How to Integrate Doors into an Alarm System to Open

December 20th, 2006

It is doable to ingest the agent of your signal grouping not only to unlock the doors but to pop them open as well.

Look Before You Leap

Instructions

STEP 1: Check the far of your signal grouping as substantially as the alarm. Does the agent allow door lock/unlock keyless entry or buttons to curb helper features? If so, you can travel with the project. You poverty two buttons to pop two doors. If your car has quaternary doors, you poverty quaternary buttons — one for apiece door.
STEP 2: Gather the following tools and materials: solenoids for apiece door, screws, screwdrivers, drill, accommodate crimps, stripper, 12 judge electrical wire, door panel popper, 1-inch to 1-1/2-inch onerous obligation wind springs.
STEP 3: Read the manual that come with the solenoid and your alarm.

The Installation

Instructions

STEP 1: Pop the door panel soured the door.
STEP 2: Find a positioning for the solenoid exclusive the door. You poverty to increase the solenoid securely to metal. Locate it as close to the door opening execution as doable because you will be process a telegram from the solenoid to the opening mechanism. Make destined that the solenoid is allied so that it offers a straightforward vantage kinda than an angled pull.
STEP 3: Drill a mess in the door opening mechanism.
STEP 4: Loop the telegram finished the mess and backwards to the solenoid. Crimp the telegram tight.
STEP 5: Route the wires from the solenoid finished the door wad into the entireness rise to the squawk panel.
STEP 6: Connect the causing accommodate to the keyless entry or helper outputs of the alarm’s curb module.
STEP 7: Touch the terminals of a 12 volt shelling to the noesis lead to analyse if the solenoid works. The door should pop but not open. You will have to add springs to get the doors to actually pop open.
STEP 8: Make destined that the outflow will sound without obstructing the door from opening and closing. You do this by attractive unreal and folding it so that it is 1-inch thick. Tape the unreal to the panel in face of the door and close the door. If the door closes okay, proceed. If not, you haw not be able to have the door actually pop open. However, it will open using the solenoid.
STEP 9: Mount one modify of the outflow to the panel in face of the door and the another modify to the door.
STEP 10: Add a near fix alter to the causing accommodate that leads to the alarm. Tap noesis for the alter from the primer block. If something should hap to the signal or you lose your transmitter, you can ingest this fix to pop open the door. Attach the fix to a bonded Atlantic on the right of the car.
STEP 11: Run a constructive and perverse lead from the car’s shelling to a positioning meet right the car. If the shelling should go dead, you can ingest connector wires on these leads to cater sufficiency noesis so that you can pop open the doors. Use terminators on the leads so that they can’t touch together.
STEP 12: Connect the noesis accommodate of the solenoid to the car’s shelling so you get unceasing noesis to the solenoid and enter the causing accommodate to the helper production or keyless entry production of the alarm.
STEP 13: Ground the solenoid to decent metal exclusive the traveller compartment of the car.