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EOC_Jason

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Does it have to be exact?

Mouser
Allied Electronics
Jameco
Digikey
allelectronics.com

Those are online places I would look...
 
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Ray-CA said:
As the title says, I'm looking for this (https://www.radioshack.com/products/radioshack-102db-piezo-siren) and of course the Radio Shacks in my area are closed. Having checked the local shops etc. haven't produced any results. So, if anyone knows of a source for this item, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Ray
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I may actually have a few of those in one of the many huge bags filled with thousands of parts from several RS's that closed. Do you need that exact part? I could keep an eye out for it when I get around to sorting everything out. I'm sure there's tons of similar replacements around if you don't need the exact same one.

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I am pretty sure I have one or two of those. No packaging, but never been used. Make me an offer and they're yours.
 
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I probably have a half dozen still on boards in my junk stash. Probably not going to help you though...
 
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I want to steal this thread for a second and ask a question.

I have a battery powered back up sump pump in my basement that is there in case the power goes out and the regular sump pump can't run.

Anyway, every time I have to shut the power off in the basement to do something, the little piezo alarm in the battery backup sump pump goes off, alerting you that the power is off. This damn thing is really annoying, and will keep going off as long as the power is out.

I have opened up the battery backup switch box to see if I could just unplug the siren, but it is hard wired to the circuit board inside the box.

If I was to just clip the leads to the siren, and remove it, would that do anything to the functionality of the battery back up? I just want to remove the siren, not mess up the battery backup function of the pump.

Jim
 
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CJ7VFR said:
I want to steal this thread for a second and ask a question.

I have a battery powered back up sump pump in my basement that is there in case the power goes out and the regular sump pump can't run.

Anyway, every time I have to shut the power off in the basement to do something, the little piezo alarm in the battery backup sump pump goes off, alerting you that the power is off. This damn thing is really annoying, and will keep going off as long as the power is out.

I have opened up the battery backup switch box to see if I could just unplug the siren, but it is hard wired to the circuit board inside the box.

If I was to just clip the leads to the siren, and remove it, would that do anything to the functionality of the battery back up? I just want to remove the siren, not mess up the battery backup function of the pump.

Jim
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Hard to say without seeing the schematic. Safer thing to do would be to put a piece of duct tape over the siren's hole. It won't silence it completely, but it will quiet it down 75% or so.

But if you want to disconnect it, just clip one lead and leave the siren in there. Test the backup function. If it doesn't work, reconnect the clipped lead.

It will probably work fine with the siren disconnected though.
 
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CoogarXR said:
Hard to say without seeing the schematic. Safer thing to do would be to put a piece of duct tape over the siren's hole. It won't silence it completely, but it will quiet it down 75% or so.

But if you want to disconnect it, just clip one lead and leave the siren in there. Test the backup function. If it doesn't work, reconnect the clipped lead.

It will probably work fine with the siren disconnected though.
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Thanks for the answers. I thought about the tape over the hole thing, but the sirens hole apparently is on the underside of the siren, and unless I remove the siren from the circuit board, I can't see it to put tape over it. I wonder if they did that on purpose.

I do like your answer about just clipping one lead and testing the battery backup to see if it still works. That would be the easiest modification to the siren that could be reversed when I wanted to hook the siren back up.

Thanks!

Jim
 
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CoogarXR said:
Hard to say without seeing the schematic. Safer thing to do would be to put a piece of duct tape over the siren's hole. It won't silence it completely, but it will quiet it down 75% or so.

But if you want to disconnect it, just clip one lead and leave the siren in there. Test the backup function. If it doesn't work, reconnect the clipped lead.

It will probably work fine with the siren disconnected though.
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Yeah, I was going to say I've put electrical tape over the holes of little sires / beepers before and it helped a TON...

Usually they are on a separate circuit because of the lower voltage. I wouldn't recommend removing it simply because what if the power goes out but your battery is dead. You won't hear anything nor will you know your backup pump isn't working...
 
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EOC_Jason said:
....You won't hear anything nor will you know your backup pump isn't working...
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The idea I was thinking about was to basically do something to disconnect the siren when I shut the power off to do something in the basement, and then be able to hook it back up so it could be heard like you said.

Not only is the siren really loud, but it scares the hell out of my cats when it keeps going off for any length of time I am working with the power off!

Jim
 
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You could clip one lead of the siren and connect an SPST switch. Do this with the unit powered down, though the siren is probably on a low voltage (prob 5-12 volt) circuit.
 
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tym said:
You could clip one lead of the siren and connect an SPST switch. Do this with the unit powered down, though the siren is probably on a low voltage (prob 5-12 volt) circuit.
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That is not a bad idea. I have a few really small toggle switches that I got from work when they were tossing out a bunch of stuff.

I could wire one in line on one of the leads of the siren and bring the wires outside the main plastic housing that holds everything, and mount it there.

Thanks.

Jim
 
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wyliesdiesels said:
happened in may and just now comes out?

BTW be careful on discussing anything political. Politics are not allowed on this site...
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not political.. but it does have that technology thing to it. relaying to this electrical component :)
 
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