Alarm 94 honda accord

jrilla wrote: If you want to have a starter kill feature which will open the circuit that your starter is on when the alarm is armed, you need to use that wire to trigger a 30amp relay. This feature is not necessary but it is a very standard feature on an alarm. If you wish to use this feature, that wire you are asking about goes to pin 85 on the relay, Pin 86 goes to an ignition wire, pin 30 goes to the key side of the cut starter wire, and pin 87a goes to the engine side of the starter wire.

The alarm has 2 ignition wires which one has to be connected to the pin 86? Both ignition wires have to be used when installing a start alarm? thnx

It sounds like you want to start an installation business by the general line of questioning. If this is right, then you will want to purchase a bunch of relays and relay harnesses. Get some 3 wire prewired harnesses for starter kill relays and then 5 wire harnesses for the rest. You should also learn how relays work so that you can set them up on your own since you will use them often and they are quite simple to use.J Rilla

Owner/Installer

cpgoose wrote: Does every car have the relay for starter kill or you have to buy it? Most alarms come with the relay for starter kill. and how does it work? Someone correct me if I'm wrong...When the car is "armed", the relay will prevent the car from being started. If the key is inserted and turned, the alarm will sound. When the car is disarmed, however, then the relay allows the car to be started. I'm sure you can get a better explanation that that, though. Whats the best place to connect battery constant 12V power? I like to grab 12v power from the ignition switch under the dash. If you take off the driver's "knee" panel, you'll probably see a lot of black tape and loom. That's what's usually covering the wires from the ignition switch. In there, there's wires for 12v constant, 12v switched, and other stuff. I like to follow that wire down a bit, and then connect to it there. If it's something big, though, like an amplifier, I grab the 12v directly from the battery under the hood by going through the firewall.

how do you connect it to the 12v? yopu cut it than tape it? thnx

jrilla wrote: It sounds like you want to start an installation business by the general line of questioning. If this is right, then you will want to purchase a bunch of relays and relay harnesses. Get some 3 wire prewired harnesses for starter kill relays and then 5 wire harnesses for the rest. You should also learn how relays work so that you can set them up on your own since you will use them often and they are quite simple to use.

No lol...I just like to know about everything.where does the 5wire harness go?

what does vacuum switch do? thnx

are you going to install something or do you just want to know?J Rilla

Owner/Installer

AudioSlave wrote: a test light in todays cars?!?   I know its unlikely that you'd fry a computer or pop an airbag, but why risk it?  That'd be a mighty costly mistake.

than what should be used?

A good test light is no more dangerous than a DMM. Its not like I go around probing any wire I come across anyway. J Rilla

Owner/Installer

jrilla wrote: are you going to install something or do you just want to know?

Well, since I paid the frist time for someone to put it in for me, now Im thinking about upgrading the alarm system. why do they say if you use test light you might pop a air bag or something? than whats the safest way? thnx

You would have to be a complete moron to inflate an airbag. If you ground the wrong wire at one of the vehicles computers you could fry the computer, but if you know what you are doing then a good test light is all you need, (except for when dealing with resistors and tach signals), and actually i dont even use a normal DMM for tach anymore since I now have a tool that tells me the RPMs and how many cylinders the signal is representing.J Rilla

Owner/Installer