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TriMark Alarm

Yahoo Message Number: 72747
I was talking to Anita at Trimark about a problem I was having and found out there was more to it then I realized. I was trying to find out why every time we left the Coach and armed the system we got 3 chirps from the siren. I was trying to make the arming process quiet so as not to disturb my neighbors. You have to realize that the coach has acted this way since we picked it up new at the factory. Find out 3 chirps means the system shows a door open and does not set the alarm. I have a power door, lock and unlock only. Does anyone know what triggers the alarm for the front door? Is it the same pin switch that controls the power steps? Any help as to how this is set up would be usefull. On the TriMark I/O module J-2 pin 10 needs to see gnd before it will arm. All pin switches feed this terminal so I need to figure which one is causing the problem, the one from the front door or one of the many on the bay doors.
Thanks,

John Bennett

jbennett2@...

Re: TriMark Alarm

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Yahoo Message Number: 72751
Hello John, I just went through this a couple of months ago on my rig. What I found was that one of the pin switches on the engine compartment door was misaligned and was showing an open door signal (ground) to alarm module. I would suggest that you check all the pin switches for all bay doors and the pin switch for the entry door as well, to ensure that they are operating properly. All these switches are daisy-chained to the same line. If the switches all seem to be operational then I would suggest the line has become grounded at some point and you'll need to determine where and remedy that.

Mike

06 Intrigue #11997

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Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 72763
Mike,

I just went and checked and yes I do have a pin switch on the Pax side engine compartment door. There appears to be only 1 is that the case with yours or did they forget to install one on the Driver side.
Thanks,
John

Re: TriMark Alarm

Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 72844
Thanks Mike for the reply. I'll start with your suggestion. I believe I have 5 bay doors on each side that have pin switches that activate the bay lights, I assume these are the same ones that the alarm uses. I have the entry door switch that activates the electric steps which work fine. I don't know of any other pin switches. Are there others? Which one did you find? Thanks,
John

Re: TriMark Alarm, preflight check lists, and uh oh's!

Reply #5 –
Yahoo Message Number: 72846
Yes, that pin switch awoke my neighborhood one night when the wind came up and the engine door started to move which I found out later was the reason for my alarm system to go off. I forgot to lock the engine door latch a few nights earlier after working on the engine. The alarmed worked but I unfortunately did not hear it go off before my neighbors called me.
It took me a few weeks to realize that it there was a pin switch back there that set off the alarm since I thought it was my alarm system that was going bad so after three or four false alrams, I disconnected it from the automatic door lock system so that I could still use the key FOB to open and lock the doors from the outside.
Had that moment of Ah Ha! when I went around the coach for a preflight check and found the engine bay unlatched. Always a good idea to do that preflight check list.
Without having the habit of doing that preflight list, I learned the hard way by ripping the 50 amp electrical box off the side of my house last year right after I bought this motorhome. Our first motorhome so I was in for alot of first time 'bummers'. :(
So far the other major bummer was learning to anchor the sewer line in the dump station drain hole before pulling out the dump value....that went beyond a 'uh oh' to a 'oh sh*t' I am sure the next one in line did not appreciate the full impact of my trying to clean up the mess while trying to get everything that was hiding under the 40k lb rig.
Ripping off the wet, frozen awnings (would not roll out) while putting out the slides in below freezing weather, had to be the most expensive lesson.
Actually it would be quite funny to hear what others have learned to put on their 'I hope no one was watching' list of stupid newbie maneuvers. I have read what others have regretted doing, on this group and probably avoided a few thousand dollars of lessons from experience myself. I feel like I no longer need to have that sinking fund for stupid behavior like I did the first year.

Dallas 2004 intrigue 11688

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Reply #6 –
Yahoo Message Number: 72848
My Trimark alarm was not connected to my front door. The door had/has an automatic FOB door lock, but the alarm part was not included from the factory. I installed a magnetic switch to the door, so now the door will trigger the alarm too.

Larry, 03 Allure 30856

Re: Preflight check lists and uh oh's!

Reply #7 –
Yahoo Message Number: 72851
So Dallas... this is one I never would of thought of but could see happen easily! This would happen not only when opening the slide but also when closing the slide after having been in an area where there had been freezing rain or snow... This conjurs up all sorts of not fun scenarios trying to work on a balky/torn awning in freezing wet temperatures.
How have folks handled that before and/or what problem have occured from such a situation?

Bill, 05 Intrigue, 11881

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Reply #8 –
Yahoo Message Number: 72868
Dallas,

For some of these issues, for your next CC consider, an older Magna like mine since it is somewhat idiotproof: If you leave the shore power connected or leave any door open and try to drive away, a male voice screams a stern warning at you. A female voice informs you of about twenty other things, even the water heater flame blowing out. No eyes needed. I don't know when they discontinued this great feature. It will not tell you to secure the sewer hose tho.

Rich 2002 Magna

Re: TriMark Alarm, preflight check lists, and uh oh's!

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Yahoo Message Number: 72877
Hey Dallas. You sound like a guy who would get a big laugh from the movie "RV". They took all the dumb stuff us RV'ers do and put it all in one trip. I've never had a pin switch problem but I can't count the times I've set off the panic alarm on the coach by putting the remote in my pocket with my other keys. Best time was returning to the coach from the airport at 2:00am. I knock on wood every time I say I have not had a major Exxon Valdez incident with the black tank hose. (Knock on wood).

Bob

'05 Intrigue 11872

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Reply #10 –
Yahoo Message Number: 72889
Bob,

I have a copy of that DVD in my coach along with a copy of 'Dumb and Dumberer' (funnier than the first movie 'Dumb and dumber') in my opinion. Always a party favorite.
Oh and then there was the time that the ladder tipped over while I was on top of the motorhome. I had to eat humble pie and call my neighbor on my cell phone, who did not like where I parked my coach in the driveway in the first place, to put the ladder back up against the motorhome for me to get down. I have since moved the motorhome to a different location and installed a ladder on the back...

Dallas 04 intrigue

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Reply #11 –
Yahoo Message Number: 72891
Bob,

The issue with putting away a wet awning and then trying to pull it back out in freezing weather with the brute force of the hydraulics on the slide out was really no problem at all. It was easy to do except for paying for the damage.
The fact that the awning ripped, and the two arms that hold onto the roller got really bent (FUBR) was just a reminder not to do that again. What was really funny, if I could call it anything but that, was that I went around looking at other motorhomes with simular FUBR'd awnings in the tailgating RV prarking lot and it seemed that I was not the only one to do this to their coach.
I spoke to some of the less than sober RV tailgaiters one evening after the football game about their awnings (while we were trying to keep warm in freezing weather) and not one had figgered out how their awning arms got bent and figured they had run into something insted. There was alot of 'ah ah' moments for many of these RV'ers.
I bent mine while totally sober (as I always am ;) and it hurt alot more for me than those who were apearantly clueless. I now post a look out to tell me if there is even the slighted hesitation in the awning rolling out with the slide going out. Far less expensive and painful.

Dallas 04 intrigue 11688

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Reply #12 –
Yahoo Message Number: 72896
Thanks Dallas, good info to know! It occurs to me that even if the moisture on the awnings hadn't froze while at the camp, retracting a wet awning then driving in freezing weather would certainly freeze parts of it. Something to be aware of.
Actually, cold weather sounds REALLY good here in Austin, TX about right now...

Bill (AKA

TriMark Alarm

Reply #13 –
Yahoo Message Number: 72850
John:

I can get those switches for you if you wish contact me offline.

Best Regards,
Dave

Dave Rousey Jr./ Owner
Former CC Technician
Styleworks RV Repair &
Restoration

33070 Roberts Ct.
Coburg, OR 97408
(541) 543-7983

http://styleworksrvrepair.com dave@...