Tent alarm

8 ft snake works well lol. Someone suggested used a door alarm type, the one that sounds when you walk through them.

Josh

G'day Wim,

yes there is a tent alarm. They are very much like a padlock and lock the zip tabs together. They sound an audible alarm if disturbed. Not sure of the cost but I think somewhere between $60-$100. I've seen them at Anaconda and some of the outdoor stores such as Paddy Pallin. There is also one for wrapping around your pack so you could adapt that as well.

Hope that helps.

Cheers Mick

I have used a personal alarm (of the type that have a pin, and when you pull it out it gives off a very loud, shrill sound). Anchour it, tie the pin to the tent flap so that it is tight-ish. Someone enters the tent the alarm goes off .. and if luck is on your side, they will also have permanent partial hearing loss.

Jack

As long as you have 12v supply in your van ... any of the normal house alarms will work.

dick smith / jaycar etc have a range of battery operated PIR types suitable for tent applications.

I used a roof rack alarm which would be triggered if the weight of my windsurfing boards were lifted, this was connected to my cars air horns. The trigger was simply 4 small micro switches. I used them in my tent much the same - connected to the car airhorns. If the gear in the tent was disturbed or if the wires to the car were cut - the air horns would sound.

It was a pretty clunky system, probably more of a deterrent, but I never had anything stolen.

have fun

Thanks to all for the replies.
Food for thought.

regards

I looked into this and there are a couple of things on the market but I was after an infrared motion sensor type thing. Just to wake me up when there’s some sort of animal near the camp sitethe alarm will sound or a light will turn on. Pretty sure JayCar sells something like that but it was all too hard in the end for me to follow up

In the old American war movies they used an empty baked beans can with a couple of stones in it and the can tied to a bit of string. Can rattled when nthe string moved - well it always worked in the movies :-))

Just a thought but where will you be when the alarm goes off?
It's bad enough being on a campsite with gennies going.

cheers Eric

Bunnings sell a Wireless system for abt $70 that use a PIR sensor.

Doberman Infrared Perimeter alarm