Caravan with car alarm fitted ????

Great idea if you leave your van in the front yard at home, otherwise I would look at a unit that calls your mobile ( Telstra if bush camping) if someone breaks in to your van, or your van is moved out of an electronic GPS fence. Unit that we have, you can see your van being driven down the road ( on a map providing its in a Telstra 3G coverage area) cost $950, 6 or so years ago now seen them available for around $200.( but with less options)

Of course you need a Telstra sim card from memory cost $30 for 6 months.

Peter

you certainly can. use reed switches on windows and doors, and turn the sensitivity down on the glass breaking sensors, or use ultra sonic movement sensors, make sure the battery is always charged,

Hungry Rottweiler.

I don't think a car alarm is the appropriate type of alarm. They are designed to integrate with the ignition circuit of the vehicle. You would have to simulate that to be able to initiate the switching. Also do car alarms come with a remote control pad for operation or do most of them rely upon the ignition being switched on to disarm them?

I think you will find better models out there from places like Jaycar or specialist alarm companies. A lot of these will have their own batteries so you will not have to worry about the house battery condition (actually most vans do not have batteries, you will see batteries in many of the vans at shows but a lot of those are just part of the options.) Just make sure that the alarm comes with a movement sensor (even some car alarms came without those.)

We have fitted a normal household alarm that sensors when the door is opened......(there is a default time for you to enter and punch in the code to disarm as usual)

The alarm when activated emits the normal loud screech etc which in turn is picked up by a UHF radio inside the 'van on a VOX standby.......just pick a quiet channel in the area u are in at the time

When leaving the 'van take a handheld UHF with you....obviously on that channel..........limited by the distance you are from the 'van.......but in town or bush camping the chances are you will be within range.....many km's in other words

Works well on test....just hope I dont hear it in real life and come back for the confrontation

Other options are the GPS devices so if in Telstra range you can track on your mobile where it is.....trouble is it is gone then!.

A unit that would lock the electric brakes on if unauthorised entry or movement occurs would possibly be an idea? Any clever inventors out there?

one company I used to buy allarm gear from years ago had a little 3 sector pannel that they used to sell heaps of into flats and caravans.

It was about the size of a fat double switch plate and all on 1 PCB.

For a caravan ya realy don't need anything too complicated.

in the past ya would have lashed something up out of a bell timer module.

One thing to be sure off...put all the noisemakers inside the van....it works in buildings too.

The object of the exercise is to scare the Bjesus out of them, if that fails rip their ears off.

A couple or 4 120db screamers inside a caravan and no one wants to be in there long.

I did one isntall and when I tested the screamers the office girl fell off her chair..inspite of being warned

cheers

Have an alarm

Called Sleep Dog

But makes a lot of noise when woken especially if has not been fed

Apart from my serious snake phobia I would suggest a couple of reptilian traveling companions :-)

A domestic alarm with a few additional screamers would usually do the trick

Most grubs who do this kind of thing would quickly move to a softer easier target.

Jaycar sell an alarm for vans complete with remote for turning on and off. Works similar to a house alarm.