Hi I’m installing a disabled toilet alarm and they need an extra beacon in the office about 100mt away. Has anyone got any suggestions as to what cable to use for this longer run
I currently have a home with 7 interconnected, hard-wired smoke detectors. I have a hard-wired heat alarm in the garage that I need to have interconnected to the rest of the system, per local regulations. My solar installer added the heat sensor but does not seem to know how to handle the...
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Requesting your help please! I know this is an old system but has been working amazingly for 7 years!
I had an engineer out who done a reset apparently however it hasn’t cured my fault!
When the system is not activated the main control box beeps every 30 minutes or so three times...
Hi, I have a veritas R8 alarm and corresponding keypad. Recently a powercut caused one of my keypads to stop working. I replaced the battery in the main alarm unit and after a reset the keypad started working but everytime I try to set the full or part alarm, the keypad seems to go into a walk...
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Our Enphase solar system needs to have the AC supply shut down via the fire alarm contactors local input output unit that has NO & NC volt free contacts.
Is there a kit i can buy or should i just buy a DB with a 4 pole contactor etc? how would you do this
Bevause its an enpahse...
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I currently have a Pyronix Enforcer V10 Wireless alarm system. I have some shock/contacts on windows, doors, PIRs, and an external siren. It's fine for now, and the batteries last ages. The main complaint is a terrible external PIR which is disabled due to endless false alarms.
I'm...
Hi, I need to extend a fire alarm, the panel is a CTEC CFP 2 zone one and currently it has a couple of apollo alarm sense sounder bases/heads on it. I fitted 2 extra normal (non-sounder) alarm sense bases and alarm sense heads but the panel is showing a fault on that zone, the fault clears if I...
Hi, just wondering if anyone could help me. I’ve just installed a texecom Veritas alarm in my garage at home and can’t seem to get rid of the tamper light at all.
At first I was getting red lights on all my zones Aswell as tamper. I then linked out all zones which got rid of the red zone...
Hello. Looking for recommendations on a co alarm. Usually use aico but client is not happy with the look of them. Old victorian house probably need 8 of them.
A few dead bodies would be preferable to an aico ei208 on the ceiling
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I had a new Alarm Panel installed in January and all was working well until I got a new Consumer Unit installed Last Week which has RCBOs.
The previous Unit was just a Fuse Box.
The Alarm Panel is on its own Circuit connected via a Fused Spur.
The RCBO for the...
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I’ve recently installed a texecom veritus excel alarm system but having an issue with the sounder not going off when triggered by the pir
I’ve only got one pir wired in to the control panel and the other 7 zones are linked through.
When I try and do a walk through test the pir isn’t being...
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just before i call the sparks out, am i able to remove a smoke alarm and get it in a junction box in a bedroom? they are hardwired so it will be in a junction box then hidden in the ceiling.
they are two meters away from the other one which is in the hallway. its just the room is...
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Just wondering if there is such thing as a small size bell box for alarm? Not much info comes up on Google and they all seem pretty much the same size. I suppose size isn't critical on a house and they look like a deterrent.
Asking as I want to install one on a boat and not a huge...
At some point the sounder on my home security system stopped working (everything else is still working fine). I know how to troubleshoot it, but it's in a crawlspace and I want to have as much information as possible before I go back down there. Is it possible/likely that the sounder just...
My pir cables are red+
Black -
Yellow blue alarm or relay
Yellow green tamper
However one has different colours
Blue
Blue white
Orange
Orange white
Brown
Brown white
Can anyone tell me what these should be
Currently looking for fire alarm installers to assist on projects throughout London on a self employed basis. Must be competent working on large scale addressible systems in a commercial setting. Will be required to have all of your own tools and transport. SSSTS, IPAF and ECS required.
Please...
I thought I would take a few minutes to give my recent experience in wiring a large garage for power and an alarm circuit. This relates to clipped direct for all cables, using Linian clips.
A laser round the garage, drilling the 6mm holes. clipping the 2.5mm to the brickwork all went very well...
Gold card spark who has now switched to an office role and I'm looking to progress my career by gaining knowledge of related systems etc and Fire Alarms are a big part of the work that we have coming in. Looking to get a feel for the work and not be a pen pusher who doesn't appreciate what I'm...
Bungalow, existing property, owner occupied. Front door opens into hallway. Kitchen is separated from the hallway by a door. Kitchen also has a external door leading to garden.
If installing to minimum building regs requirements (Grade D2 Category LD3), does the kitchen need a heat alarm...
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