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dlm876

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Posted: August 16, 2005 at 5:13 PM / IP Logged

I want to connect my alarm to my camper shells lift up hatch in the back. I was thinkink of just putting a pin switch on it but there doesn't look like much room to drill a hole between the shell and the seal of the hatch. Does any one know what I should do?

schmoo

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Posted: August 16, 2005 at 6:04 PM / IP Logged

use a magnetic reed switch, such as the ones used to protect windows in home security.

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dlm876

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Posted: August 16, 2005 at 11:49 PM / IP Logged

How about a Mercury Tilt Switch? Will that work?

endless talent

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Posted: August 17, 2005 at 12:00 AM / IP Logged

A Mercury switch will work, but if a potential thief could see it, and knows what they are doing, they will know that a slight tilt would not set it off, as the only way to install it to be unaffected by parking on hills, etc. will be so that the door would have to swing up to at least a 45 degree angle or so. A reed switch is the best way to go, and will work no matter on a hill or not, plus it will send the appropriate trigger the second the switch is separated more than a 1/2" or so. If you're going to go through the trouble to wire something up, you might as well do it right.

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dlm876

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Posted: August 17, 2005 at 4:16 PM / IP Logged

If I do use a pin switch then is the one blue wire the installer left me all I need to connect to the pin switch. He said the one blue wire is all I need to connect to the pin switch. Is that true?

Masta N

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Posted: August 17, 2005 at 4:45 PM / IP Logged

I did a mercury switch on the handle...When the handle was turned enough to open, the alarm was triggered. I used one of the mercury switches which was black to blend it in with the inside handle.

dlm876

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Posted: August 17, 2005 at 8:34 PM / IP Logged

Can I hook up the reed switch with only the one wire? I thought it takes two? I have only one blue wire that the installer said to hook to a pin switch?

dlm876

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Posted: August 17, 2005 at 8:51 PM / IP Logged

Its a 2002 Dodge Ram1500 quad cab with a phoneix digital alarm

dlm876

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Posted: August 17, 2005 at 9:11 PM / IP Logged

I just talked to my friend who installed it and he said the wire is for a pin switch on a trunk but can be used on the shell. He said its called a trigger for the trunk not door trigger. To me it sound like the same thing but then again I don't now much about alarms. He also said it was a negitive trigger wire.

dlm876

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Posted: August 17, 2005 at 9:44 PM / IP Logged

Don't understand about "wire to the N/C at rest on the switch"

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