Install Essentials 507M Tilt Sensor

Bought this sensor and a Viper 350 responder alarm, installed carefully on my car, always metering every line at the car's harness that goes to the alarm. (I've seek on Internet to get a guide on my specific cars harness) I installed the sensor as the manual states: "facing upward" it is recomended to be installed on the floor because it needs to be horizontal mounted, but instead I used the 2 sided tape and sticked on a plane surface near to the radio. After the full installation, I make a test, arm the alarm and beging raising the car with it jack... surprise!! it's true! it detects tilting before wheel get in the air!! wow! it's a great addition to the alarm an therefore a great peace of mind if you have great wheels & rims!!!It isn't necesary to get a DEI alarm to use this sensor, it use 3 wires: blue, orange, red. the blue goes conected to any 'instant trigger' of your alarm, the red to constant positive(+), and the orange connected to a Ground-when-armed (-) wire. If your alarm doesn't have it, make it through the use of a universal relay.The relays have these numbers marked on it:* Connect pin 85 to Ground(-) & pin 86 to ignition wire(+)(check polarity on relay if it have a diode) these are the coil's pins.* Conect pin 30 to ground(-) & conect orange (from sensor) to pin 87aThere's a lot of ways of make a ground-when-armed(-) line. All it have to do it's cut the line orange(-) when you put your keys on ignition. The sensor will reset to the last position plane when you turn the engine off from ignition switch, then this is when the sensor will be on.

This product works great. The reason I got it was because; tow trucks can easily take your car and escape with your car. But this product can notify as soon as they take of with the car, or even just jack your car off and take your rims. But anyways the only thing is not a plug in play with my alarm an auto page, but its simple to install it to any alarm. Since my alarm did not have a plug an play i just looked for the wires on the wiring diagram for my alarm luckily all my colors were the same from the tilt sensor red was to constant 12V, blue wire is for trigger, and orange is for ground when armed. But its simple to install all you going to need is wire taps.This is one great product to add, my next product to add is an audio sensor and a motion sensor. These little add on things well help your truck become the best anti theft vehicle out there.

Really cool thing, it is digital so it doesn't matter where you put it, my electric recommended to put it in the middle under console so if someone will try to lift your car it will sense it instantly, because if you put it on one side and the car will be lifted from the other side it might not sense it. But then another electric came and said that it is digital sensor so it doesn't matter where to put it, finally they put it where it was easier for them :) even though I was asking them to put it in a middle as first one recommended in the beginning.And don't worry about parking your car on the hill - it will remember it is position once it is armed and won't trigger alarm, may be old gyroscope based ones were making triggering the alarm.We tested it then, lifted car from the other side and you had to lift your car about 3" before alarm got triggered by this tilt sensor. I was joking that tires are already stolen because for me 3" were to high and expectations were that it will trigger instantly once car lifted more than 1". But hey, not always you can force your electrics to do what you want them to do.

False alarms but it was a simple fixI'm a "retired" stereo/alarm installer. No I didn't get old and crusty, I just changed professions after doing it for 6 years. I do all my own alarm/remote start installs with no issues on my part (ever). This includes my family and close friends. I've had the digital tilt sensor before and its great (proximity sensor not so great. Stay away. Any experienced installer will tell you the same. You guys out there know what I'm talking about). So after getting my latest vehicle and putting latest and greatest DEI (parent company to viper) has to offer, I purchased the tilt sensor and after install everything worked great. The following day however I started getting false triggers and I know it's the tilt sensor because I wired it into the 2ed sensor port in my alarm so when I have a trigger it tells me which sensor was triggered. I have a feeling temperature fluctuations are the cause because I've noticed no false alarms when temp is constant but during a time of day where it goes up or down I get triggers.I have a replacement on its way. I will update once installed. I'm sure it will be fine. Nothing is perfect.Edit: I decided to look closer at the unit after removing it. I noticed that the white connecter was able to move around a lot inside the case. It took a minute to come back to me but I realized the case was put together backward. The screw mount hole was on the same end as the connecter. This leads me the believe this unit could be a return and repackage by viper not the seller. I want that last part to be very clear. The package was fully sealed in ani theft plastic.If you are carful and go after the end. Grab the screw mount and the top of the case and pull. If you did it rite the case will pop open with no marks made on the plastic . Place the bottom of the case on a flat surface and take the pcb and place it inside the bottom of the case and make sure it's snug. Try to move it side to side while pressing down on it. A dab of hot glue between the bottom of the case and pcb or quality adhesive wouldn't be a bad idea. Then press the top back on firmly. Or just put some double stick directly to the bottom of the pcb and mount it without the case. I would recommend everyone check the pcb placement as a precaution. It only takes a few false alarms to begin not to take them seriously and you could ignore your car being broke into or stolen.This may save a lot of returns for the seller. Good luck guys. Remember with 12v electronics. Stuff can go wrong easily. Don't let it discourage you. Be methodical and triple check everything. Do it rite and you will never need to go back under the dash again in less you want to.Final note. I'm a little upset with DEI ( viper ) for what seems to be a repackage of a faulty product. Sometimes things don't work on a test bench as they do in the real world. Some people depend on these products more than others and not everyone can afford full coverage insurance. I can only hope the seller has no knowledge of this and is not buying discounted remanufactured products to make a few extra dollars but I have not proof or knowledge of that at all. Manufacturers will take returned products and pull the electronics out of the plastic case and slap a new pretty plastic case on it and send it rite back out the door if a 10 second test shows no faults. We live in an age where fastest and cheapest always wins out over quality and integrity. It's up to us to make sure our products work as advertised. The greater the time after a purchase the harder it is to get compensated when that products proves itself faulty.