Lights on alarm

[Marc311]

I liked the idea of a chime myself so I installed one, probably the same you did. Red goes to the headlight fuse, black and blue both go to the dome light fuse. Works like a charm and sounds much better than a buzzer. Using the headlight fuse is much better than taillight for resaons already stated.

Yep - the buzzer was really starting to annoy me so I switched over to the chime as well. I don't recall exactly how I wired it, but I seem to recall I did the same thing (connecting the blue and black). I stayed with the tailight location as I haven't had any issues with it there, but obviously people all use their rigs differently.

I don't think I would ever try the relay idea (as in the post above two posts above). I can think of several times when I would want the lights on when the engine is off (if only for diagnostic purposes alone).

 

[3pits]

does it matter what side of the fuses in the fuse panel you connect this to?

to answer my own question, no.

in the picture above it is a little hard to see, so here is my input...

I started by stripping more insulation off the wire

I tapped the red wire into the second fuse from the top left (left side is hot/bat, right side goes to lights)

then I tapped the black wire into the third fuse down from the top on the far right, that is for the gauges as mentioned in other posts,

the logic I followed was: what is off when the car is not running? once it is daylight I might change this black wire to something closer to the left side of the fuse panel so the buzzer sits differently, and yes it is annoying, it was only 3.59 or so at my poedunk radio shack, the chime was 10.00, they had other piezo buzzers for a little more or the same, and the one I got matched the pictures in this or another thread

great mod, thankd for figuring this out!