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[Andy B]

I fitted a brand new power sounder to my car last year sometime. I wanted to start the car today to attack the manifold to down pipe exhaust leak, needless to say, the battery was a flat as a very flat thing. So I connected my battery charger up, and shortly after the PS kept chirping & wailing every now & then for half a sec or so. I tried to bear with it but for the neighbours' sake I unplugged it. A few hours later after there was a bit of charge in the main battery I tried again - same as before.
I'm glad I spent £60 ( ) on something that has lasted a year 


and the downpipe to manifold gaskets are £10odd each! 

[omegod]

Never even considered replacing mine,, just threw them all as far as I can throw them. 

A year is crap though, was there a build date on it?

[Andy B]

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A year is crap though, was there a build date on it?

I never even thought to look, but yes there is - 10/08/10 

[omegod]

Not sure how 2 years on a shelf would have affected it

[Kevin Wood]

Might be worth leaving it plugged in to see if it behaves once its' internal battery has charged back up, but tricky if it's going to be wailing all the time. Tried wrapping it in a towel?

[Andy B]

Might be worth leaving it plugged in to see if it behaves once its' internal battery has charged back up, but tricky if it's going to be wailing all the time. Tried wrapping it in a towel?

Kinda what I was thinking, but the trill was p'ing me off 

[Andy B]

The sounder itself is U/S. When plugged in & quiet, you just need to touch the casing & it'll trigger the alarm. 

I'll take a hacksaw to it & look see. 

[tunnie]

Glad I binned all of ones in ours, amount of times battery has been whipped off, flat battery and other things. Annoyed the hell out of me too, useless bloody things!

[Andy B]

Cut open & there's nothing to see.   

[Kevin Wood]

It might have suffered the same fate as mine. Corrosion from the batteries spread up the connector pins into the connector on the car loom making that dodgy. Even a decent PS on my car has a hair trigger due to a dodgy connector on the loom. Keep meaning to ask AndyC if a new connector is available.

[Dave DND]

No reason why that powersounder won`t come back to life with a bit of charge - it may sound whilst charging it up, but thats the price you are going to have to pay for letting the main vehicle battery go flat.

They are not supposed to do that, and wern`t designed to do that - hence problems ! 

Keep battery charged and all should be well.

[Andy B]

No reason why that powersounder won`t come back to life with a bit of charge - it may sound whilst charging it up, but thats the price you are going to have to pay for letting the main vehicle battery go flat.

They are not supposed to do that, and wern`t designed to do that - hence problems ! 

Keep battery charged and all should be well.

Thanks Dave. I charged the car's battery over night & so far, I've had it connected to the car with no problems (glued it back together with Sikaflex  )

So far so good. 

[pscocoa]

Had same thing with mine - replaced car battery which was knackerred and power sounder returned to normal

[SR-71Blackbird]

Not to scare you but when mine was making noises on I asked on here and some people mentioned fires when it totally failed so Mark took it out for me and haven't looked back

[Magwheels]

Hmm interesting, so where is the power sounder supposed to be on a 95 CDX diesel estate then?

I did look under the scuttle but it doesn't seem to be there and no wiring either!

I better have a look at mine as there battery is fairly new and drops quite a bit of charge after standing for a while.

Its never gone off when I have been doing various things to the car so I would assume its knackered.