Car Alarms: Car alarm beeps 3 times instead of just 1, dome light delay, prestige car

Question
Hey again, My can is a 1991 honda civic, if this bears any light on the solution. So does this mean that the alarm is doing this because when i am activating the alarm a sensor is still active? for example a door lock sensor or dome light like you said? My cars dome light goes off as soon as i close my door could it be something else?
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Followup To
Question -
Hi, i have a prestige car alarm installed and it was working fine until recently. When i activate the alarm it beeps three times and after 30 mins the alarm activates. It turns off normally and i have replaced the car and remote button but neither of these things help.
Please help as it is driving me crazy
Thanks
Dean
Answer -
Sounds like an open circuit Dean. The alarm is reading
a wire that still has power on it, possibly from
a dome light delay system, since alarms are normally
triggered by detecting the dome light
going on or off. If it has a delay, the alarm
is notifying you that this circuit is still open,
the bypasses it for 1 minute. Not knowing the
make model and year of the car/truck, or the alarm
that's in it, keeps me from making a mor informed
assessment, but from experience and what you've said,
this seems the most likely explaination.

Some alarms, have a 1 minute before detecting
a dome light delay feature setting that addresses
this type of thing, but again, not certain of
what you have there. If you can, take it
to the installer that put it in to modify
it's settings to cover this veriable for you.

Good luck on it.

ALARMTEK
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Answer
Well no the civic does not have a dome light delay
issue, so yoes it can be something else. The 3 chirps
tell us still that there is an open circuit it is
monitoring that is showing voltage when you arm it.
It can be a wrong wire etc...

Normally, the alarm will monitor the dome light wire
and the trunk light wire as well. (SEPERATE CIRCUITS)
and you need to re do that. Short of
that, there is no reason that an alarm would
chirp back. I am still leaning towards the door
trigger/dome light connection. Did you install it?
If so, did you put both the positive and negative door
trigger wires together on the same wire? This can
be the cause as well. Hard to tell from where I sit
what is exactly causing your open circuit, but if
you did connect the (+) and (-) trigger wires to
the same wire in the car, then remove the (+).
I'ts not needed on a Honda.

If no joy, take it to a tech to go over
the wiring to solve the problem.

ALARMTEK