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Dummy alarm light

Post by warrior » Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:46 pm

My sister cant afford an alarm at the moment so I got her a dummy alarm light from jarcar today, went to fit it and for the life of me I cant get it to work.

It has no instructions.

It has one red wire and one black wire.

I did a quick search on the net and the best I could see was...

RED wire to constant power.

Black wire to ACC power.

But this will not work. Any ideas guys???????
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Post by Snapfrozen » Mon Dec 09, 2013 5:21 pm

Black needs to be earthed. I would try it to the ACC ground, so that when ACC is off, it comes on.

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Post by warrior » Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:20 pm

Is the ACC different than a normal earth? I have tried earthing the black wire and the light works but does not go off.
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Post by WideOpenThrottle » Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:01 pm

When I did an LED one on an earlier car I think it worked just by connecting red to pos & black to neg.This will make it run all the time
I then got fancy and used a relay to turn it off while driving and then only flash with the key out.
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Post by warrior » Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:05 pm

This should run the correct way without the relay, just need to work out the correct wireing.
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Post by WideOpenThrottle » Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:40 pm

Just try it across the battery terminals to see if it goes!
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Post by warrior » Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:42 pm

Yeah it does but it wont stop.
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Post by WideOpenThrottle » Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:18 am

Its not supposed too...that's why I used a relay to cut the power when the ignition was turned on.
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Post by Snapfrozen » Tue Dec 10, 2013 9:24 pm

warrior wrote:Is the ACC different than a normal earth? I have tried earthing the black wire and the light works but does not go off.
This way when ACC is on - the light won't go on, when it's off, the light will come on. I may have worded it backwards, it's late at night :P

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