Which alarm?

[BlackHaze- 10+ year member]

Yeah, I went with the 791XV for other reasons

and im pretty sure you cant pop any hood, im getting a thicker than 0g hood lock, good luck.

 

[B@SSAN8OR 10+ year member]

what are the other reasons????

alot of people dont seem to understand that i am talking about the average consumer. not the person that is making there car into a huge lock. there are always a way around it.

even if you do have an alarm. someone cant still cut your ebrake wire and take your car with a flat bed.

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

yep.. they are battery backup.. lol

a *****... isnt it? lol

 

[B@SSAN8OR 10+ year member]

not really cause if i find the fuses to the alarm it will still disable it. and most battery backup for the brain cant handle the amperage that a remote start unit needs. and if they are battery back up sirens you find them and throw them out of the car

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

like i said... its gonna be atleast 5-10 minutes before you get my car completely silenced.

by then id have a gun to your head or a bullet in you

edit: would a 12v 7aH battery be enough for the 791xv's brain?

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

I've used all levels of Audiovox (Prestige) alarms in the past. Ranging from a $45 all-in-one unit w/ a built-in shock sensor and featured a total of three wires...a ground, a hot wire that jacked into your dome light fuse for current sensing, and a third wire that worked the LED up to my current alarm (I forget the model #) with remote start, mercury tilt switches for the trunk and hood, secondary backup, etc, etc, etc.....suffice it to say it's full-featured. I have no direct experience with DEI or Viper alarms so I can't comment on them per se....but I've never had BAD luck with the Audiovox stuff and would recommend it to NE1.

 

[HeadBussa86 10+ year member]

Good choice, I'm glad you went with quality over quantity and useless junk.

 

[B@SSAN8OR 10+ year member]

well technically a remote start alarm can draw up to 40 amps or more. so if it is going through a battery backup that is only 15 amps lets say then when you go to remote start it you battery backup with fail.

so in all reality how is a battery backup for the alarm braing going to help you?

and since you can just remove the fuses or cut the power wire after the bat backup then it is uselss.

also with one of the default features that the viper alarms come with, is that when you open the door it does like 7 chirps then full on. you can disable that feature but if the installer does not take the time to do it. then it gives you all the more time

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

why would you try to remote start it when you are trying to disarm the alarm?...

i mean to keep the brain functioning and the sensors active if the main battery in the engine bay is somehow disconnected.

 

[B@SSAN8OR 10+ year member]

i am saying if you have your back up battery hooked up to the main power on the brain..

if the unit is a remote start unit usually the main power wires for the brain are used as the remote start power wires also.

so if that is the case then the backup battery can not support the amperage draw that a remote start unit draws

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

how about if you have one of these *****es powerin it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gifhttp://www.kinetikaudio.com/hc600.asp

 

[B@SSAN8OR 10+ year member]

is that a battery or is it technically a cap?

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

its a battery...

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

... i think i won? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif lol

 

[B@SSAN8OR 10+ year member]

still yet, if the fuses are removed after your $200 battery. then they alarm is disabled