1997 ford explorer alarm

doing my first alarm, Avital 4400, and having one problem. From the diagram here it says that my door trigger is BLACK/ light blue. i hooked that up to the alarm and when i lift the door handle the alarm dosen't sound. any ideas? thanks

Are you sure you are on the correct wire? Does the dome light turn on when you unlock the doors with the Avital remote?

DEI recommends going to each door seperate...

"To avoid the dome light delay and dome light time-out use the separate door triggers. In the drivers kick panel find yellow/black for the drivers door, lt. GREEN/ YELLOW for the drivers rear door, and WHITE/ purple for the rear hatch. In the passengers kick panel find gray/red for the passenger front door, and pink/lt. blue for the passengers rear door. All five wires are negative trigger and must be diode isolated together."

Keep us posted.

the dome light does not turn on when i unlock/lock with the remote.

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. i hooked that up to the alarm and when i lift the door handle the alarm dosen't sound. any ideas? thanks

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Are you just Lifting the Handle or actually opening the Door?
Did you Meter the wire first?
Be sure the VIOLET wire from Avital is hooked to the BLACK/ Blue on Vehicle

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just lifting the handle. no, i did not meter the wire, and yup, it is connected to the violet wire. thanks again guys.

wow, i don't know what happened now.. i went back out and unlocked it with the avital remote, and when i opened the door the horn went off.. and continued to. i had to disconnect negative battery terminal.

The vehicle horn or the siren? If it was the horn, was the factory alarm interfaced?

vehicle horn. i have the 555f module, but was told by many all i had to do was hook up the "factory diarm wire"

got rid of the honking with the factory remote. still have the problem with the doors not activating the alarm.. guess i will have to try the diode method =/ , can someone show me a schematic or something for diodes? i've never worked with them before. Do they have to go in a certain way?

https://www.the12volt.com/diodes/diodes.asp

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Just lifting the handle on a ford will not cause the alarm to activate.  As far as I know the only vehicles where that would happen is some older gms where the door trigger is actually built into the handle. On a ford you'd have to actually open the door to trigger the alarm.

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however; on my 97 explorer if you tie into the domelight, lifting up on the driver's door handle does turn on the domelight in effect it could trigger the alarm. the horn honking was the factory alarm. if you lock the doors with any door (including rear hatch) open ,it arms the factory alarm. unlocking with an aftermarket and not hooking up factory alarm disarm will set it off.

Factory Alarm Arm | arms on lock            
Notes: Arms on lock only with door open. It is necessary to send a signal to door trigger as well as lock to arm factory alarm.

Factory Alarm Disarm | - | dk. GREEN/ purple | driver kick panel

i tried hooking up the factory disarm with no luck. this is really starting to annoy me. if i unlock with my Avital remote, and then unlock again with my factory remote will that prevent the factory alarm from going off? .. i'm ready to take the damn horn out =/

Have you verified that the factory disarm wire is functioning properly?

To test it...arm the truck with factory remote and the window down (or press lock on the door with the door open). Give it 15 seconds, reach in and open the door from the inside handle. When the alarm sounds, unlock the door using the KEY in the driver's door cylinder. If this does disarm the alarm then it is operating properly. Once you have verified that this shuts the alarm off, verify that you are on the correct wire, by metering it while turning the key. This wire will show - when the key is turned to unlock if all is well.

alright i will try that.. in the mean time, is there any other way to disable the alarm in a timely fasion, i'm tired of looking like an idiot diving into my car to get the key in the ignition to disable the alarm. thanks

fixed the factory alarm problem, now onto the door trigger problem. i bought the diodes, plan on doing that today.