Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Step1
How to install it?
We recommend having a professional alarm shop install this item for you. You do risk damaging your car or alarm if you decide to install it yourself. But if you insist, here’s how in layman’s term.
1st. Some alarms have an extra sensor input. Most car alarms don’t. If your car alarm has an extra sensor input wire, use it. If not, then you’ll need to locate on the alarm. Locate the shock sensor on the alarm. The shock sensor will have from 3 to 4 wires coming from the car alarm brain. Usually its black, red, blue, and, green.
Step2
Splice the red wire of the glass sensor to the red wire of the shock sensor.
(If you’re using the extra sensor input wire, then connect the red wire of the glass sensor to 12 volt constant positive)
Step3
Splice the black wire of the glass sensor to the black wire of the shock sensor
(If you’re using the extra sensor input wire, then connect the black wire of the glass sensor to a negative when armed wire of the car alarm. This negative when armed wire is usually colored orange. If your car alarm does not have this wire, then you can connect it to constant ground. By doing so, the Glass sensor will always be on. There will be a very small battery drain but it shouldn’t be too bad.)
Step4
Connect the blue wire from the glass sensor and connect it to the blue wire of the shock sensor. Be sure to use a diode between this connection to prevent feedback that will cause false alarms. Note* I have hooked the glass sensor up many times without a diode and it still worked fine with no false alarms.
It’s only a 3 wire hookup so this should be easy.
Step5
Now fine tune the glass sensor by adjusting the sensitivity knob. Turn it clockwise for higher sensitivity and counter clockwise for less sensitivity.
You’ll need to test it each time you make an adjustment by arming the alarm, waiting about 1 minute and then tapping on the glass with a metal object.
The reason for the one minute wait is because asianwolf car alarms has an intelligent circuit delay that will allow other components (such as window rollup modules) to finish their function before activating the sensors. This will prevent the alarm from detecting itself and giving a false alarm.