3 Loud Chirps after tapping into wiring

[merrillsteven]

Recently i hooked up a glove box light in my 2009 Sentra S. It works great, and I even added a pressure switch so that the light turns off when i close the glove box door. But there's one small problem... I think I may have tapped into a wire that I shouldn't have. Now, when I open the doors (not every time though, for some reason) the car emits 3 very loud high-pitched chirp sounds, and I can't find any reference to what this audible warning means. Does anyone know?

Could this be related to the battery being disconnected and reconnected?
Modified by merrillsteven at 10:03 AM 1/12/2010

[the converted]

What wires did you tap into? Did you have an alarm installed?

[merrillsteven]

I'm pretty sure i tapped into the power from the cigarette lighter 12v power supply under the shift knob.

I don't have an aftermarket alarm, but after testing which circumstances causes the 3 chirps to go off, and the fact that they are very loud, I am starting to think that disconnecting the battery has reset the dealer's "anti-tamper" alarm, which are installed on most new cars, and de-activated when they leave the lot (unless you purchase them when they offer extended warranties etc.). I'm thinking I may have to go back to the dealer to get them to re-deactivate the alarm
Modified by merrillsteven at 2:58 PM 1/14/2010

[djtorello]

Recently i hooked up a glove box light in my 2009 Sentra S. It works great, and I even added a pressure switch so that the light turns off when i close the glove box door. But there's one small problem... I think I may have tapped into a wire that I shouldn't have. Now, when I open the doors (not every time though, for some reason) the car emits 3 very loud high-pitched chirp sounds, and I can't find any reference to what this audible warning means. Does anyone know?

Could this be related to the battery being disconnected and reconnected?

Modified by merrillsteven at 10:03 AM 1/12/2010

Mildly confused.... The sentra's already have a glove box light. Turn on your parking lights when your glove box door is open. There is a light.

[merrillsteven]

no, as far as I know any model below the SL (mine is an S) doesn't come with a glovebox light, at least that's how it is on the 2009's. I completely removed the entire glovebox, and it pretty clearly had no light (headlights on or off).

[the converted]

I'm unfamiliar with the "anti tamper alarm" but if you could check what color wires you tapped into I can take a look and see exactly what it was that you tied into.

[merrillsteven]

ah, I figured it out. There is a tiny box stuck way up under the dash labeled the "ALA100FKE" that is making the beeping (its even louder when your head is under the dash, my ears are still ringing!). Apparently it is a "Dual-Zone Shock Sensor Add-On for OEM Factory Security Systems" made by a company called Magnadyne. It has a tiny knob on it labeled "sensitivity" and I turned that to "min" and that stopped the beeping. But i still haven't figured out how to reset it to whatever mode it was in before we unplugged the battery. Oh well, as long as the beeping has stopped, problem solved I think.

Here's a link to this LOUD little box

http://www.magnadyne.com/index...D=153