i realise the clifford arrow 2 is an old alarm system, but it does what i need it to, and its a good alarm, i've had it on my 90 honda crx since 1999, it was installed at a good professional shop called earmark car audio.
it worked good for long time, but i had problem later where my parking lights (corner signal lights), would stay stuck on after
arming it, and if i did'nt look at the car when arming it, and did'nt notice if the parking lights got stuck on or not, then i end up
coming back and finding my battery is drained !, howie from this forum told me to cut the brown wire going to the brain, to disable the flashing parking light feature, so i did that and no more problem with that.
also i had some problems where it acted weird, something to do with the valet mode toggle switch ?, it was in a spot that was easy for me to hit accidentally, and then i did'nt know if it was hit and it probably was on, in valet mode, so thats why it probably seemed to act weird?, also the toggle switch was'nt mounted on anything, so it was just hanging by the wire its on, hanging real low below the underdash fusebox, and was sometimes in the way of my left leg when driving, so i ended up rolling it up and jamming it up any place around the fusebox area, but later it always seemed to drop back down
again?, then i think i was pulling on it real hard or something, and later the toggle switch came off of the wire, and not sure
what happened to it?, cause don't know where it is?, even know it was pulled and messed with, the wires look ok and not damaged, and are connected good into the harness?
i can't recall why exactly, but there were also a few times (1-3), where i had a problem where i accidentally opened the door triggering the alarm to go off, cause i did'nt know it was armed, and then i could'nt un-arm it ?, and i think messing with the valet mode toggle switch finally let me un-arm it? but another time i could'nt un-arm it even after messing with the valet mode toggle switch and stuff, and when i even disconnected the negative battery cable the alarm was still going off ?, and so i was forced to cut the wire for the siren!, cause it was 1:30am so i was hurrying up to try to turn it off cause i knew all the neighbors heard it!
so now i decided to get the alarm so its working normal again, cause i know its good and just need to figure out what causes it to do certain things?, and check everything to make sure its all good.
first thing i noticed was the batteries inside both remotes were low, and tested 40%, so i bought new ons for them.
i printed out the installation guide for the clifford arrow 3 to use as reference, cause i could'nt find one for the arrow 2 ?, but
they seemed similar enough? i looked at all the wires good, and they matched all the colors like it showed on the wire chart for the arrow 3, so it was like the arrow 2 a lot, i checked and the couple fuses in fuse holders were still good, i wired the siren back up, using butt connectors and ratcheting crimping tool and put electrical tape and loom covering it, i taped up the ends of the cut wires, the brown wire i cut for flashing parking lights, and there were 4 cut wires taped together, and i found out they were for accessories, power locks and things that were'nt needed.
also, theres a single white wire coming out of the brain control box?, it comes out the side of it, and does'nt come out of the
harness, its just by itself coming out of the box ?, does anyone know what that wire would be for exactly ?, on the chart it said there was a white wire that was for the valet mode input?, would that be it? but i thought i saw the black and white wires for the valet mode toggle switch both going to the harness?, unless it did go to the white wire coming out the brain?
and maybe since i had problems with the valet mode and toggle switch, i just cut it where it connected to the white wire ? to eliminate any problems with it?, not sure if i did, but if i did, i would'nt of known what i was doing?
there was a yellow wire somewhere mixed in around all the alarm related wires, which had a rubber fuse holder thing on the wire, which a fuse would snap into, but it was empty and had no fuse in it?, not sure what that is for ?, but in the guide for the arrow 3, it just showed 2 different fuse holders and were different amp fuses in them, and had orange and red wires and stuff, so i thought maybe the yellow one was for something other than the alarm?, but i need to make sure if it is for the alarm or not?
so after organizing all the alarm wires, i plugged the brain up and hooked the battery cable back on, and turned the ignition key to "on", and first thing it showed was a blinking led light ?, and i pressed the unarm button on remote and it went off, but did'nt hear siren at all?, then i armed it and was blinking again, then disarmed, then pressed both buttons like arming it silently, and it started blinking again but no siren sound, but then the led went off and was'nt blinking or anything when i pressed any of the remote buttons ?, so i turned the key to "off", and turned back to "on", and now led light was just solid?, and it did'nt react at all to any remote buttons being pressed ?, so i gave up and just unplugged the brain unit until i figure more out about it.
would it act weird if the valet toggle switch was'nt connected to the black and white wires that it supposed to go to ?, cause at the end of the black and white wires, one has a metal plug end and the other wire has a metal hole that a plug on end of wire would connect into, do those connect to the toggle switch somehow?, or do they connect to each other?, where the black wire is connected to the white wire?, cause i just connected them together since i did'nt know what to do with them, but maybe thats wrong and is making it act weird?
just wanted to get some help and guidance on figuring out how i can get this alarm working back to normal, so i can just have a simple alarm to arm my car with, so theres a blinking led and also that would trigger a sound alert if a thieve opened door or broke window, so they be more likely to pass it up, cause i live near downtown and i park on side of house where its real dark and its an older 1990 honda which has the type of doors and locks and windows that are easy for thieves to get into, so thought its worth me getting alarm working normal so i can put it to use again.