Is this Ian Cull's original circuit?
It's a direct decendent. GBMINI is Ian Cull. He first produced the circuit as a favor to the Mini community. It's gone through 6 revisions under Ian's control. After selling more than 1700 of them, it was more effort than he was willing to sustain, and FES and Ian talked about transferring the product to us. We have Ian's full support in this effort. He has offloaded the effort of creating and supporting the product, and the Mini community doesn't loose access to a wonderful product. After doing a run of over 100 of Ian's v6 of the circuit, FES has introduced the next generation with more features, all without changing the price.
Where can I learn more about this history of the Auto-Up circuit?
All of Ian's web information is still available at Ian's Auto-Up Pages Feel free to go there and look at the history of the product along with links to several different installation methods and user reviews.
Can this circuit burn out my window motor?
No. The MINI window electronics detect window closure and turn off the window motor automatically. So it doesn't matter if the window is all the way down or just part way down when you use the "auto-up" feature. Your car is protected!
What happened to the Garage Door option?
It lives on in the V7. We've chose a slightely different microcontroller with some more channels and now provide two output channels. When configured as momentary outputs, they act just like the shorting mode of the old garage door option.
Are there any independant reviews of this product?
Yes there are! It's mentioned on pretty much every Mini board and Gabe of MotoringFile has written a complete review as well.
