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If you just want a deterrent - buy a blank box from ebay, preferably 2nd hand with a real name on. Or buy a £99 Yale kit and sell the rest other than the bellbox. My advice really is that simple, as there is no point having to maintain, install and support essentially a rubbish system. The cheap, nasty Chinese stuff is exactly as you say. I wouldn't trust it to guard a cat. And as you say if someone still wants to break in, they will. That's my honest, genuine advice.

Hi there, I deleted your duplicate thread btw - please only start a topic in one forum. Anyway, we've got whippets and I know Italian ones are usually really tiny. I have just done a job using Siemens e-Line with 6 cats, and all seems well so far. If it wasn't policed I'd say give it a cautious try... And if the dogs are like most sighthounds and the owner is like most whippet owners, it's not usually possible or desireable to confine them to small space.

Yes, it's very variable how sockets are powered up, both car and van are on ignition, but my Defender (2010 reg) was live all the time.

Aren't there various oddball rolling / non rolling code versions of the 727 - that are not obvious without careful inspection? Perhaps 16 had a newer firmware / RF chipset?

hi there, and welcome

As above, modules from fleebay are actually quite well made too, and the arduino craze only makes it better pricing and quality. Just bought 3 mic modules I would have made myself in the past for pennies, and they use proper branded preamp ICs

Yep used to have a home tank, the lot. Stopped using it when I moved, sold it to a radio ham and not really felt the need since

As I said before Tracker just use a single diode on a 7ah, thats the sole component.

Get paid? Slightly better effort than my smelly alarm joke How come they went to a security Co rather than broadcast? Oh yeah, cost?!

Our factory fitted caravan Tracker has a boggo standard 7ah yuasa 'charged' via a massive diode from the caravans nominal 14.4v supply. It goes into storage twice a year with no mains and main battery isolated, for 3 and 5 months at a time. Tracker still works 3 years on (lifetime sub), will check 7ah battery when I remember to take the tester...

I'm guessing it does support multiple keypads? Just reminded of a lot of the more basic Menvier stuff, sold well into the early 90's, where it was one only.

Used to use these when we did a lot of Cat5 stuff for someone I worked for. Horrible things IMHO.

Yep this is it when you're checking every year, it's not so relevant.

Was it something like lead carbon I saw in Rs last year, five times the price but a ten year warranty?

AFAIK with telecommand you dont get to choose a number unlike zones, so t will only ever show how many previously learnt, I could be wrong but pretty sure unlike zones you cant learn t1 and t4 only, and then then come back for t2 etc... Later. Whenever I get one new out the box t0 is only shown, and thats when you can add tc or pa devices.

Has anyone ever thought of making a 7aH battery comprised of several bellbox batteries?

It should say R0 for fobs and PAs, R1 to 4 indicate how many previously learnt afair. Pressing select will get it there.

You're saying that, but £kitchen socket + £reconnection + £carrying on with existing monitoring = £? Vs. takeover and digiair = £? Could be drastically different over the long run. If ADT had offered a GPRS solution, I wouldn't have taken any issue with that, at all. I am NOT anti ADT (or any national) OP, the reasons the wireless extender is no good (and this may differ to how you understood it / how it was explained) is.. 1. It may not support the kinds of data the alarm transmits due to very tight bandwidth / clipping 2. It may or may not provide 50V when the 'telephone' (alarm modem) is perceived to be 'on hook'. 3. If the above is wrong, in that case it would almost certainly still provide 50V even when there is no outside line, so the alarm would not know the line had been cut / failed. 4. If the power were to fail (or, more importantly, be turned off deliberately) your alarm would not communicate, at all.

No, it sounded to me as if ADT had already given their options / reasons to the OP and he didn't like either of them. They also stated that to wire a socket would be very difficult if not impossible. So GPRS would have been a good solution.

Ditch ADT and get a contract with someone offering gprs digiair or better yet dual path monitoring. Telephone lines are yesterdays technology for monitoring. It all depends on the system you have, of course. Is it entirely wireless?

Yes just to be clear the speaker goes to the two terminals with the speaker symbol 'above' (on your upright pic) the Strobe - and + terminals. Not 'SOUND'. If you connect a speaker to the bell, yes, the speaker at least will probably go pop!

The SOINT1 is just a speaker... http://www.cqr.co.uk/images/stories/cqr_pdf/Internal%20Sounders/insound_soint.pdf Sure it wasn't a SOINT2? Or connected wrongly?

Suppose it depends if you are just trying to demonstrate an above average level of antisocial behaviour to plod / council rather than court as such. Still not the greatest kit though, even by budget standards.

+1 Axis are bulletproof, and no mickey mouse company to deal with either, which is a bonus.

Yeah thought that except customer says they got to choose the kitchen but were never offered an alarm Maybe some Co they had lined up pulled out Oh and there is a no bellbox covenant on the whole estate, oops!!