Anybody got good alarm system knowledge?
My interest is prompted by a Honda VFR 800 which had come into our workshop. It's fitted with a Datatool alarm and immobiliser. The owner had let the battery go flat despite it having an Oxford battery charger conditioner fitted. Turns out the battery was u s.
On fitting a new battery the bike wouldn't start or even turn over.
We thought there was maybe a backup battery in the Datatool unit which had also gone flat and it had all lost its memory.
No help on the Datatool website as, apparently, these things are so secure that only appointed Datatool agents can work on them.
I don't think that claim holds water because in the end, having unwrapped a bit of loom where the Datatool had been spliced in, we simply bridged two wires which had been interrupted to instal the alarm and hey presto she turned over and fired up. High security? I don't think so!
We would like to get the alarm working properly again ( if it ever was......), so if anybody can point us in the right direction please do.