Edit: I think I realize how this works now. I just need to buy a multi-meter and another one of these.CDV777-1 wrote:I'm so glad to have spent all this time trying to help you and then I get a reply like that.I was lazy, so I just put my Model L on terminal 1 and 2. It wouldn't work, the timer was doing things, but not a peep from the siren. I tried wiring the siren both ways... nothing is happening! Any suggestions?
If you don't know how to hook up a switch to something I don't know how to help you especially if you say you are "lazy."
That says to me you are just messing around and aren't serious to learn how this works.
I mistakenly thought you really wanted to learn something here.
I repeatedly told you that an AR timer is only a switch. Terminals 1 and 2 only turn on and off they don't power anything.
I can't make it any simpler than this. ....
1. Get another separate wall plug and and cord for the siren. Power the timer with one cord and the siren with another.
2.The hot wire (black) from wall plug connects to timer [terminal 1] ,
3. Then another hot wire (black) connects from timer [terminal 2] and then connects to your Model L siren.
4. The neutral wire (white) from the wall plug connects straight to the siren.
This is the schematic...
----------------------------hot (black) wire -----------------[timer terminal 1] [timer terminal 2]--------------------------- Connects To
120volt wall plug
----------------------------neutral (white) wire------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model L Siren
I am very, very sorry about what I said about being "lazy". I am taking what you say seriously, I just had a hard time understanding sometimes. I also at the time I couldn't go to Home Depot to get a multi-meter. I am going to try to go today, I tried the siren mainly because I Just don't have lamps lying around that I would want to decapitate the plug on. Again, I am sorry, and thanks for all the help! I'm sorry if I got off on a bad foot with you.