gwalchgwyn]

Glad I'm not the only one who made this comparison: it is so true!

[@mickward2775]

I will have to find one of those. That Corona discharge looks so lovely Cool video. Looking forward to the live stream tomorrow

[@bigclivedotcom]

You can buy ceramic plate ozone generators on eBay with 12V supplies.

[@Lykaotix]

You've convinced me to reverse engineer an air purifier I found not too long ago. Best part about it though...I have 2 identical models....so I may be modifying at least one of them.

[@garthbarrett6067]

I am an old fart with a passing fascination with all things electronic. I have learned so much under Clive's tutelege. He is always interesting and willing to pass on his knowledge. Thanks Clive.

[@mathiasbmx1]

nice video. Im a mechanic from Denmark, so i found this very interesting. In future experiments most of electric car components are wired with 12v, ground and a 5v signal. Hope you could use this in any way:)

[@graealex]

Don't worry about blowing it up. Automotive components need to withstand - 100VDC pulses in testing, as well as other kinds of under- and overvoltage scenarios.

[@Mr.T4LLY-0]

Thing to note: Never let BigClive borrow your car!

[@rpavlik1]

BMW - Bear Moving Wires - seems like a real BMW to me 😉

[@generedwine6863]

LOL is that bear or bare moving wires?

[@aterack833]

I upvoted this before I actually got it, at first I thought you were saying the bmw saw the bear and said “seems legit” sarcastically, or maybe not sarcastically

[@Wilgara1]

Clive has found his niche , making really good videos !

[@Nathan0A]

@14:50 I just realized you're saying the chinese version would be faking safety features that would result in an unintended corona discharge... good one, lol

[@BenCos2018]

LMAO

[@LuminalSpoon]

Big Gear or Top Clive?

[@Supervisor-Steve]

The grand Clive?

[@Grunttamer]

Top Clive or Bottom Clive?

[@code.talker]

Why not both?

[@AntonioClaudioMichael]

Lmfao

[@jazbell7]

Most people "hot wire" a car to steal it. Clive "hot wires" a car part to get ozone.

[@gingermanc]

I hotwired my own Beetle to get home - stuck in the middle of Wales - Police arrived and asked what I was doing, "I'm hotwiring my car" - carry on the copper said and drove off.

[@NavinBetamax]

@@gingermanc ....He knew that you were Honest !

[@DrTeddyMMM]

Most hot wire to "steal" it, Clive hot wires to "smell" it... Hmmmm, yeah, I do like ozone too...

[@wyvern4588]

I'm starting to realize that Clive can't breathe normal oxygen, he needs Ozone to survive.

[@SightsToKeepInSight]

It's amazing how i love your videos and i only understand 5% of the explanations... but i keep watching until the end. Maybe because my mind is always waiting for things to go wrong ;)

[@Poop-nu1so]

This is good stuff right here. Yeah it's too bad most modules these days require data to run. I don't know if it's always serial data, like via a CAN bus, but i do know that sometimes their "language" and/or protocols are proprietary. This means only their own modules, like a BCM, can talk to each other. Also that's only if they're programmed properly. Meaning you can't always swap the same hardware between the same vehicles either without being properly reflashed. Very frustrating.

[@kenmore01]

I can't even get my printer to talk to aftermarket ink cartridges.

[@jakestellar4600]

That’s a VERY GOOD PICTURE!!!! Around 6:00 I had turned my head and then looked back and I just couldn’t focus my mind to see that as a picture, looks like an actual board

[@alecman95]

I love this about his videos. It’s such a simple yet effective idea to make it easier for us to follow him

[@1dubsalot]

BigClive: How to Hotwire a BMW... Ozone Generator

[@win132001]

Epic click bait title! 😆😎

[@Notpoop906]

He totally should have made the title some variation of this!

[@TheSlyMouse]

That trick where you banged the board on the table to remove the solder was so clever.

[@Opel_Guy]

The 'spacers' are just glue dots to hold the component and secure it against vibration and cracking the solder joints. Not uncommon for larger SMD components.

[@MrShnazer]

Please do the inner workings of a induction cooker and how the temperature is controlled.

[@lo377ps]

Maybe the input is not PWM but LIN bus?

[@harveyhart8348]

Well Joy-Joy for getting it running, several years ago I was asked to fathom an Eberspacher ... there's a £800 free standing set or 2 for £150 that are for polar regions and snap into skoda/Volvo/ect and the dodgy supplier throws in a hand drawn note as a wiring diagram... but I had no joy .. perhaps you would have fared better...

[@gennadyplyushchev1465]

Great video! Minor comment: I think this is a Dielectric Barrier Discharge (or DBD), and not a corona discharge.

[@hardwareful]

5:55 : that looks like a buck converter stage using the inductor of the current-fed royer converter. That's pretty typical for LCD backlight circuits. Top circuitry might be current monitoring on the output side that is connected to ground which can provide feedback to provide some safe way to shut down the converter. Can't turn off BOTH transistors of a current-fed converter at once as this would cause overvoltage and destruction of the switches.

[@BPantherPink]

SUCH an important thing to know this...and marvel at the ingenuity of this lovely man !! Have just booked a Series7 just for this very purpose 👍🙏🏼

[@BPantherPink]

Four o'clock in the fkng morn...and he's at it still 😁

[@SyCoREAPER]

I've literally never heard of such a device in cars. Granted I've always had older sports cars but this is intriguing

[@leexgx]

30 ecus in a car is just silly ( I think Mercedes are even worse if you take the car battery out you then need to call Mercedes to come out and reconnect all your ECU features back up witch takes about 30 minutes to do)

[@user-qf6yt3id3w]

Over-engineering? From BMW? Who'd have thought it!

[@thebrowns5337]

Or are people confusing over-complicating with over-engineering. BMW and JLR are proving so unreliable in tests. Thats not engineering.

[@robcooper9265]

Hi, Great VIdeo! BMW uses a number of communications standards to talk to the various modules its cars, but I think this device uses a system called IBUS (sometimes KBUS) . This is a single wire bus that in its quiet state is held at 12V by a resistor (aprox 10K). When a device wants to communicate it pulls the bus wire to zero volts using a UART at 9600 baud to modulate the signal. This as you found out is a little difficult to emulate with a bit of wire tapping on the gnd. :) . If you wanted to take this further then I would suggest using an arduino or raspberry pi's to operate a transistor that will pull the bus to ground as the uarts signal goes high. There's lots of stuff on the internet about how to format IBUS messages.

[@AaronSmart.online]

A common problem with car ventilation systems is that the cycling on and off of the air conditioning can lead to condensation buildup on the evaporator coil, and growth of mould - leading to a foul odour coming from the vents. I assume the ozone generator is mainly to tackle this issue, so disassembling half the dashboard to clean it out won't be required.

[@BjornV78]

3:32 On the circuitry there is maybe a feedback to the CAN-bus diagnostics of the car.

[@jakestellar4600]

Would you be willing to sell the picture you used in this video? The first one at around 6:00 ?

[@Datadog-1]

Great video Clive, one of my favorites so far

[@PushyPawn]

Big Clive trying to emulate a high frequency signal from a BMW ECU by physically *quickly* tapping a wire on the contact. You crack me up! 😃

[@bigclivedotcom]

Yeah, I was hoping it might be simpler circuitry.

[@barrybigballs6339]

Welcome to another instalment of rip it apart Clive. i have a mate like you, he tells me he fixes thing but what really happens is, he rips it apart throwing the screws over shoulder, figures out how it works then it goes in his scrap box, well i say box, massive shed. But i do like your videos.

[@TheSlyMouse]

One of my favorites ozone videos

[@pepe6666]

another ripper episode. this one was particularly impressive. good on ya big clive.

[@ozonesama]

I like all your ozone-related videos very much.

[@bwc1976]

Overly complicated = typical BMW. Also it's so refreshing to hear someone pronounce solder the way it looks, I don't get what my fellow Americans were thinking when they decided they would say "sodder" instead.

[@BRUXXUS]

I wonder how often, and for how long this thing runs in an actual vehicle. I wonder if there's some sensor in the system that detects particulates and pumps in some ozone. Seems a bit excessive, but... whatever. I will say, I got a 1992 325is in early 2000's and drove that thing for about 8 years. Previous owner treated it like crap, but it was still a great car. I drove it to over a quarter million miles before finally deciding to get something newer. Strangely, it was actually the easiest car to work on that I've ever owned. Oil changes were especially quick and easy. I would have kept it, but the parts cost alone for the new shocks and struts it needed would be more than the entire car was worth. 😔

[@bigclivedotcom]

I believe it's one of the most expensive cars for parts.

[@GeorgeJFW]

Would not surprise me lol

[@Alpejohn]

@@bigclivedotcom If you go to your Stealer it probably is. But if you are smart and buy parts else where its not bad at all. Had my E39 for 10 years now, still loving it.

[@Broken_Yugo]

Given the power I'd bet it probably just puts out a burp of O3 now and then, maybe tied to fan speed to keep the level in the cabin fairly constant.

[@BRUXXUS]

@ Yeah, I'm in North America. Some general maintenance parts really weren't all that expensive compared to more common cars. Even replacing my radiator, (myself) was less than $100 if I recall correctly. The suspension, though.... that's where it really went into crazy cost territory. And by crazy cost, I think it was something around $2000 for all the parts, plus it would have required tools I don't own. I believe that car, at the time, with so many miles only had a Bluebook value of $2500 in top condition, so it really didn't make sense for me to do those repairs. It was a bit of a shame, I really loved that car. Although, I now drive a 05 Jeep Grand Cherokee that was a single previous owner that took great care of it, and it's also been treating me very well. I just wish changing the oil on it was half as simple as it was on my e36!

[@stridera]

Totally learned a new method to clear solder from holes... Can't wait to try this in the office!

[@MrTurboturbine]

You can use an LCR meter to differentiate the transformer windings.

[@jayden_mh]

I don’t even understand anything this guy is saying but it’s 4 am and I’m intrigued

[@someguy2741]

Maybe that ceramic plate needs to be introduced to the stun gun module...

[@ouch1011]

I don't know anything specific about these ozone generators, but generally speaking as an auto tech, BMW sometimes uses single wire networks for their low bandwidth, low priority components. In that case, it would not just be a simple pwm signal that it was expecting, but actual communication. Ultimately it depends on whether or not the fault detection is only "ozone generator fault" or it it can store faults for all kinds of issues.

[@BrassicGamer]

This was much more fun than it had any right to be.

[@jeeper426]

now i'm wanting to scour a junkyard for a couple of these modules to hack a bit and retrofit into a Ford F150 and a Jeep Cherokee, pretty sweet vid, cool video to watch

[@DesignedbyWill2084]

Is it time to add a signal generator to your tools? Everything in my RAV4 runs on a PWM, hard to test without one anymore.

[@sprinkhole58]

"Lets try and... hot wire this thing." ...caused me to involuntarily slow blink and giggle.

[@gcewing]

Joyriders: "Let's hotwire this car!" Big Clive: "I'm not going to hotwire the whole car, just the ozone generator."

[@grantpaterson1016]

do you ever get frustrate when you get requests like 'My mate Dave fae Dalmornock needs his iPhone fixed......that's wit you do don't you?' hahahaha

[@jamesplotkin4674]

My friend, Joe Chucklefuck does the same thing to me. He's also a good friend of Paul McGowan's.

[@cebruthius]

@@jamesplotkin4674 Paul McGowan lol

[@Kineth1]

That's the first thing my (now) girlfriend asked me. I told her the problem was the Apple logo on the back.

[@GeorgeJFW]

The single wire communication bus aka Local interconnect network. floats the line at a set voltage usually 5 volts and pulls it to ground. I still don’t think you could trick it even then, but figured I would toss my 2 cents in.

[@Broken_Yugo]

Yeah, I would think you'd need the whole car to monitor the line for a while and see what all it expects to see.

[@GeorgeJFW]

Broken_Yugo leave it to da Germans lol

[@dfunited1]

I love you, bigclive. You remind me of my lectures with Mr. Guerin

[@ehsnils]

The connector on the unit is most likely Ground, Power and LIN bus. A LIN bus is a multi-drop serial bus, usually 9600bps, but can be up to 19200 bps. So you need to make some experiments with LIN bus devices.

[@ferrumignis]

The 32 pin QFN device is an Atmega88-15MZ, the same family of 8 bit micros used in the original Arduino.

[@luke27luis]

16:20 - Interesting vandalous technique. I shall copy that

[@aevangel1]

"Its quite a big hole in there..... and then bang it" - Big Clive, June 2020

[@robinnesting3811]

I really love how you show that things can be used in other ways! Now I can't wait to find a unit like that and try to make a home air sanitizer from it! Could that be adapted to sanitize masks, maybe?

[@bigclivedotcom]

You can buy ozone generator modules on eBay. Be aware they operate at high voltage, though.

[@Der_Kleine_Mann]

Nifty little device👍 I would love to have an Ionizer in my car, but I probably won't be able to afford a BMW in the near future, but maybe I can somehow incorporate a functional ionizer in my Citroën Berlingo👍

[@rimmersbryggeri]

Clive why don't you use the function generator in your scope rather than the dabbing method?

[@chrishartley1210]

I'm guessing there is some form of current detection which the microprocessor would use to limit consumption (max is supposed to be 830mA), but of course you bypassed all that.

[@D4NS80]

Oh no. He said Corona! Demonetized! :-P Great video. It's amazing how much mad technology gets squashed into a European Car.

[@mikeicee]

LOL 6:22 you've got the positive CORRECT, but yellow is the ground and the middle terminal is the signal/pulse contact.

[@qm3ster]

How did you make your hands so tiny at 3:48? Are you a wizard?

[@cardiffGIANT067]

Hello, great description by the way, very thorough! Sorry though because i don't understand the point of doing this? Is this supposed to make the air fresher inside the car? Or are you just tinkering for the sake of seeing what happens?

[@bigclivedotcom]

I just wanted to explore the circuitry in it.

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

Alright, my question has been answered, it's made by Paragon AG.

[@deltab9768]

After reverse engineering a few myself (including the gfci outlet video on my channel) I have to agree.

[@ferdi93ferdi]

Would you test & recommend one of those cheap ebay ozone generators for the 12V cigarette-plug? My car doesnt have a HVAC air filter, so neutralising or "cleaning" the air would be a interesting modification to build in.

[@bigclivedotcom]

I've made a few videos about those. Beware of fakes.

[@ferdi93ferdi]

Yeah thats why im afraid of! Thank you Clive, i will look them up

[@DavoidJohnson]

Good work. I was making breakfast when you hacked it so I'll have to watch again.

[@GiddeonFox]

You only need one resistor for that Royer circuit, I use that circuit for a lot of my high voltage projects and one works just fine. The transistors are driven by the actual current induced in the winding, the resistor just kinda gives it a push to get it started and keep it going.

[@williamevans9426]

'Seems very complex just to keep the air-con fresh! Does the central control unit of the car signal operation based on cooling/heating cycles or does one operate the ionizer manually when required? I presume (as I think Clive notes) that continuous operation would soon ruin any flexible ventilation ducting. (The unit itself, btw, (w/o cabling, etc) seems to cost around US$110 new.)

[@mattymrj01]

Clive, you should take a look at a final stage resistor for a car HVAC blower fan. I replaced mine and took it apart and found quite some circuitry and I wonder why it needs that since it's only job is to drive a DC (albeit, a 400W one) fan.

[@nosaltiesandrooshere7488]

👍 Danke fürs Hochladen! 👍 Thanks for uploading! 👍 Very good and beautiful, thank you! 👍 Sehr gut und schön, danke!

[@thedrwatson4363]

Car electronics are a fun rabbit hole if you're interested in how convoluted automakers have made components for convenience's sake. And then there's GM's OnStar CAN Data bus and a whole other can of worms to open up if you wanna get further

[@glendekoker3682]

Could you figure out why the BMW M5 actuators fail? I have had 2 go bad but after looking inside couldn't find anything wrong with it.

[@KieranDevvs]

Is this used to stop mould growing in the air vents thus making the AC smell bad? I cant think of any other reason for this?

[@riobowerman]

What kind of pilot marker are you using?? Great vid.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Pilot V-sign. May have different names in other countries.