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Alarm
I am thinking about getting an alarm for my scooter.
I park next to my house so someone walking by might see it.
If the alarm goes off and I am home I will hear it.
Has anyone used something like this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042V ... uyssupe-20
I park next to my house so someone walking by might see it.
If the alarm goes off and I am home I will hear it.
Has anyone used something like this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042V ... uyssupe-20
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I've thought about the Gorilla alarm before, but since I'm lazy 95% of the time I went with the Xena disk lock alarm. I've been very happy with it. Although I do like the gorillas key fob notification if your alarm goes off and your out of hearing range.
With a Gorilla a dedicated thief (if given enough time) would know to immediately disconnect the battery. Not so easy with the Xena, you'd have to break it open to get it to stop and I doubt common scooter thieves would have the tools on hand to do that.
With a Gorilla a dedicated thief (if given enough time) would know to immediately disconnect the battery. Not so easy with the Xena, you'd have to break it open to get it to stop and I doubt common scooter thieves would have the tools on hand to do that.
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Also bear in mind that unless you ride regularly and have a mild climate you'll be slowly killing your battery. No juice and the scooter is unprotected.
If you search on here you'll find someone who installed one. Read that post, maybe PM the guy and then you'll get a better idea if this workable for you.
If you search on here you'll find someone who installed one. Read that post, maybe PM the guy and then you'll get a better idea if this workable for you.
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For what it's worth, I picked up this alarm for under 20 bucks via Deal Extreme: http://dx.com/p/professional-waterproof ... ack-108984
I didn't know what to expect but am actually pretty impressed. I don't have anything wired into the scooter yet, but threw on the included nine volt under the seat (which muffled it slightly) but is still plenty audible. I'd think it'd be enough to draw attention, and certainly make someone think twice about messing with the scoot.
It definitely offers some piece of mind. I guess I'll wire it into the scooter so I can have the whole flashing lights deal too. Shipping took a couple weeks.
I didn't know what to expect but am actually pretty impressed. I don't have anything wired into the scooter yet, but threw on the included nine volt under the seat (which muffled it slightly) but is still plenty audible. I'd think it'd be enough to draw attention, and certainly make someone think twice about messing with the scoot.
It definitely offers some piece of mind. I guess I'll wire it into the scooter so I can have the whole flashing lights deal too. Shipping took a couple weeks.
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Just wanted to make sure you guys got a chance to see my super sweet (and super temporary) alarm "install."
http://imgur.com/wkSOtcS
http://imgur.com/wkSOtcS
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Now that's simple! It would be super easy to install that under the front cover too, it would be louder and you can easily plug it into an existing power source. Adding a hidden toggle would be necessary though.NikVee wrote:Just wanted to make sure you guys got a chance to see my super sweet (and super temporary) alarm "install."
http://imgur.com/wkSOtcS
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They replace the two screws that hold the battery cover on. They use an oddball hole pattern that requires a specialized socket or driver to remove, thus making it harder to remove the battery cover and either (a) steal the battery or (b) clip the alarm's power wire, assuming you ran the power wire directly to the battery as Gorilla shows in their install doc.
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I have tamper resistant screws. Got them after my battery was stolen. No problems since, though I'm suspicious that the screws are the reason (correlation vs. causation). The only annoying thing about that is that you can't just order two, so I had like 20+ or something like that... I have no idea where they went though.PeteH wrote:They replace the two screws that hold the battery cover on. They use an oddball hole pattern that requires a specialized socket or driver to remove, thus making it harder to remove the battery cover and either (a) steal the battery or (b) clip the alarm's power wire, assuming you ran the power wire directly to the battery as Gorilla shows in their install doc.
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so I take it if you have a dead battery, you'll need to have the special screw driver to get it replaced or jumped?PeteH wrote:They replace the two screws that hold the battery cover on. They use an oddball hole pattern that requires a specialized socket or driver to remove, thus making it harder to remove the battery cover and either (a) steal the battery or (b) clip the alarm's power wire, assuming you ran the power wire directly to the battery as Gorilla shows in their install doc.
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See picture 39/40 in this thread (picture 39/40 is about 1/2 way through the thread). It's just a little bit you can put in a nut driver. I just keep an extra of the security bit in my pet carrier.climbguy wrote:so I take it if you have a dead battery, you'll need to have the special screw driver to get it replaced or jumped?PeteH wrote:They replace the two screws that hold the battery cover on. They use an oddball hole pattern that requires a specialized socket or driver to remove, thus making it harder to remove the battery cover and either (a) steal the battery or (b) clip the alarm's power wire, assuming you ran the power wire directly to the battery as Gorilla shows in their install doc.
A thief with needle nose vise grips could still get the bolts off, but it's unlikely they would be carrying them.
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