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Not Jeff from jb-eye but this guys list of all the things that annoy him the most is pretty funny I think, worth a read. http://www.JeffIsCool.com/annoying.html

Nah I doubt it, they don't give much away and can't imagine that being a useful combination of items, a basic panel and a detector maybe, after all there is already a keypad on the unit. Ah well, let the tat hunt continue

She is about as interested in alarms as the general public

Well confused by this - the KEY-RAS isn't even being marketed yet!! Eaton staff member? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Scantronic-I-on-Compact/143316886449?hash=item215e5a23b1:g:kNEAAOSwFQFdG6kA The panel software high enough to support it was only released last week, and the only reason I even knew it was a thing was that a new 'KEY-RAS' options menu appeared after the update.

You can laugh but once the audience has got used to the opening performance they see my turn as totally legit.

Yep a lot of panels used to have these (expecting faults?!) and scrapped them for that reason. You can sometimes still see on the PCB where the footprint was before they changed them for standard terminals.

Those bloody massive 9500 cabs were always full of Armadillos

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-RENDER-House-Alarm-Bell-Box/333253974207?hash=item4d977c18bf:g:gTgAAOSwASBdGhuY Render bell, looks GFA

Something jogged my memory the other day, what were those boxes, about the size of a small box of cornflakes, usually painted white but connected with pyro, they were always badged 'AVALON'? Were they very early voice evac systems, or sounders, they had the look of a speaker about them? But always wired up with fireproof cable whenever I saw them. If you go online and do that google walkabout thing in the now gone BBC TV centre they are full of them, but I first saw them in the early 90s in a shopping centre I worked at for a very short time before finding my pliers...

Or on quite a few scanny BS/UK spec panels, user code cannot start with zero. Problem is it didnt stop them progging it at which point the panel needed defaulting Thankfully fixed as soon as EN grade software came in.

Rare Philips DIY alarm - but only the internal sounder https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-PHILIPS-DIY-HOME-SECURITY-SYSTEM-INTERNAL-ALARM-UNIT-SBC-186/303200827323?hash=item46982d77bb:g:W0gAAOSw54hdEQ-k Alarm Manufacturer You've Never Heard Of, Of The Week https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Guardwell-Burglar-Alarm/163749297970?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131231084308%26meid%3D0160e8bf6d1b441eae2bc3f77280ef1a%26pid%3D100010%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D173941414596%26itm%3D163749297970&_trksid=p2047675.c100010.m2109 Most Overpriced Alarm Manufacturer You've Never Heard Of, Of The Week https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REV-TEK-RB6-Burglar-Alarm-Control-Panel/312306621190?hash=item48b6ecdb06:g:GNkAAOSwG1Jb5Dfo Most Overpriced Alarm Manufacturer You Definately Will Have Heard Of, Of The Week https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gardiner-Technology-Key-Burglar-Alarm-Control-Panel-OPAL/163669008351?hash=item261b6edfdf:g:pj4AAOSwc0lcxcEl Want to know why it's not sold in the UK? It was bannded because it was TOO GOOD! That said lets have a crack at selling it anyway, on a UK based website... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RANGER-AMERICAN-Power-Series-Security-Alarm-System-PC1616-Panel-PK5501-2-Keypads/133093590836?hash=item1efcff0734:g:7p4AAOSwYV5dD~-U The rare, early version at a rare, inflated price. https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Scantronic-Rfx08-8-Zone-Wireless-Expander/23011057928?iid=173861878809&rt=nc Alarm stolen from skip at work? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Range-Of-SECOM-Cooper-Expansion-Module-8-Inputs-Alarm-Circutry-Components-Etc/264381324881?hash=item3d8e5ade51:g:isQAAOSwPQBc6TJs We latched onto using the keyword 'Pyronix' because they make some alarm stuff too, right? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pyronix-burglar-alarm-fire-Alarm/323763678307?hash=item4b61d1ac63:g:J8EAAOSwRW9ce9iW Aren't these absolutely nothing to do with Scanny but someone keeps listing them as them? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Scantronic-Alarm-Control-LED-Keypad-Telecom-Security-Ref-9007/173941423872?hash=item287fb77f00:g:qiYAAOSw0B5cyxfC Old Aritech, impossible to default? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/aritech-cd95-and-prox-pad/123817142704?hash=item1cd413a9b0:g:MA4AAOSwr2tdFQcY Cool bellbox, silly price https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aritec-Burglar-House-Alarm-PIRs-Keypad-Sensors-Control-Panel-Bell/264355177500?hash=item3d8ccbe41c:g:xacAAOSwOMBbQdmq I think we saw the keypad on here the other day? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Burglar-alarm-equipment-with-phone-dialler-etc/273831115784?hash=item3fc19b3c08:g:utYAAOSw~jpcb8LZ The future is digital and wireless. The training for the future is on VHS. https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/CSL-Cs1051-Radio-Test-Set/8010837492?iid=173864632607&rt=nc

Hi everyone, welcome to the new section for old tat! Scanny, and to a slightly lesser degree, Menvier obsessive that I am, I'll be posting up pics of some of my rarer bits soon Please note that leaving NEGATIVE comments for users in this section is strongly discouraged and there should be no reason to do so.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/173947555301?ul_noapp=true If anyone bids on this I have a genuine dummy bracket brand new, or might be able to find a vintage scanny electro bell. There is/was another seller knocking out the separate strobe PCBs

Is there a spare core e.g. wire at the keypad? Surely you can use this spare core to have a gentle buzzer connected to one of the spare outputs on the panel set to a Burg signal?

Yeah I read the court transcripts

'yetiz_hot_dealz_2019', where every system comes with a slightly rattly sounding 1.2Ah Hongfeng lead-substitiute genuine-acid backup battery.

Did you do Dave from Eatons?

Fair enough then!

Going to back to what H said earlier, didn't Ade, or maybe the Knight's chap, once imply that reeds are no longer made in the UK and the 2 qualities are basically 'USA or China' with nothing inbetween, as it were? I think he also said that often quantities needed dictated ordering from both areas more often than not, so there is no easy way of knowing where your reed came from in your otherwise 'UK made' contact. I have had loads of failures, usually stuck closed, with those Ventcroft 'Premium' contacts, I don't use them any more, shame as they are a nice looking surface contact with easy EoL and a decent tamper spring. I use Knights for surface inc. industrial and RSD etc... and Elmdene circular Quickfits for flush.

Been done before, though tricky. Below is a simplified version of the more popular interface sold by Bentley, suitable for home production;

I thought that was the whole point of the system eg not having to redesign all the existing Gal wireless devices again?

Genuinely, in tribute, lets include Arf's name...

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