BX Series DIY Backup/Reverse Alarm Warning

[OlderToday]

Do any of you BX owners have a backup alarm? I'd like to add one to my BX24. Mostly I work alone, but when others are around I'd like to activate it for some additional safety. Finding DIY parts is not a problem, but I was wondering if anyone knows of an electrical output that goes on/true/hot when you engage reverse on the BX series or will I need to add a physical switch somewhere? If you DO have a backup alarm on your BX, how did you implement it?
Thanks!

 

[638]

You will have to add a switch. Reverse is purley mechanical.

 

[radioman]

you could mount a bracket with momentary switch under the reverse rocker to activate the backup racket noise.

 

[RedDirt]

A micro switch below the heel of the treadle should do the job.

 

[KeithInSpace]

You'd have to mount it on some type of spring, though, so as to not diminish the motion of the treadle. And so it can engage at something other than full-boogie reverse (as would be the case with a hard-mounted switch).

The HST makes it difficult/impossible to 'detect' reverse without adding an actual switch to the treadle. Don't se any other way around it.

 

[BXRICK]

Just thinking out loud here, but could some sort of proximity switch be used on the treadle? I haven't even looked, but wondering if a long "to be sensed" material could be mounted to
the peddle, so that throughout its entire stroke it was near the sensor.

 

[rdsaustintx]

Mount a horn. It's there for what you need but won't have to listen to noise when working alone.

 

[MarkLeininger]

Don't pick a backup sound that blends with other noises no one pays attention to anymore:

* Backup beepers on garbage trucks, FedEx trucks, UPS trucks, ice cream trucks, plumbing trucks, and every piece of equipment from mosquito sized bobcats up to 200 ton cranes on every construction site
* Blaring messages at the train station telling you the train is approaching, which no can understand because they've got their fingers plugging their ears to block the 2000dB whistle the 4000 Ton train that's 3 feet away is blowing to tell people the train is approaching
* Car alarms going off in parking lots, and neighborhoods in the middle of the night
* Chirping horns in parking lots when people turn their car alarms on

Maybe you could make it sound like a leaf blower when it backs up, everyone looks to see who is making all the noise when they hear one.

 

[n3qik]

How new is the BX, some of the newer ones have the cut-off the mower in reverse feature. If yours has this, then the switch is there already.

 

[OlderToday]

How new is the BX, some of the newer ones have the cut-off the mower in reverse feature. If yours has this, then the switch is there already.

I got my BX24 in March of 2007. Do you know if this cut-off feature is built into the HST? It would seem to me that since the MMM is powered by the mid PTO, the cut-off might be a valve that would drop pressure to the mid PTO when in reverse.