Build your own from parts

You can build your own MortiSafe from parts. Before you start

You will need to buy these parts. You'll need the following tools:

• A flat bladed screwdriver, with a head less than 3.5mm (about 1/8 inch) across
• A screwdriver suitable for unscrewing the panel on the back of the safe's door (mine uses a cross-head screwdriver)
• Something to cut wire (eg scissors)
• Something to clean the insulation off the end of a wire

How to build, quick summary

There may look like a lot of steps to building the MortiSafe but that's only because it's in a lot of detail. The basic steps to it are:

• Cut the cable of your power adaptor and connect it to the MortiRemote
• Cut a wire in your digital safe and connect it to the MortiRemote
• Plug the MortiThingy into your PC
• Download some software
• Use it

How to build, detailed instructions

Follow these links to build your MortiSafe:

• Familiarising yourself with your digital safe
• Checking the MortiReceiver wiring
• Configuring the MortiThingy
• Powering and testing the MortiReceiver
• Wiring the digital safe

Uninstalling the MortiSafe

If you should want to, you can very easily turn the MortiSafe back into a normal digital safe just by unscrewing some wires:

• Open the safe, and unscrew the panel on the back of the door
• Identify the screw terminal block which has two wires going to the MortiReceiver and two going to the safe
• Unscrew the wires going to the MortiReceiver
• Unscrew one of the wires going to the safe
• Screw that wire back in so that both of the wires going to the safe are connected together

The safe is now restored to normal.