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PostPosted: June 15, 2016, 3:08 pm 
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Hey guys, I need a quieter way to wake up so it doesn't disturb my Girlfriend. I stretch every morning so I need the snooze feature to keep me from falling back to sleep. The alarms you can buy with vibrating features are all really crappy, or do not have a snooze function. What I was thinking was to use a digital travel alarm clock, and wire in a vibrating motor instead of the beeper. Then just hold onto the motor while stretching. Problem is most motors need ~5V so I would use a 120V to 5V adapter, and a relay wired to the beeper. I could also wire the snooze button into the motor housing.

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-can anyone think of a simpler/better way to accomplish this?
-will a 1.5V beeper be enough to trigger a standard automotive relay or do I need a special one?

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PostPosted: June 15, 2016, 4:57 pm 
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The alarm clock app on my iPhone vibrates if you want it to and it has a snooze button.

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+1 on the iPhone. Just turn off the ringer and turn on the vibrate AND flashing LED function.

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Not too interested in using a phone for this. I want something I can just click without looking at, and don't really like having my phone in bed with me.
Thanks for the replies.

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C10CoryM wrote:
don't really like having my phone in bed with me.
Why not??? Ain't you ever heard of "Phone Sex"??? :rofl:

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They make little battery powered vibrators on a cord. You could do some wire splicing and rig up something with a clock or just use a wall outlet timer. Maybe you would get tangled up in the cord over night though.

Maybe something like those pneumatic jacks they use on race cars, could be rigged to gently roll you out onto the floor in the morning. Or even stand you up.

We have lots of ideas, I'm sure we'll find something that works for you - just give us time.

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Just a minute now, JD's reply made me think of something.
I believe there are stores out there that sell vibrator's, that have cords on them, that range from 1.5V small one's all the way up 110V industrial size.
I think now a days you can even order them online, and they'll deliver them wrapped in an inconspicuous brown paper parcel.
In my opinion there's just too many to choose from, but I'll bet you'll find one that'll get you 'up' in the morning.

This is just what I've heard, it may be all bs.

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I bought a package of small, 1.5V-3V DC vibrating motors (the kind inside wireless phones & pagers) from Ebay for a project a while back. They work great, and were seriously cheap. If you disconnected the wires to the piezo beeper in the clock & ran them to the vibrating motor, that would work. You'd need to put the little motor into a small housing of some kind (film cannister, maybe?) so you could hold it.

Here's an example - 6 motors, for $1.78... http://www.ebay.com/itm/1pcs-6-12MM-3V- ... 1644390963

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Thanks guys. I didn't think I'd be able to find any vibrating motors that worked on such low voltage. In that case, I think I'll just modify a small battery operated alarm with a vibrating motor, sit it on something that makes it rattle loud enough to wake me initially, then just snooze it and hold onto the whole thing while stretching. GF will have to put up with being disturbed once, but that's doable.

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horchoha wrote:
Just a minute now, JD's reply made me think of something.
I believe there are stores out there that sell vibrator's, that have cords on them, that range from 1.5V small one's all the way up 110V industrial size.
I think now a days you can even order them online, and they'll deliver them wrapped in an inconspicuous brown paper parcel.
In my opinion there's just too many to choose from, but I'll bet you'll find one that'll get you 'up' in the morning.

This is just what I've heard, it may be all bs.

They make them pretty powerful now. This one would probably wake the neighbors up. Might not be for the same application you're thinking about though. My brother asked me if I could get one from eBay, he's not very computer savy, so I told him to just typing vibrator into google should find what he wanted.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/NEW-2-2-HP-CONCR ... 2255307788?
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horizenjob wrote:
They make little battery powered vibrators on a cord. You could do some wire splicing and rig up something with a clock or just use a wall outlet timer. Maybe you would get tangled up in the cord over night though.


https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Wand-Premi ... magic+wand
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https://www.amazon.com/Intermatic-TN311 ... ords=timer


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