power sounder

z22_cariad

My car aint got one but I got hold of one. I cwnt get it open. Sny advice pls. Also do you know what parts I need once its open.

Cheers in advance

evocarlos

there a sealed unit and have to be cut open
if its older than 5 years bin it the batteries would have already destroyed the pcb
maplins sell the batterys but will need to be bodged to fit

pottsey

evocarlos said:
there a sealed unit and have to be cut open
if its older than 5 years bin it the batteries would have already destroyed the pcb
maplins sell the batterys but will need to be bodged to fit

and if there anything like the Vectra power sounders they have a habit of self combusting

evocarlos

pottsey said:
and if they're anything like the Vectra power sounders they have a habit of self combusting

there not the same unit the self combusting one has 2 AA batteries in it but this type (astra/vec c) melt the +12v wire into the car thru the bulkhead connector when the battery in the sounder leck acid on the pcb

if it starts going off randomly in the night its time to replace/repair but if its randomly going off then it prolly already too late

heres how i fixed up a good one i bought
knife round the groove

pop it open

unsolder old batteries and fit new ones

make water proof 🙂

glue it back together with tigerseal

you can see here where mine had made the copper black as after the car was about 5 years old it started going off in the night then after 3 days of putting up with it the alarm stopped working from mass failure of the unit it got fixed in my project freeze my ass off 🙂 been working great ever since fixing it

carson_sri

is the power sounder something to do with the alarm.