Alarm beep mod help please.
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Alarm beep mod help please.
I went into this thinking it would be easy, as it probably should be, but for some reason I can't make ANY sense of the diagrams, instructions found on the vqpower.com write up (http://www.vqpower.com/v2/modules.ph...howpage&pid=39). Can someone please tell me how to utilize the relay, what wires to splice with what, etc...Just pretty much everything you can think of to help me understand what to do. Thanks in advance.
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#4
yeah i did it without the relay. its not needed. its pretty straight forward. as per the insturctions just splice the green/orange wire in the car with the red wire on the buzzer. then splice the orange wire on the car with the black wire on the buzzer. thats basically it. you might want to make the beep more audible like i did by moving it under the trunk. just run some extra wire down through the plug in the trunk and to the bottom of the car and mount the buzzer somewhere under there.
#5
Originally Posted by MaximaTodd
yeah i did it without the relay. its not needed. its pretty straight forward. as per the insturctions just splice the green/orange wire in the car with the red wire on the buzzer. then splice the orange wire on the car with the black wire on the buzzer. thats basically it. you might want to make the beep more audible like i did by moving it under the trunk. just run some extra wire down through the plug in the trunk and to the bottom of the car and mount the buzzer somewhere under there.
ok awesome i have the buzzer so maybe ill do put it on this weekend when im home
#7
JUST A NOTE TO THIS MOD. I just redid mine because corrosion ate thru the wire just as it goes into the buzzer. so this time I put a layer of silicone sealer on the bottom of the buzzer and about 1/8" on the wire. hope this saves a redo. oh yeah, this is mounted to the bottom of the bumper, out in the elements.
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#12
Originally Posted by speed racer
Ok, I just installed this mod. I could hardly hear the damn thing with all the noise in NY. Is there anything better out that there will give me some better noise?
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#13
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33721
Do you think this thing will be good? Or should I go with ...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...771656650&rd=1
Where should I mount it?
Do you think this thing will be good? Or should I go with ...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...771656650&rd=1
Where should I mount it?
#16
i did mine w/o using relay. it works fine. if you leave the beeper in the trunk then you can barely hear it. i pull the wire out side and mount it under the bumper and so i can hear it better. its not that loud but you can hear. haha i was thinkin about using the smoke detector beep because its loud. but i havent did that yet.
#19
here is a sound clip of the buzzer mounted outside my car (under the rear bumper):
RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS!!!! MAX BEEP:
http://www.absolutevelocity.net/albu...axima_beep.mpg
here is a clip of our g35 beep for comparison. they sound very similar, the max just has slower beeps.
RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS!!!! G35 BEEP:
http://www.absolutevelocity.net/albu...a/g35_beep.mpg
.
RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS!!!! MAX BEEP:
http://www.absolutevelocity.net/albu...axima_beep.mpg
here is a clip of our g35 beep for comparison. they sound very similar, the max just has slower beeps.
RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS!!!! G35 BEEP:
http://www.absolutevelocity.net/albu...a/g35_beep.mpg
.
#28
That siren idea sounds cool. I can compete with all the other car alarms on the block. Those damn car alarms go off every 5 min. I hear pigions more than I hear this damn buzzer.
#29
Originally Posted by speed racer
That siren idea sounds cool. I can compete with all the other car alarms on the block. Those damn car alarms go off every 5 min. I hear pigions more than I hear this damn buzzer.
#30
The Problem is...
My max's relay was one orange wire & all the others are green, so after a spent and hour trying figure it out with the relay & the wire harness separated, I took the relay mount off and tried it again.
My suggestion is to use one of the spiffy voltage testers that can poke the wire without stripping it, and try each of the green wires as you hit the lock button on your remote, and watch for 12V on your tester, and bingo, splice it with red and ground the black on the mount screw. It sounds great until you close the trunk... but I'll get some more wire & run it out and under the bumper as described above.
I just wish I could get it to flash & beep a little faster so it sounds like a factory beep.
My suggestion is to use one of the spiffy voltage testers that can poke the wire without stripping it, and try each of the green wires as you hit the lock button on your remote, and watch for 12V on your tester, and bingo, splice it with red and ground the black on the mount screw. It sounds great until you close the trunk... but I'll get some more wire & run it out and under the bumper as described above.
I just wish I could get it to flash & beep a little faster so it sounds like a factory beep.
#31
Originally Posted by MaximaTodd
yeah i did it without the relay. its not needed. its pretty straight forward. as per the insturctions just splice the green/orange wire in the car with the red wire on the buzzer. then splice the orange wire on the car with the black wire on the buzzer. thats basically it. you might want to make the beep more audible like i did by moving it under the trunk. just run some extra wire down through the plug in the trunk and to the bottom of the car and mount the buzzer somewhere under there.
Also, I tried black to the orange & red to each of the green wires, and since the red is constantly powered, the sounder is constantly sounding.
I have no idea what to do.
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