Hi,
I'm totally new here and I tried to search for my answer for a bit with no luck as I'm honestly not sure what I need to look for.
I want to build a door/gate alarm for my outside patio deck with a magnetic switch so when some one opens the gate an extremely loud siren goes off and continues to go off for 60 seconds even if they close the gate again and the magnetic switch makes contact again.
I have looked around online to try and buy something already made that does the job but the things I have found are kind of cheesy. I want to build something beefy with some mojo that will surprise the heck out of someone opening the back deck gate
I already know I need a magnetic door switch, a loud siren that I can mount under the deck that can be powered with batteries or maybe even solar and I need to build some type of circuit that once it gets triggered by the switch keeps the juice going to the siren for the 60 second time period then tries to reset itself. I'm thinking that if the gate is still open after the 60 seconds the siren will keep on going for another 60 second cycle until the gate/switch closes again
I did some electronics many many years ago and with today's technology I have not clue what the easiest and or best way is to make this happen. I'm sure it is very easy for someone with knowledge of basic electronics and you can prolly buy all this stuff for not much money to make it all happen.
Sorry if this is all too cheesy of a project for this forum but any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
G.
I'm totally new here and I tried to search for my answer for a bit with no luck as I'm honestly not sure what I need to look for.
I want to build a door/gate alarm for my outside patio deck with a magnetic switch so when some one opens the gate an extremely loud siren goes off and continues to go off for 60 seconds even if they close the gate again and the magnetic switch makes contact again.
I have looked around online to try and buy something already made that does the job but the things I have found are kind of cheesy. I want to build something beefy with some mojo that will surprise the heck out of someone opening the back deck gate
I already know I need a magnetic door switch, a loud siren that I can mount under the deck that can be powered with batteries or maybe even solar and I need to build some type of circuit that once it gets triggered by the switch keeps the juice going to the siren for the 60 second time period then tries to reset itself. I'm thinking that if the gate is still open after the 60 seconds the siren will keep on going for another 60 second cycle until the gate/switch closes again
I did some electronics many many years ago and with today's technology I have not clue what the easiest and or best way is to make this happen. I'm sure it is very easy for someone with knowledge of basic electronics and you can prolly buy all this stuff for not much money to make it all happen.
Sorry if this is all too cheesy of a project for this forum but any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
G.