Hi guys. Just a quick one. Doing the electrical work on an extension and they used to have a garden shed with an alarm sensor in it. I want to remove the sensor from the system but wondering what's the correct way to do it. The sensor has a +,-, tamper and N.C in it. So do I just bridge out that...
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Im attempting to quickly knock up a temporary alarm using an external alarm box (no control box) with a tamper loop wire wrapped around some kit
I will be using a external sounder, long length of multicore cable and a 12v power supply.
the box is a XS3D
terminals.....
ST- strobe
TMPR...
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Has anybody had a flashing tamper red led on a honeywell optima. I thought when you had a tamper fault its stays on and doesnt let you arm or disarm it. This one arm/disarms while the tamper lights flashing away. Ive not checked the tamper yet but will go back to...
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I wish to disconnect an internal alarm siren but I am not sure how to go about doing it. You will see from a previous post that i've dabbled with the alarm before. It belongs to my parents and to reassure you, I have my 17th Edition, Part P and 2392 Inspection and Testing, although I...
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I am just about to fit my new alarm and just one little thing is bugging me. The tamper circuit. Firstly I am having 2 Door Contacts, 3 PIR's 1 Keypad and 1 Live Bell box. Now I know about the Bell Box and Keypad tamper but I am not sure about the PIR and contact? I will be running each...
Hi. I've tried to fit an Optima Compact alarm panel with built in key pad. Upon energising there is a tamper fault. I've removed all zones & linked them out but still no joy. This is the reason I hate doing alarms & will avoid in the future! Any ideas please??:devil:
Hi all,I have a problem with my alarm - am I allowed to ask? I noticed the alarms forum is locked to me presumably so I don't use it to learn how to disable alarms, but can I use this forum at all to ask for help with mine please?It's a Optima XL 4
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Many a time I've seen our electrician use blue and yellow for the tamper circuit. He twists all the blue wires from each PIR sensor together then twists the yellow wire for each sensor together.
My question is how is the accenta G4 mini able to detect an open circuit when say only one of the...
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I have a Veritas 8 alarm system with an additional Veritas R8 keypad. The system appears to be locked with the following symptoms.
Main box shows tamper light – red, unset light – green and power light green. When the alarm is set, here, then the exit buzzer continues forever, and thus no...
Hello, I'm new here and after some advice. I'm installing an Accenta Mini G4 Alarm with Honeywell AG6 Bell (SAB). I tested the system with a battery only and everything seemed to be working fine - once I fixed a fault on one of the RKPs. My problem is now I've connected to the mains and apply...
Hi, short off it is my sister has bought a texecom wired alarm and wants me to fit it and to be honest I did a course about a year and a half ago on alarm installation but since then cause I was an electrician in the army and for past year been doing domestic electrician with elecsa, I haven't...
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I have a Honeywell galaxy 3-144c main alarm board and want to connect an external sounder and strobe unit to it,
The sounder has the following connections :
V+
V-
Sw-
R-
St-
But the panel has nothing that matches these ?
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Jack
hi guys, thought i would ask you novices!!!
ive got 4xgroundfloor apartments with alarms and above each front door got a 6core alarm cable for a sound bomb whats the connections is it just 12v & 0v
normally would fit a bell siren but cant in a groundfloor communal area.
Lately I've seen a couple of very old alarm panels installed that use the EOL wiring method, these have been domestic with about 5 or 6 zones used, do any of you use this method for small domestic use? (3 bed semi)? Other sparks I speak to don't bother and say there is no need..What do you think?
interlogix im trying to work out at moment they have packk of 4k7 resistors looks real technical.... these will be linked to videphones aswell
anyway we were asked to pull the cables for these alarms its came now where ive staqrted fitting out, well im mounting everything but im sure they will...
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Anyone got any experiance of installing Tamper Proof Screws?
Got a care in the community job on & just found out they are required!!!
Done some research - about £30 per 100 from MK - My problem is: I'm installing satin chrome accessories etc.. Is there a company...
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I'm just after a wee bit of help if at all possible.
Regarding the Scantronic 9448+ Style burglar alarm - I'm trying to add a door contact in a shed to an already functioning home burglar alarm. I've managed to download the installation manual from the internet (attached) but even...
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I am obliged to wire in a new alarm sounder.
The old one was wired (with six core cable) thus:
Grey: Negative - Strobe trigger
Blue: Negative siren trigger
Black: Zero V - Supply hold off port 1
Red: Positive - Supply hold off port 2
Orange cable and yellow cable: A/T Return...
All the burglar alarms in the close where I live are being affected by the recent freezing weather. When the temperatures have been getting into the minuses the burglar alarm boxes on the outside of the houses have started to tweet. Last night the alarms started going off at about 9pm and they...
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