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mlw20lu

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Posted: August 16, 2008 at 11:27 AM / IP Logged

this may be a dumb question. Is the blue led "status" light supposed to constantly blink. I mounted it in planin sight and unfortunately not onlyu is it annoying as can be blinking constantly at night but it sooooo frekain bright! any way to fix besides unpluggin?? lol

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Posted: August 16, 2008 at 1:29 PM / IP Logged

it should flash only when the alarm is armed....

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mlw20lu

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Posted: August 16, 2008 at 2:04 PM / IP Logged

thats what i thought. any clues as to why it flashes constantly?

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Posted: August 16, 2008 at 2:15 PM / IP Logged

ummm....seriously?

It flashes to warn away theives and let them know that there's an alarm in the vehicle.

mlw20lu

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Posted: August 16, 2008 at 8:12 PM / IP Logged

ok megaman, thats a given, read the whole post before u give a smartass answer. it shouldnt blink when it is disarmed, the car is on and driving( im pretty sure they dont steal ur car while ur driving down the road). any one else looking to give actual advice or help??

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i suspect that they didnt hook up the ign input which is designed to clear "event memory".... it is flashing to say the alarm has been set off while you are gone.... they do this until you cycle the Ign to clear the memory.....

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hurleyloser

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Posted: August 18, 2008 at 4:30 PM / IP Logged

do your doors lock when you turn the key to ignition? this alarm comes by default to lock the doors upon sensing ignition, i'm also guessing that the ignition input isn't wired up correctly.

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mlw20lu

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Posted: August 18, 2008 at 5:27 PM / IP Logged

ok thanks alot i will have to check that out. might have something to do with it being a 2006 chevy cobalt and that car is a royal pain in the ass and it has that damn GM pass lock bulldoodie. any suggestions??

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Posted: August 18, 2008 at 8:04 PM / IP Logged

I beleive it's a PK3 system, and no, it shouldn't have anything to do with that unless it was wired incorrectly and the pink output was only wired to a relay to engage the starting process and not directly conneted to ignition 1 in the car. Which then strikes the question on how the tach was programmed....

the only issue PK3 would bring would be the addition of a couple more relays to get the system to work.

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Posted: August 19, 2008 at 1:11 PM / IP Logged

3002 is alarm only..... it should have nothing to do with the existing PL system.....verify that the alarms IGN wire is actually tied in to the vehicle's IGN wire and i'm sure you'll correct your problem....

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