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Does anyone know anything about it. At £150 (+£50 for installation kit) it seems to be a lot cheaper than the alternatives and there is no ongoing fee apart from 10p every time it accesses a phone network.
I understand they are on ebay for £50.:thumb:

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Jim

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Just 10 years ago, a personal tracking system cost around £5k, the on costs to access the tracking data were crippling as well. GPS had made these prices tumble, Link Removed for £50. Someone more clever than me could easily rig up a permanent feed and you have vehicle tracking on the very cheap.

I could do with strapping one of these locators to my car keys:Smile:
 

bob and jules

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just an alternative view.... the money you maybe wouldnt save on your insurance for a non approved unit would probably pay the difference between that and an insurance approved one, over a year or two

Personally I've got one from 'Outsmart the Thief' and its brilliant, I get a phone call within 10 to 20 secs of my hamfisted accidental activations, its a top piece of kit and worth the money, but I can see the advantages of a cheaper alternative.

Ours 'reports in' several times a day to show its working, just wondered how you check a non monitored one is actually doing its thing without keep setting it off to see.

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Just 10 years ago, a personal tracking system cost around £5k, the on costs to access the tracking data were crippling as well. GPS had made these prices tumble, Link Removed for £50. Someone more clever than me could easily rig up a permanent feed and you have vehicle tracking on the very cheap.

I could do with strapping one of these locators to my car keys:Smile:
Amazing aint it, I have said before that my son in Chicago phones me on Skype and tells me where I am located in the UK within a couple of metres using Google Latitude. It is handy as I don’t often know where I am myself.:Smile:
I am going to Maplin today for a Fire wire card, I will have a look at the tracker.:thumb:
 

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Bob and Jules said:
just an alternative view.... the money you maybe wouldnt save on your insurance for a non approved unit would probably pay the difference between that and an insurance approved one, over a year or two

Good point.. but as an instance, given the expensive ones seem to cost about £400 or so, it would take me almost 40 years to get the money back ( fully comp this year was £115.00 )

The way to check if an unmonitored one is working is simply activate it .. Cost 10p but still a bit of a bargain :thumb:
 

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Does anyone know anything about it. At £150 (+£50 for installation kit) it seems to be a lot cheaper than the alternatives and there is no ongoing fee apart from 10p every time it accesses a phone network.
I understand they are on ebay for £50.:thumb:

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It's got all the essentials but I cannot work out if it has an alarm input so you could trigger it off the van alarm. A few minutes on the bench could fit a relay across the call button.

That fitting kit looks optional, most of us have spare 5V USB supplies and sited properly, say in a plastic roof vent it may well work without and external aerial.

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It's got all the essentials but I cannot work out if it has an alarm input so you could trigger it off the van alarm. A few minutes on the bench could fit a relay across the call button.

That fitting kit looks optional, most of us have spare 5V USB supplies and sited properly, say in a plastic roof vent it may well work without and external aerial.

My thoughts exactly hilldweller. All great minds think alike.:Cool:
 

hilldweller

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My thoughts exactly hilldweller. All great minds think alike.:Cool:

Fools seldom differ :RollEyes:

If you want to try it, a very small 12V reed relay fitted close to the button would probably work if the coil was well suppressed. Since the button will probably be a rubber switch it might take some skill to solder to the tracks.

If they are on ebay for £50 well worth a punt.

Plan B - crude - a 12V solenoid or an RC model servo to do it mechanically.
 

Paula

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This idea is not for insurance premium purposes.

Been told you can use a mobile phone in some way as a tracking device. #
Hide in van - if stolen you can track and trace.

Anyone know who how what etc

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Tracker that woks for £50

This idea is not for insurance premium purposes.

Been told you can use a mobile phone in some way as a tracking device. #
Hide in van - if stolen you can track and trace.

Anyone know who how what etc
Someone I met camping yesterday mentioned that. The phone ahs to be switched on, so [perhaps permantly wired in so it does no go flat.
But i'm not sure how they track its wherabouts.

was this idea suggested on TV a while ago to keep an eye on where your childen were?

S.
 

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