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Instrument Panel Lights

Post by Ozzy » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:19 pm

Hi there. Does anyone know what the lights either side of the Voice Modulator indicate (S1, S2, P1 - 4)? Just wondering.

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Post by James_kr » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:31 am

Here is what I think.

Air - Air and Oxygen
Oil - Oil Ready
S1 - System 1
S2 - System 2
P1 - Program 1
P2 - Program 2
P3 - Program 3
P4 - Program 4
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Post by HungarianKnight » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:23 am

Here's my idea:

Air and Oil: no comment

S1 and S2: Systems and Backup Systems

P1, P2, P3, P4: Processors/CPU-s. Kitt is possibly a multi-CPU configuration, or at least I think so...
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Post by James_kr » Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:22 pm

Lol.

In the season 3-4 alt and aux could be backup systems.
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Post by HungarianKnight » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:18 pm

ALT: Active Line Transfer

AUX: Backup systems

Oil press

Sat comm

Oil temp

ACC: Automatic Cruise Control

EGT: Exhaust Gas Temperature

Radar

Fuel

MPI:Message Parsing Interface
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Post by FuzzieDice » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:23 pm

If I remember right, in the pilot episode, at least once Devon mentioned the "Knight 2000" as having "microprocessors". Mainly when Michael first got into KITT.

So it means that yes, KITT has several processors.

Today, many cars have more than one processor to work all the bells and whistles such as lights, security, seat, A/C, cruise control, etc. etc. I don't remember how far back that goes though. I think maybe only 2000 or so, maybe earlier. My car only has an Engine Control computer with a PROM chip with table-type data for the computer to compare sensor readings to pre-programmed information. And my car was built in 1987. Then again, mine is a base model.

Back in '82 though, KITT's multi-processing system would have been quite futuristic for that time. :)
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