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Looking for ideas for making an open bay door warning. Each door has a switch which turns that bay LED light on when opened. What is the best way to send a warning to the driver?
Jim
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You could wire in something like this with a switch to turn it off if your actively outside using the open bay.
https://www.amazon.com/tatoko-Electronic...hdGY&psc=1
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You could also use wireless sensors. Something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/WiFi-Door-Sensor-...B0BPXVQ359
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(02-28-2025, 11:18 AM)hypoxia Wrote: Looking for ideas for making an open bay door warning. Each door has a switch which turns that bay LED light on when opened. What is the best way to send a warning to the driver?
Wire all the lights into coil of relay, relay then goes to buzzer or light on/near the dash. Relay isolates things so it does not back-feed and turn on the rest of the lights. You would need a relay for each bay light to isolate them.
Reminds me I need to do something like this for my tv antenna, second time I left mine up and headed on down the road.
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Good ideas. There are 9 bay doors, 9 relays would work although I'm hoping for a simpler solution. Wireless could work but it needs to be reliable and not baby sat. The preferred indicator would be a dash light with or without a noise.
So far my Cargo Door Open alarm has been audio in the form of honking horns.
Jim
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