tilt sensor for hood trigger

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Topic: tilt sensor for hood trigger

Posted By: c.c.autospa
Subject: tilt sensor for hood trigger
Date Posted: March 25, 2007 at 10:21 AM

I have a 2002 impala that I installed a clifford intelliguard 750 on, but never hooked up the hood trigger wire. I just recerntly installed intellistart 4 and wanted to hooked up the hood trigger wire so my car wont remote start with the hood open. A friend of mine suggested that I use a tilt sensor instead of a pin for the hood trigger. The problem is, that tilt sensor is usually used for trunk triggers and comes with 2 wires with no diagram and I have no idea on how to hook it up. 1 wire is solid black and the other is BLACK/ gray. Has anyone else ever used this tilt sensor normally used for trunk triggers for a hood trigger, if so, could tell which wire is which? Thanks!

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CEDRIC

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Posted By: spookiestylez
Date Posted: March 25, 2007 at 11:32 AM

One wire to ground and the other will be your (-) shutdown trigger.

You can also look for instructions for a Directed 8613 tilt switch

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RTFM

Posted By: jim hunter
Date Posted: March 26, 2007 at 10:03 PM

tilt switch can be used any where a tilting trigger is needed, just do as spook says, 1 wire to ground other to -shutdown input on remote start, if you are using it to also trigger alarm i recommend putting 2 diodes in line with the stripe facing the tilt switch and then the non striped ends going to the - shutdown on remote start and the - hood/trunk trigger input on alarm