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  1. If accidentally 'zoom through', you get to see a nightclub where 'half man half biscuit' were playing! https://goo.gl/maps/BjZ9s7JYj7y
  2. Or perhaps drained the near-exhausted battery, and today it has finally given up?
  3. My parents old house still has my 'Casa' bell on, which I only put up a year before they moved, but bet you 100% the system is dissed, as it was a Scanny 816 in the house the the (old) 9800 fitted in the garage with 2 sheds on DTs My first bell with 'my' name on is still up, forgot that, that was actually a gardtec 300 but I moved on to a firm after very few, then worked for MOD, and didn't install my own stuff again until early 2000s https://goo.gl/maps/pzm1dttZzsq No. 5, inbetween PRW at No. 4 and DIY tat. at No. 6, shite pic thou. Was called 'FSEC' then as well. Circa 1995/6.
  4. Bump.... R40 flag cell from CPC, had no idea they sold them. http://cpc.farnell.com/univercell/db8014/battery-flag-alkaline-1-5v/dp/BT05682 My first DIY install was an Advantage A1 (tat) My first takeover / service was a Scanny 9800 My first proper installation for an electrical firm was a Gardtec 816, with the old square (but seemed so ahead of it's time) LCD keypad...
  5. Hope it was a really worthy charity... Or wait at least 2 hours for the firs false alarm if you're using the PIRs in outbuildings?
  6. Good luck with that, since you have to go back 12 years just to get a sniff of the original website... OP, it's tat, I'd bin it. I've unwittingly taken about 5 of these out over the years, tellingly only the 2-wire sirens were ever left, I never knew the make since, for some strange reason, the control panel bits were long gone... :hmm: https://web.archive.org/web/20040401064807/http://www.tdbm.com/
  7. I know they know feck all, just really making the point that it's ultimatley down to them to say what we have to do, rather than the other way round.
  8. That's nothing, I'm still waiting for the firebomb to be posted through my letterbox for my post...
  9. Well, I wouldn't get too worked up as what we will undoubtedly end up with to keep all sides happy is EUlite, basically trade and access as-was but without the other benefits and at a slightly greater per-capita cost. This will, I am without doubt, include the full retention of the EN as a working UK standard, since it will be the BSIA / NSI / SSIAB / Insurers who call the shots on what's 'approved'. I cannot see the appetite from any side, most especially the manufacturers, for writing a whole new standard just for Little Britain, which would undoubtedly be out of date and out of touch by the time the commissioning of the draft was even approved. There wasn't the energy even in the boom years and presence of several large profitable multinationals to keep the BS updated, so in these times of cutbacks I can't see anyone having the time or patience within a cut-down industry to devote unpaid and unthanked time to help develop it from scratch now.
  10. Trade members are not allowed to discuss defaulting using the forum, including PMs It's highly likely the alarm was put into Engineer mode as a cheap way of silencing one or more faults.
  11. Personally on a domestic, I would stick to simple. I have a 4 zone Fike Twinflex at home and even that is total overkill (although we do have a few outbuildings and an annexe).
  12. Only the most intrepid, knowledgeable, and cunning may be trade... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesecurityinstaller.co.uk%2Fcommunity%2Ftopic%2F40034-forum-trade-application%2F
  13. Ah right. Not sure why either company was particularly worried about the other, especially at the time, but there we go, all ancient history.
  14. Interesting... were the detectors not scanny or something?
  15. News just in, due to brexit, Scantronic are bringing back the 9851 with a 9800- option for budget installs, the Logic 4 is back as the Logic 5 (confirmation now as standard) and I've just heard that Bosch are in the process of restarting all the DA production lines in London. You can now get an Abacus from £450 without keypad, although prices do fluctuate daily.
  16. To be fair I skim read the OP knowing the spec would end in 'and costs £29.99 from ebay'
  17. Total tat chinglish manual etc... but I'm secretly impressed by these at the price... (Was sent one on Amazon Vine for free btw, that's how I know about them) The menus ONLY work via IE, but they are extensive and support ONVIF and everything.... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01EQTNFDE/ref=sr_ph?ie=UTF8&qid=1466375756&sr=1&keywords=dbpower+camera+dome Would I fit them for a proper customer? Probably not. Would I recommend them to a friend for DIY? Possibly.
  18. Here's my review of the Webway Nano, since I don't think it ever did get published here before... Webway Nano.pdf
  19. Same here, leaflets next to useless. Unless you hand deliver them, up to 50% could end up in rented anyway, which is a waste of bothering...
  20. Sure? Admittedly this is old, but I imagine the lifecycle of pickups is slower than passenger cars... http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/pick-ups-do-poorly-in-latest-euro-ncap-tests/
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