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eiknujrac

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Posted: February 03, 2005 at 8:25 PM / IP Logged

My alarm is a Crimestopper cs2016FM, and the stock siren is loud, but is really high pitched and annoying.

I've heard the just hooking up a different 12v siren could damage the brain by too much current draw, so I'm going to be hooking it up using a relay. My question is, does the alarm store the 6 tones in the brain or in the siren? Lets just say this: if I hooked up the current siren using a relay (alarm 12v to 86, ground 85, 12v constant to 87, siren to 30), and the alarm goes off, will it still put out the 6 different tones? or will it just be one continous chirp?

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Posted: February 03, 2005 at 9:48 PM / IP Logged

Tones are a function of the siren. And according to your relay diagram the siren will be on all the time, Literally all the time.

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Posted: February 03, 2005 at 9:50 PM / IP Logged

Did the little diagram fast, not sure if its right, but you know what i mean (use the alarm output to power the relay)

eiknujrac

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Posted: February 03, 2005 at 9:53 PM / IP Logged

EDIT: why would that diagram not work? I may have confused you when i said alarm 12v to 86, i mean alarm siren output 12v.

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Posted: February 03, 2005 at 10:13 PM / IP Logged

Most alarm unit has about 3A output and some a bit more. It usually written on some sort of literture when you purchase a new siren. However, if you are running a relay then you don't have to worry too much about the current draw.

A siren would have all the tone build inside of them. The alarm unit just provide a continous 12V to the siren once it is set off. If your alarm has a horn output wire, you would hook it up to the factory horn of your car which would give you a short pulse on the sound rather than a continuous honk.

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Posted: February 03, 2005 at 10:45 PM / IP Logged

eiknujrac wrote:

EDIT: why would that diagram not work? I may have confused you when i said alarm 12v to 86, i mean alarm siren output 12v.

That fixes it.

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