Viper 350HV hood pinswitch

I've had the alarm in for a few weeks, and it was working fine. This morning, the alarm started having all kinds of false alarms, and was giving me the beep that signals that a zone is open. The door pinswitches are fine, so all that was left the hood pinswitch. The switch was due up for replacement anyway, but when I finally did, it doesn't work. I traced the wire from the brain to the switch, it's all intact. However, it won't set off the alarm when triggered, nor will the brain even acknowledge that it's there (it doesn't give me the "open zone" beep when I arm the alarm with the hood open.) Any ideas as to what may be wrong? Everything else in the alarm functions perfectly.

what about the trunk switch. Are the trunk & hood on the same input. If they are maybe a bad diode.

There is no trunk switch...i'm waiting until I order a motor so I can do my trunk release and pinswitch at the same time....

Maybe try another switch. Put a meter to the switch and ground see if you get countiunty. Depending on your car you trunk switch may be right in the kick panel. since you got your car apart (im guessing, since trying to figure out the hood switch) be less work in the future\.

since the 2nd switch aint working, maybe the first one was good and the problem lies in the brain.

I take it there's no way in determing if the brain is at fault though....it's not like they're cheap....

Not sure on that, i would like to know. Did you install the alarm or had a shop do it. If a shop did it take it back, in not call the company back up and se what they will do. i seen severl places that they put a year waranty on it. If comes down to it well you can send it back for waht ever reason and dont want to buy a new one, use your door trigger or something. Hope some one will post soon how to test the alarm see if it bad or not.

Did the install myself....

Well I metered the wire, and it gives me 12 volts constantly, doesn't change when I arm or diarm the alarm...is that what a a hood/trunk sensor wire is supposed to put out? I lost my installation manual, so I can't reference it...