im looking to make a fake car alarm to go in my motor, as there has been a few brake ins where i park at work, just wanted to have a small black plastic case with a
AA battery in that flashes every now and then, any of you guys have any ideas?
im looking to make a fake car alarm to go in my motor, as there has been a few brake ins where i park at work, just wanted to have a small black plastic case with a
AA battery in that flashes every now and then, any of you guys have any ideas?
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you would be better doing a little DIY job with a 12v flashing blue led so it looks like a car alarm.
all you need to do is find a 12v source like the ciggy lighter and tap into that, then stick a 5mm LED in a switch cover/blanking plate
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Last time Tesco had a display on for Lucozade with about 15 flashing little lights on, powered by a CR2032, they arranged to give me them when the display was disposed of. The LED was replaced with a red one, the sole resistor on it controlled the flash rate, and it works fine for about 4 months per tidgy battery
Not much use for you now, but I thought I'd share anyway
edit: hmmm I think I actually have some spare....
edit 2: yep, I have 4 spare. Replace the x1 3V CR2032 with x2 1.5v AA batteries and it would work fine and last for a year or so.
You'd need an x2 AA battery holder, a box/enclosure of your choice, hot glue gun, probably some thin wire (I have some you can use) and a suitable red LED which you can scavenge from any old electical scrap, and some resistors if you wanted to mess with the refresh rate of the LED - I used three of the same resistors to slow it down enough to just be noticeable during a peek-in-car-to-see-whats-in-it moment. I can measure the resistance of 1 if you can't tell from the colour coding. Perhaps also a switch, but I dont find it at all annoying at night.
Last edited by smargh; 09-02-2010 at 08:37 PM.
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