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Still having trouble with thunderbolt AR

Sun Nov 12, 2017 9:34 pm

I have been having trouble trying to connect my thunderbolt to an AR control. I have made a previous topic about this and received tons of help, but I'm still getting something wrong. Another user kindly gave me this image, which I looked off of-

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Here's the problem. The siren only activates if I have my finger on the button. As soon as I release, the siren shuts down even though the timer is still running as if it's still activating. did I do something wrong with the wiring?

Here's a video of it- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tVE-Q_ ... sp=sharing
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Re: Still having trouble with thunderbolt AR

Sun Nov 12, 2017 11:06 pm

My AR had similar issues after I bought it, make sure you have a jumper between 16 and 15 on the top row as well as a jumper between 13 on the top row and 6 on the bottom row.
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Re: Still having trouble with thunderbolt AR

Sun Nov 12, 2017 11:12 pm

Just a curious question that i have, do you have a jumper in between 15 &16? it has to have one there if there is no siratrol radio present, the radio made the connection between those two for the cancel circuit when it was wired for a siratrol. hence why the timer only cycles when you have the button depressed. Image EDIT: i see that someone allready posted a answer to the OP's question.
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Re: Still having trouble with thunderbolt AR

Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:45 am

I jut installed the jumpers and it worked like a charm! Thanks for the help!
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