Pre-warn on Shock Sensor, Omega Alarm

I connected my dualzone shock sensor supertightly on my steering wheel column after failing to get it to work on a different metal part of the car. Still, same problem, even if I kick the tires very very hard or even rock the car, no trigger from my Omega Alarm's shock sensor, even though the first zone's tuning pot is turned all the way up, fully clockwise. Just in case the pot is reversed, I even tried it full anticlockwise. I tied the dualzone shock sensor on the steering wheel column, put a double side tape in between, put 4 wire ties around the whole thing very tighly, and even put some tape around the whole thing. I mean it is really tight now. If I try to tighten the thing any furthur, I will break the plastic housing. Still no effect upon kickin the wheels or rockin the car. I then added a second shock sensor to a part of the car that is metal, still the first zone never seems to pick up. Second zone is fine. Can this be a problem with the Omega Alarm's first zone sensor not working? All I get is the full-alarm and never the pre-warn. If I turn the full-zone down hoping the first zone picks up, still no luck.

you must have a bad sensor its waranted for life if where you got it wont swap it call omega and they will do something for you to help out 18889218324tj

I tried another sensor from a different company(Bulldog security). Each time I tested the sensora with no other sensor connected to the alarm. That did not kick-in the prewarn either. So I assume it should no be the sensor.

Anyone knows which is the best dualzone shock sensor that works well for both zones?? I think I've had enough with trying a couple of them (Omega's and Bulldog's) that never give out the prewarn but only the full trigger even on setting full-trigger very low and pre-warn very high. Please tell me which is best and I will go buy it and end this problem hopefully.

mark i will bench test one here and see if it works good on the bench, if so i will send it to you.....Good Luck

David

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Here's what I currently did. I put my original dual-stage sensor(Omega) for the full-trigger and used the second sensor's full-trigger(Bulldog) to connect to the pre-warn input of my alarm, since only the full-trigger is working even when I want to trigger a pre-warn.Here's what I did: I also will have to try different sensors to see which works well. I know this is not the fault of the brain since I did a test. Here's how I tested it. I sat in the car, armed it with the remote, then shorted the pre-warn output of the shock sensor to ground. That makes the prewarn sound perfectly. This proves that the sensor is not giving the -ve signal for long enough for the alarm to pick it up OR the alarm needs a longer duration of the -ve signal to "trip" it.

might try cutting the omega warn away wire ( between the omega shock sensor and the connection to the BD. S.S.), just in case it starts working again.... never know.

Can't help here but I am having some what similiar problem with Omega shock sensor(s),which I posted earlier,sometimes I can walk by the truck and the shock sensor will prewarn and alarm at the same times, other times I can beat the heck out of the truck and neither pre or alarm will go off, this continues after trying 3 different sensors in different locations tie wrapped, double stick taped, and just left hanging by the wire. Bob

derek123, I tried my tests by testing just one sensor at a time so it did not work that way. Gentleman, I may half an answer to your problem. When you trigger the pre-warn on the Omega alarm (I am sure most alarms do this) 2 or 3 times in a row, the brain sets on a timer during which the pre-warn won't trigger, as a protection to not keep setting off false alarms. For example if someone is jackhammering the street near the car, the prewarn won't continue after a few times. Once the timer resets (Or even the alarm has been reset) the alarm will trip normally.