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It very much sounds to me as if it might need reprogramming from scratch, when did you last have it serviced and the sensor batteries checked / changed?

So, to replace the outside batteries, what did you do, did you enter your code at the panel first, do you have the engineer code? Is there anything connected to the panels aux supply, outputs, or relays?

Did you turn off the mains power?

Indeed, don't do it. Had a callout the other day where the customer at the time had refused to upgrade from a 9651 to 9751 + expander (in some ways fair enough as it was £££ at the time just to add one zone) so Garage door and Front door were combined since they also had an RKP in the garage. You can imagine the headache this caused ten years later (i.e. the other day) when the new owner of the house has issues with an intermittent tamper...

Nope this is spot on, glad we checked that last meter. Now, when was the alarm panel battery last changed? Either way, if you take the alarm panel battery out, whilst this isn't a definitive test, what reading do you get on the battery disconnected?

Sounds way too high to me. Are you able to prove the meter just to be sure?

Electronic replacements for car distributors often used hall effect to replace contact breaker too (younger readers may be wondering wtf a 'distributor' is I bet...)

Yes really, and when isolated and being that the house is being refurbished (so no powerline which is the worst offender) as I've done it can't be knocked (literally). The billy bonus being I got truckloads of the stuff, all new and unopened, for buttons. Same with home hifi. The discontinued Richer Sounds 'Incognitio' system (aka Opus) offers 6 channels over Cat5 wiring, well, I got the main boxes / PSUs cheap as chips + spares, the room controls were being sold off for buttons as they were the tabletop versions. And what is the tabletop version? It's a wall mounting version in a custom made table box. Unscrew controller from custom box, bin custom box and you have a £100 item for £10! Yes it's well 'analogue' and slightly old fashioned but it's simple and that's the key. Each room can choose one of 6 channels, for 3 of them that's radio from a fixed tuner in the main cupboard, 4th is my (actual vinyl) jukebox, 5th a bluetooth rx with a modified antenna so it covers the house... Best of all it works with any speakers you want to just reused my half decent Yamahas. No need to spend silly money or suffer tinny little pc type speakers.

Just fitted one and can confirm on mine (these are from AA access 'own brand') green when door closed and energised, red when energised but door still open.

Don't laugh but I'm doing our home using X10, simply because I have enough filters to effectively keep the lights electrically segregated from everything else (the USB controller is on the lighting circuit via a fused spur, too), it's cheap, I have an RF > Network gateway and an RF touch screen. I've even just managed to find an X10 > 1-10V dimmer from the US. What's not to like?

Wow, it would be DTs all over for me, except in a small, windowless type room if it was insulated etc...

All the retirement places round here are stay-put anyway, christ the state of some of the old codgers they'd only be halfway down their own corridor before the water fairies declared all-clear... When most of the places were built in the 70s to 90s, they NEVER imagined the average age of the residents would be near 90... Because back then they weren't, if you weren't dead at 70 something you'd almost certainly spend your last few years in a nursing home, that's how it was for most anyway.

lol

Ouch. Still, I guess the old panels got you a nice little bonus on ebay? (joke)

As far as I know (and I don't do fire, but see a lot of it on my travels) the above seems to be a widely accepted solution And, apropos of nothing...

I'm guessing this is a 'friendly' price direct from Texe when they know it's probably a faulty unit that (for once) isn't caused by the end user... And presumably + VAT and P+P. But as above, surely still under warranty, or perhaps an 'Ebay special'...

Exactly how it is round our way in most housing authority places, proper system in communal that extends to an all-in-one just inside the front door of each flat. Seems to work OK, and at least does give some warning when the alky falls asleep with a pan on the stove, eventually when it boils dry and burns it will ring ALL the flats after they've ignored 10 mins of 'that tw**t nexts doors f**kin' alarm going off again'...

I was going to say, isn't this that texe flash the strobes thing to put it in eng mode, but did assume it would time out? Or not...?

Are you sure that the back and front tamper on both boxes is closed completely with the lid on?

So, you've the two boxes wired in series so that a tamper in either causes a tamper at the panel, right?

Ah right, proper hardcore

Very odd, just my luck on this job, though cant see any good reason for it, panel seems happy with 'wide tolerence' option...

You get them with some Elmdene models

But does the SPC grumble about 'poor values'?

But still Compatible? Anyway, on to todays other query. Siemens eline DTs all within 4m of panel or expander, 3 out of 4 showing 'poor' on Eol, yet showing as 2.2k on the nail... Built in eol, copper cable. One mc right under expander and pir next to panel showing 2.2k but 'ok'. All are ok when open.... I changed eol tolerence to 'wide' but seems very fussy??? Does SPC not really like non Siemens values?? dread to think what happens on galaxy values on long CCA wires.