If it ain't one thing its another. Just as I got better my dog got sick and chasing around cleaning up after a 15 lb mutt with digestive issues at all hours will cut down on the hours available. I use to knock out alarm remote starts in a few hours but I have realized that my standards have changed a bit on wiring standards which accounts for a lot of the time. I don't like bare unlabeled wires anymore so any wires I run are in color coded techflex that is taped and heatshrinked on each end as well as labels in a few spots where I have a lot of wiring meeting.
It took about 90 mins to do that to these three wires I had to run, Have you ever installed an alarm?
There were at least two delays while I waited on techflex. While that happened I found another project in the door. I had been wanting to mount the speaker for my remote radar detector in the sail panel behind the mirror. I didn't think it would be a big deal till I took the little square speaker pod that the radar speaker was mounted inside of and was amazed to see it had little to no mounting on a small speaker. If it were not for my cnc to rescue me I am not sure I would have finished this but I was able to cut two pieces of .12" thick acrylic with a .05" ridge/pocket around the circle. I can now mount the speaker between the pieces so it rests on that ridge and then glued it back together.
When I got to this point I could not help but think that there was that space around the speaker and wondered what I could do with it that would be cool.
I decided to make it light up with the radar detector warning so what I did was fire up the handy dandy cnc again and machined two rings of the .12 thick acrylic to mount the leds in, and then machined a slightly larger ring out of some of the scrap hdpe I used to plug the hole in the door to diffuse the led light. But then that got me thinking that it needed to go through the grill on the mach pod and the cloth material on it would block most of it out. So I came up with a better way of finishing them in my opinion. Forgive the orange peel I plan on doing a wet sand and polish once it cures. Its actually a black pearl paint that gives a neat pop when the light hits it.
But more importantly, the lights for the radar detector.
Tell me ya hate that shit..... Realistically the main display mounted in the clock pod is what I have always used and the led was more of just a bonus.
I wish I could show you more of the alarm with out compromising the security. I came up with a really sweet secondary starter kill that I wish I could show off. Its in direct view and yet if it someone were to start messing with stuff they might trip it by accident, but the interior siren will prevent that. 108 db of super high pitch shrilling that is also called an interior pain generator. I also wish I could show off where it will be as it could not be in a louder location. In previous installs I just had it tucked under the dash but I know for that there that it was loud enough to prevent some friends from messing with me one day when I left the back window of my truck open. The warning chirps from it were enough to make them get out. I think I can finish it up tomorrow or the next day(fingers crossed)