motorcycle alarm, need tutorial
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Forum Name: Motorcycle Electronics
Forum Discription: Installing Stereos, Alarms, Remote Starters, Lights, Garage Door Openers and other electronics on motorcycles.
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Printed Date: May 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Topic: motorcycle alarm, need tutorial
Posted By: ryanrex
Subject: motorcycle alarm, need tutorial
Date Posted: March 10, 2007 at 7:48 PM
Hi guys, your great and I need some help! I've been wiring stereo's for a good part of my life, alarms, thats another story! So I bought one of those Aolin Alarms off ebay for my motorcycle and needed a little concrete guidence to help me get the sucker in there, where Iam located there is no mechanic, especially motorcycle electric's for a good 200 miles, so I have to go it alone! I've attached the schematics and a pic of the harness, if anyone can kinda walk me through a typical install I will owe them the world!
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Posted By: ryanrex
Date Posted: March 10, 2007 at 7:51 PM
Posted By: ryanrex
Date Posted: March 10, 2007 at 7:55 PM
Posted By: dualsport
Date Posted: March 11, 2007 at 8:37 PM
Are you planning to install it as a remote starter or are you going to just use the alarm and ignition kill function of it?
There's no indication that there's any safeties built into it for remote starting, so I wouldn't use it for that. Use it just for the alarm, flashing lights, and noisemaker, but not the RS.
Posted By: ryanrex
Date Posted: March 11, 2007 at 11:34 PM
I'd like to use the remote starter as it pretty cold up here and it takes my bike a good while to warm up, I'd need to make sure I leave it in park! Whats the deal with the scissors? Any help would be great guys! So far Dual sport is a winning!!
Posted By: ryanrex
Date Posted: March 11, 2007 at 11:57 PM
Oh yeah, the safety mechanisim in place is that the bike won't start when its in gear and the kickstand is down, so that should take care of that
Posted By: dualsport
Date Posted: March 12, 2007 at 12:04 AM
Problem is that you might be sure to leave it in park, but you can't be sure someone else didn't click it down into gear without you knowing.
Wouldn't be good to hit the remote and then watch it lurch off the sidestand onto the ground..
The unit doesn't seem to have an input to detect something like a neutral switch, otherwise you could have used that to detect if it's safe to start. Is the bike fuel injected? If not, and you need to operate a choke or enrichment lever, it wouldn't do any good anyway, since the RS won't do that for you.
I think any benefits from having an RS on a bike are pretty minor compared to the potential drawbacks. It's not like there's a heating system to warm up the interior, like on a car, so you're going to sit on a cold seat in either case.
The scissor in the diagram is just saying you would cut the line from the bike's ignition switch output going out to the ignition circuit, giving control through the relay with the green wire. It lets the alarm unit open or close the connection to disable or enable the ignition.
You'd need to bench test it first, but the other scissor shown is probably to open up the kill switch line that normally disables the ignition when the ignition switch is off. If it were left connected, the remote start wouldn't work even if it supplied power to the ignition.
What's strange is that they seem to presume the colors of the wiring from the ignition switch is the same on all the bikes, which isn't the case. You'll have to dig around for information on your specific bike to find the right wires to hook up to.
Posted By: dualsport
Date Posted: March 12, 2007 at 12:07 AM
ryanrex wrote:
Oh yeah, the safety mechanisim in place is that the bike won't start when its in gear and the kickstand is down, so that should take care of that
If you wire in at the right point so the interlock is still functional, it might work then. So there's no choke to contend with when you start?
Posted By: ryanrex
Date Posted: March 12, 2007 at 2:03 PM
I've installed an automatic choke so that should work
Posted By: ryanrex
Date Posted: March 12, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Alright, so here's as far as I get, I know the big red coming out of the relays is a straight positive hook-up.
The big blue coming out of the relays comes on for 3secs when I hit the remote start so I would hook this up to the starter?
The Big orange and big and green ones turn on and stay on when the remote start is hit, would I cut the ignition on wire and place one at each end?
Still not sure about grey and pink. Any help?
Posted By: dualsport
Date Posted: March 12, 2007 at 9:41 PM
The blue would have to hook up to where your start button is, not to the starter, since that's the one that should be interlocked. Find the wire that goes to 12V when you hit the starter button.
The thick orange coming out from the top of the relay gets connected to the ignition switch (+) output, and also to the green wire at the top of the third relay (may come preconnected, don't know if you're supposed to do it yourself).
If you cut the ignition wire, the green wire coming out from the bottom of the relay connects to the other side of the cut, away from the ign switch. The green relay is normally deenergized, and passes the current from the orange to the green to restore the connection you cut.
The grey and pink look like they're supposed to be normally connected together, and when remote starting, open up, to disable the ignition kill from the keyswitch. If your bike doesn't have a line that's grounded to kill the ignition when the ignition is locked then you wouldn't need it.
You installed an automatic choke? That'd be a neat trick, now how did you manage that?
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