I'm driving a Suzuki Celerio 1,000 c.c auto that has a warning buzzer if
I switch off the engine with the lights on. The trouble is that the
sound is quite low and I have damaged hearing and often can't hear it.

Is it possible to increase the volume of the warning device? I would
ask the garage but I'm not due there for some months.
pfj

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I'd say it depends where the buzzer or sounder is.
If its get atable then I'd imagine you could do it with a small amplifier
of some kind or maybe a relay and a more beefy sounder.
Brian

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I'm driving a Suzuki Celerio 1,000 c.c auto that has a warning buzzer if
I switch off the engine with the lights on. The trouble is that the
sound is quite low and I have damaged hearing and often can't hear it.

Is it possible to increase the volume of the warning device? I would
ask the garage but I'm not due there for some months.
pfj

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On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:31:06 UTC, PeteFJ wrote:
I'm driving a Suzuki Celerio 1,000 c.c auto that has a warning buzzer if
I switch off the engine with the lights on. The trouble is that the
sound is quite low and I have damaged hearing and often can't hear it.

Is it possible to increase the volume of the warning device? I would
ask the garage but I'm not due there for some months.
pfj

It's most likely a piezo sounder. Connecting another in parallel could help if the driver can run them both at resonance. If. Otherwise you could add a new piezo driver triggered by the old one. With hearing damage you're likely to be beter off choosing a larger and thus lower frequency piezo.

The size of the market for this is one, you're it, so you won't find anything ready made.

Personally I wish all such things were banished from cars. I've always looked back to see the lights aren't on, what's so hard about that.


NT

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It's most likely a piezo sounder. Connecting another in parallel could
help if the driver can run them both at resonance. If. Otherwise you
could add a new piezo driver triggered by the old one. With hearing
damage you're likely to be beter off choosing a larger and thus lower
frequency piezo.

I fitted aftermarket reversing sensors to the old Rover. The hatchback
design makes it pretty difficult to guess the exact position of the rear
bumper.

The kit had a dash panel with flashing LEDS - one for each sensor - and a
bleeper. Didn't want the LEDs and the bleeper was near inaudible once I'd
fitted the dash unit out of sight inside the instrument nacelle. So simply
got a larger piezo electric sounder from Maplin and replaced the much
smaller one. If anything, it's now too loud.

Intention is to build a better solution which includes different sound(s)
for lights on warning (etc) too, and have an easy method of setting how
loud they are. You'd have thought someone would do a chip with a selection
of nice warning sounds and a few inputs, and enough of an output to drive
a suitable sounder - perhaps a small loudspeaker.

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On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:46:26 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

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Intention is to build a better solution which includes different sound(s)
for lights on warning (etc) too, and have an easy method of setting how
loud they are. You'd have thought someone would do a chip with a selection
of nice warning sounds and a few inputs, and enough of an output to drive
a suitable sounder - perhaps a small loudspeaker.

Job for an Arduino?

Cheers, T i m

On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 16:17:20 UTC, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:46:26 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

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Intention is to build a better solution which includes different sound(s)
for lights on warning (etc) too, and have an easy method of setting how
loud they are. You'd have thought someone would do a chip with a selection
of nice warning sounds and a few inputs, and enough of an output to drive
a suitable sounder - perhaps a small loudspeaker.

Job for an Arduino?

I don't think so, they aren't much good for that sort of thing.


Cheers, T i m

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 19:31:02 +0000, (PeteFJ) wrote:

I'm driving a Suzuki Celerio 1,000 c.c auto that has a warning buzzer if
I switch off the engine with the lights on. The trouble is that the
sound is quite low and I have damaged hearing and often can't hear it.

Is it possible to increase the volume of the warning device? I would
ask the garage but I'm not due there for some months.

Read the owners handbook. Some cars have the warning sounds integrated into the
cars audio system (even when the radio/cd etc is 'off')

It could be a case of pressing a few buttons and going from normal sound levels
to eleven.

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