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I need a louder siren with the x10 home
security system.
I want anyone who enters to walk away in
pain
I would like an ADT style siren that can be
heard up and down the block.  Is there a
cost effective way of doing this? $130 is
all I found.
Right now I have the Siren hooked up to my
remote light switches, so when the alarm
sounds instead of the lights flashing the
sirens go off.
The downside is that if I hit the lights
button on the remote... the siren goes off.

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Loud alarm solution...  I set a lamp module
to #5 and the same  letter as my DS7000
system.  To that lamp  module I connected a
24hour security timer  (walmart dial type,
15 minute intervals).  The timer is plugged
into the lamp control  set to sound for 15
minutes and then turn  off for 23hrs and 45
mins.  I then connected  a radioshack siren
set to test(so as soon as  it gets power it
sounds) the siren draws 24w  @0.5amp the
motion detector is disabled.    What
happens... the alarm is triggered and  lamps
start flashing... the siren chips on  and
off while the system goes off too(lights
on/off cycle).  Then the lights go all on
after 4 minutes of on/off.  Now the siren
would sound until it is unplugged, but
there  is a lamp timer(walmart) plugged in
first,  so the siren pulses for 4 minutes
then  sounds for another 14 minutes then the
timer  turns the siren off even though the
lights  are still on.  24 hours later, if
the alarm  is not reset, the timer would
sound again...  (this also tells me the time
of the  triggered alarm working backwards).
This seems to work, but might short out the
lamp timer?  I'll see when it is triggered
and left on for a long period of time.
Works great for a 1 minute test.