hood mercury siwtch

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Forum Name: Car Security and Convenience
Forum Discription: Car Alarms, Keyless Entries, Remote Starters, Immobilizer Bypasses, Sensors, Door Locks, Window Modules, Heated Mirrors, Heated Seats, etc.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=48304
Printed Date: May 02, 2024 at 11:17 PM

Topic: hood mercury siwtch

Posted By: ty
Subject: hood mercury siwtch
Date Posted: January 22, 2005 at 3:42 AM

I wired up my mercury switches today, one for the hood, one for the trunk. I used diodes with the strip towards the switch. It is grounded and the switches are working perfect. The only problem is that when I test the hood to see if it trips the alarm, it does, but on my 2 way pager remote it says trunk. Now I am running a viper 790 xv, I have wired up the switches to the blue H1/6 optional sensory input, I thought that the diodes were used to differentiate the trunk and the hood on the remote. I wanted to run seperate inputs through the hood sensor input but I did not recieve a remote start harness with my alarm, probably because I bought from crappy dealers.

If anyone has insight on this problem of mine I would appreciate it, I know it just shows on the remote, but I would still like to know what part of my car someone is breaking into should the situation occur.

Thanks

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Posted By: MJA1962
Date Posted: January 22, 2005 at 11:21 AM

By connecting both switches to the same alarm wire, there is no way to distinguish which one triggered the alarm. The diodes do nothing to sort this out; they are used in situations where you don't want current to backfeed different circuits.

Posted By: ty
Date Posted: January 22, 2005 at 12:48 PM

How about the wiring harness for the remote start including the hood sensor input, was I supposed to recieve that with the 790xv alarm? It has an opening on the brain, I am just wondering if the dealers cheated me out.

Thanks