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I would use the CCTV as the perimeter security, set up properly it will only notify you if it sees humans

Especially if you are as fat as your name suggests

QFA I would price accordingly, and I would be unlikely to win it they have obviously gone for the cheapest in the past

Is it viewing the balcony then? From your statement above I gather CCTV is not your thing? Axis dont make analogue cameras

Maintenance and breakdowns would have to be done for free, in order for it to be volunteering

Assuming its an analogue recorder any analogue camera will do but its gonna need a decent lense on it to see anything sensible at that height, unless they just want to count cars

No not the normal days, you are entitled to time off if you are called out but its hour for hour, and I think one hour call out doesnt count.I was thinking more the weekend when engineers are on call Friday 5pm and the are working right up till Monday 5pm I mean if you get called out all Sunday night you can take Monday daytime off, but you cannot do that Saturday or Sunday Daytime so easily

If you only wanted a deterrent heres a tip from readers digest

Apart from the laws on how long you can work without a break, if your on call 24/7 for one week I am sure that your employer would be breaking the law. I often wonder about weekends, back in the day when we used to do keyholding I was out half the night on a Friday and then oin call all day the next day. You couldn't get away with that these days

Years ago when not everyone had burglar alarms that was the case, now it entirely depends on the type of burglar you are likely to get. Most opportunists and druggies are to stupid to notice alarms and cameras until its too late. Part setting your alarm should allow for people getting up in the night, I have two kids a wife and dog and occasionally a third kid stays, none of them have ever set my alarm of in the middle of the night.

Two worrying factors there The intruder doesnt get any alerts when he enters your house, and your pensioners. I dont wont to worry you, and I am certainly not trying to sell you anything, you already have an alarm and CCTV, but do you know how many burglaries occur when people are in ? Google it you would be surprised. I set my alarm when Im in the garden for the afternoon, but I get to see lots of burglaries and hear lots of scary stories in my job. You have a burglar alarm, kill two birds and set it, then you wont be woken up because there is a power cut, (apart from your smoke detectors beeping every three or so minutes of course) more importantly your in local burglar will be alerted if he breaks in during a powercut, whereas your CCTV wont work ina powercut

Turn your power off just to the alarm now and see if it still does it

either hat or go into engineer and that will stop it, but I dont think its that I think its most likely your mains smoke detectors beeping.

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Ive changed your wording so it makes more sense Its sounds like its set up for monitoring, which means you have to use the fob to unset not the code

Connect power first then battery NOT battery first, if the battery is knackered the psu wont be able provide enough power to the controls

Its not a diy one

I would think most wireless bells can be powered by a 12v psu. The panel we use does and know that the Visonic panel can be powered by 12v not sure on other brands

Did you disconnect the battery when you down powered?

Hi Cliff welcome Unfortunately this is a British forum, and security in the UK is much different from in the US, the equipment for us is made to a British Standard. Therefore it is unlikely that anyone here will be able to assist you.

I should state if yes to those three then you need to come to a legal arrangement with everyone the other 5 engineers that everyone can afford

Hi Brian Welcome to the forum The rules are that you should not be working, however, our business is quite different from any other type of business in the respect that we are contracted to customers to respond. This means if we do not respond we are in breach of that contract and they will probably go to a company that will respond, and there will be plenty of those out there. So if we employ engineers that are furloughed we are breaking the law, but if we furlough the engineers and ignore the contracted customers there may not be a job for all the engineers to come back to because contract will be lost. So the employer either has to pay the wages with very little coming in, and trust me the money will run out eventually. He needs more than one engineer working because of working hour laws, that would mean he could not make up the 100% wage to the ones he has furloughed. The other alternative is that he continues to employ everyone on reduced hours and with six engineers you would be lucky if you got two or three days a week and you will end up with 40/50% of your current wage max. Personally I think the government have just tried to cover themselves, they dont want people claiming but just working less hours because there is less work about . They could not know how every industry works, there are millions of scenarios that are different. Your employer may not be aware of the rules, if you are unhappy about the situation you need to speak with your employer and let him know he is breaking the law. Questions I would yourself ask are Is the employer paying you 100% or just the 80% the government is offering. Do you like your employer is he fair and does he look after everyone, especially times like these when he already has enough shz to worry about Do you feel that you are part of a team and that you do not want to let anyone down.

Much as I would agree, this virus has a name Covid 19 the name of this topic is Covid 19 everyone apart from Trump refers to it as Covid 19 but Trump has an alterio motive for calling it the China Virus. There were reports on the European news this morning that it may not have originated in Wuhan , but was carried by foreigner's in to the country. They also reckon that many people that have been tested for it had it and didnt know they had it, in Italy they say many that have tested positive showed no symptoms at all and have still not got ill.

Freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to shout Fire! in a crowded theatre. My point being just because China was the place it was first discovered does not mean you should refer to it as the China Virus its like pointing the blame on China

My favorite comment from Trump is " I had a small loan from my dad of a million dollars"