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[MiniMonty]

Hi all,

I was in Halfords the other day and noticed that in amongst the cables and connectors stand the sell these tiny little flashing red lights.
12v and just dead simple - sort of a fake alarm thing if you get my drift. It's just a tiny red diode on the end of two cables.

So I was wondering how you would wire something like that into the ignition circuit so it comes ON
when the key comes out and went OFF when the ignition went on ?
My car has no alarm but I wouldn't mind it looking like it did (with one of these little red flashy jobs on display somewhere).

Best wishes
Monty

Edited by MiniMonty, 01 August 2010 - 10:54 PM.

[Ethel]

You can buy a real alarm pretty cheaply,

You might get away with wiring it to earth via a circuit that will be at the same voltage when switched on, up stream of the ignition warning light for example. - 'n a flashing LED will be pence of off Maplins, Rapid etc

[Scallywag630]

Might aswell get a real alarm.

[mini13]

you can use these,

I'd just wire it up so it is always on, they draw so little it will take months to flat the battery

http://www.rapidonli...kw/flashing led

[BLUE ITALIAN JOB]

one side is connected to a perm live/pos , other side is connected to an ignition live/pos .= light is off when ign is on and light will be on when ign is off .