chirp on demand?

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Topic: chirp on demand?

Posted By: Mixophrenia
Subject: chirp on demand?
Date Posted: April 27, 2004 at 9:31 PM

hey guys i've heard that you can hook up your aftermarket alarm siren to a button and make it chirp whenever the button is pushed.... i figured all you would have to do is run an extra wire from the + of the siren to the battery and add a button/switch in between?? but then i figured how would the siren sound if it doesn't know which frequency to produce... anyway, how would one go about doin something like this??

btw, i have a crimestopper cs-2013fm system...

THANKS!

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Posted By: sroth140
Date Posted: April 28, 2004 at 12:17 AM

you could take a relay and wire it to have a (-) activation form an extra remote channel and output a (+) signal. however, i think that will make most sirens output the normal siren sound for the duration of the channel output. maybe if the output is short enough you get a chirp.

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Posted By: Mixophrenia
Date Posted: April 28, 2004 at 11:11 AM

but what if i wanted an external button, not on the remote... say if i was driving or something... could i do it somehow that way?

Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: April 28, 2004 at 12:19 PM

exact same way...use a momentary push switch and a relay.... very simple... push switch trips the relay to power the siren

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Posted By: Mixophrenia
Date Posted: April 28, 2004 at 10:06 PM

so how exactly would i wire this up??

Posted By: tjdurham
Date Posted: April 28, 2004 at 11:49 PM

you dont need a relay just hook one wire to fused 12v and the other from the switch to the + input to siren

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Posted By: auex
Date Posted: April 29, 2004 at 12:26 AM

For that ^^^, you would need a switch that can handle around 1 amp. Also you will need a fuse. If you want a relay then wire it like this

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Posted By: Mixophrenia
Date Posted: April 29, 2004 at 5:56 AM

how would a relay make a difference? it would just make sure that the output was short?

Posted By: Mixophrenia
Date Posted: May 03, 2004 at 5:33 AM

what difference would the relay make?

Posted By: Cav3Kim
Date Posted: May 17, 2004 at 3:35 AM

it would cope with the load required by the siren, which may or may not be more than a push switch will handle

Posted By: WillTS
Date Posted: May 19, 2004 at 6:12 PM

^^^^ Exactly, that way you can use a small momentary pushbutton switch. Like https://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5fid=275-1571
that switch only accepts 0.5 amp but it is nice and small, you you could put it almost anywhere, and using it to control a relay you can control up to 30amps if you had to. Plus it is usually easier to replace a relay then it is to replace a switch. Even though your car will probably die before the relay or switch for how much you will probably use it.

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Posted By: anumeric
Date Posted: May 23, 2004 at 11:34 PM

ok in simple english just buy a button from radioshack...take some wire (speaker wire works well) attach each side to each side of the button...run one side to the battery and the other to the siren itself...you can cut the wire going to the siren and use a connector to connect all 3 ends together...push the button...now u got your booty call =)

Posted By: WillTS
Date Posted: May 24, 2004 at 8:59 AM

^^^^ if you are going to do that, just make sure that the switch that you get can handle the amperage that the siren is going to use. Otherwise you will have a fried switch in no time at all, almost instantly posted_image

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BTW I am not a professional(well at procrastination maybe)
Be Gentle, I'm new to this :-)