Fragramatics Shampoo Alarm

[washtubman]

My SVSR Vac/shampooer has started alarming all by it self. There is nothing in the manual about an alarm so I called Fragramatics. They said it is a sensor that has gone bad. It is an alarm that supposedly goes off if someone hits it hard. They said I had to send in the display/controller to have the sensor replaced. $80 to $150 to fix! Anyone had this problem and fixed it some other way? I don't care about an alarm sensor, so was wondering if there was a way to just bypass the sensor.

 

[paradise]

Call Mike Oliver at IDX, he should be able to help

 

[pitzerwm]

Maybe just find the speaker/pieso and cut the wire to it, if its soldered to the mother board you will need to figure out how to disable it without messing up the motherboard.

 

[MEP001]

Unfortunately it's more complicated than that - when it's tripped it uses whatever horn/beeper that's wired to it as its siren, and the display flashes "ALARM" until the power is turned off.

There might be a similar sensor to the small reed switch on the front of a Dixmor timer. Someone asked me once how to disable the ability to read the count on the display by passing a magnet in front of it. He didn't want potential competition seeing how much business he was doing. We just snipped the switches off with a small diagonal cutters.