Bike Alarms.

I quite like my "Banshee"

If I lose the fob or the battery dies, there's quite a nifty manual
method to deactivate the alarm involving switching off and on the
ignition with a 4 figure PIN.

Anyone else seen a system like this?

 

<Foreboding tone>

You won't.

 

ISTR my old Datatool had something similar.

Still[1] got nicked though.

[1] Totally still. No gear lever, coolant, clutch lever etc etc etc.

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Try it now before it's too late. Your local Datatool dealer can wave a
magic wand over it if necessary.

I'll have to get round to sorting mine out soon...

 

BGN - I had this a couple of years ago when I got a bike with a Sys.
3. I asked Datatool if there was anything I could do and they said....

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If you have purchased a bike with a Datatool System3 or S4 alarm
already installed, they can be programmed with a PIN override. If the
previous owner set a pin originally, but has either forgotten to pass
on the PIN or has forgotten the PIN themselves, you will have to take
your bike to your nearest Datatool dealer, where they will perform a
procedure known as a ‘PIN DUMP’. This will drain any Pin from the
system. Once this has been performed, either you or the dealer can set
a PIN of your choosing (4 digits long & 1-9).


In some instances the previous/original owner may have not set a PIN,
if you are not in contact with the previous owner and aren’t sure
weather they set one. The best thing to do is try the ‘Initial Pin
Entry’ procedure on page 6 of the user guide. If you are unsuccessful
setting a pin, it is more than likely that a PIN has been previously
set.

Please use the ‘Where’s my nearest dealer?’ facility on our website
www.datatool.co.uk to locate your nearest 10 Datatool dealers.


Customer Service Supervisor
Datatool UK

 

Hello - I seem to suffer from having the same name as someone more
famous here - my rare delurks have resulted in calls of "wow! - long-
time no see" before. However, i suspect these cries are aimed at
someone else (unless of course you are simply being very enthusiastic
in your welcoming, in which case, I have been fine, thanks for
asking).

Darren2

 

Maybe you need a proper .sig: "No, I am not *that* Daz Lewis!"

 

*cough*

*I'm* Daz Lewis

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*I'm* Daz Lewis. And so's my wife.

 

In communiqué <1ird439.1j97ulaltco35N%>,

<blog>

Cunty bollocks. I thought the Clifford alarm on the MX5 was
non-functioning - not that I have even bothered to set it before.

Haven't used it for 10 days or so and on trying to start it found the
battery nearly flat. A few laboured turns and no go. On switching off
again a banshee melody of various siren modes was set off.

Shades of the SO Pug 306. I had to totally disable the one on that in
the end. At least this one stopped eventually. The plip on the key ring
does actually seem to do something to my amazement. I hadn't
experimented with it before. Once bitten with shite old alarms, twice
shy.

Just hoping the immobiliser hasn't cut in and that it will be OK once
the battery is charged up again. I suppose I ought to treat it to a new
one, but it is a special small vented job not much bigger than the
battery the Mille had.

Fingers crossed.

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You were right the first time but it always makes me laugh so keep
posting as dazlewis.

 

<Sweeping statement>

Alarms and immobilisers, on bikes, are more trouble than they're worth.

</ss>

 

In communiqué <1irftrg.5htw8e1uwmpjsN%>,

I'm not in a position to comment from experience, but I suspect you may
be right.

Anyway, the Mazda was OK. I don't know if the after market Clifford
alarm is linked to the OEM immobiliser (chip in key, not a separate
plip). I hope never to find out.


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http://www.swiftcomm.co.uk/alt4/

 

@ps-fisher.demon.co.uk:

The Westco AGM will still go flat if you leave it long enough with an alarm
in circuit.

Any charger will top up a partially discharged AGM battery. I gave mine an
overnight session on the Optimate last week as I haven't been able to ride
the bike since July.

If you deep discharge an AGM battery then you will need a particular type
of charger. An Optimate does not have enough wattage to wake one up,
according to posts on UKGSer.

Does the smog lift in Wolverhampton enough for one of those Maplin
photocell chargers to be of any use?

 

Quite possibly an older traditional charger with no fancy control
bollocks on it - just raw DC and half-wave at that. The pulsing nature
of the unsmoothed DC suits LA cells better than smoothed and I wonder if
AGM cells are similar - but perhaps not for in-service use.

 

No idea. I don't let mine go flat either. As recent events show, it takes
over 4 months for the voltage to drop significantly, should the bike not be
used for a while. 24 hours on the weedy output Optimate gets it back to
optimum voltage.

These AGM batteries are used in total loss applications such as karts &
robots. I'm sure you could find a forum with the answer...