I've installed the spy alarm system a couple months ago and it never worked right. I have to constantly press the buttons for it to do what i want it to do..most of the time, the system don't react to my pressing a certain button. am i doing something wrong, or is this a common problem?

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The right button in the frame of the clock face is chooses mode; it cycles through alarm, date and time, in that order. The left sets alarm, date or time.

1)To set the time:
Press the right button 6 times until the hour display flashes. (Make sure it is the time and not AL = Alarm)
Press the left button until you have the correct hour (note AM or PM)
Press the right button again until the minute display flashes.
Press left button until you have the correct minute.
Press the right button then the left button; the colon should flash.
The clock is set.

2)To set the alarm time:
Press the right button twice until the hour display flashes. (Make sure AL is displayed in top right hand corner)
Press the left button until you have the correct hour (note AM or PM)
Press the right button again until the minute display flashes.
Press left button until you have the correct minute.

3)To turn on the alarm:
Press the right button once
Press the left button once
There should be a symbol which says "AL ON" near the centre top of the time display.
Press the right button 3 times until the colon flashes
The alarm is on.
There is also a way to get a bell symbol displayed at the centre bottom. (I didn't test what it does)

4)To set date:
Press the right button 4 times until the month display flashes.
Press the left button until you have the correct month
Press the right button again until the day display flashes.
Press left button until you have the correct day.

Jordan,

It probably burned up one of the capacitors on the board that signal the UPS to turn the alarm off. I've had this happen before and I unplugged everything, turned the UPS off, disconnected the batteries and then opened the UPS up to cut off the tiny, annoying, surprisingly loud speaker. I then put everything back together and that was the end of it :)

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This is the only site I know of that has a manual for the install
and user instructions for this alarm. This alarm is hard to install
but the manual shows you how to do it with diagrams.

http://userguides.50webs.com/spy_5000m.htm

The Spy 5000m is a great alarm but difficult to install.
You can get installation and user insttructions from this
site.
http://userguides.50webs.com/spy_5000m.htm

You need to adjust the tachometer sensing wire, it usually wraps around a spark plug wire so I can sense when the car starts. On my spy alarm, the wire was grey. Hope this helps.

make sure the system switch is in the cool position, then press run program button and allow a couple of minutes for system to cycle on, if it doesn't come on press the button for lowering the set point, set it to 72 degrees and then press the hold temperature key.

To set time:

1) Press "Mode" button until Time is displayed.
2) Press and hold "Lap/RST" button until seconds display starts flashing.
3) Press "ST./STOP" button to change selected entry.
4) Press "Mode" button to change from seconds>minutes>hours>date>month>day of the week>time format>date format
5) Press "Lap/RST" once you are done to set the time.

To set Alarm time:

1) Press "Mode" button until ALM is displayed.
2) Press and hold "Lap/RST" button until minutes display starts flashing.
3) Press "ST./STOP" button to change selected entry.
4) Press "Mode" button to change from minutes>hours (remember to cycle through for AM or PM
5) Press "Lap/RST" once you are done to set the alarm.

To toggle alarm sounds on and off:

1) Press "Mode" button until ALM is displayed
2) Press "ST./STOP" button to toggle alarm sounds on or off (shown on display)
3) If alarm sound is shown on display, alarm will go off every day at the selected time. To turn off alarm once the alarm sounds, simply press "ST./STOP" button on the watch.