datadiffusion

The posters have not logged in since 2010 and 2009 respectively, however if you have a question about Daitem I would urge you to start a new topic.

Yep, takes a while to get used to though, deffo not DIY, assuming OP is trade?

We do not give these details out in the public area, sorry.

But bear in mind most electrical places will only sell cca or not even know. Note that 'Tinned Annealed Copper Conductors' is fine, i.e copper. Its cca or any mention of aluminium, or no mention at all, you need to avoid. Tlc Direct appear to claim 'Tinned Annealed Copper Conductors'. Branches in your area.

Nah, should be easy to rip it all out of the plaster!

CCA cable is harder to work with, as it often has a cheaper and less flexible outer jacket, often poor quality, and prone to being fragile at terminations as aluminium is. OP, do yourself a favour and spend a couple more pounds - that's all it is - on quality, copper cable. You won't regret it!

And, again, I'm saying this is 99% likely to be utter nonsense.

Not sure I follow this at all. OP, you would be able to replace this system with confidence, as I have personally never known a 816MHz system suffer from accidental jamming. Especially with 2-way wireless or Mesh wireless (from Texecom) where the components are regularly 'polled' and alternative routing is potentially available (with mesh types). A new system need not cost the earth and would give peace of mind and confidence in the system performing when it actually needs to.

Try the Elite version... http://www.texe.com/uk/uploads/PremierElite_48-W_LIT.pdf

Suspect confusion of EN with CE marking. Any old tat easily attains a CE mark, especially when self certified funny enough...

Ah possibly, I know one replaced another

500r was 418, 500r+ was 433 afaik

Ah but isn't that replaced by the YEND74?

I would double check the manual as with panels like these, in Walk Test or Engineer mode, LEDs may have different meanings. i.e in Engineer Mode, Walk Test could mean an option is turned on or off and have nothing to do with the label applied to it, which only applies in 'day' mode. In fact, I believe that this LED means '9' in engineer mode. However, the user manual does state that; It does not give any help for a solid 'jamming' LED.

...and most of them are cheap CCA like the rest. There are few remaining quality brands of copper cable, so forget the 'brand' look for the words '100% copper' and avoid 'CCA' Most cables on ebay, all the alarm cable from cpc, screwfix, toolstation etc... are CCA (Copper Coated Aluminium) so be forewarned!

It's unlikely, unless the installer had VERY old stock. IIRC the 500r was obsoleted very early on in Scantronic wireless history, due to it using 418 and then 433Mhz wireless devices. Most units will be around the 15-20 year old range, sadly now that Cooper are Eaton, the useful web pages showing obsolescence dates for various items is gone

Yup, I take it all back, OP has an alarm that has had 3 FA's in 3 months, on a 20 year old + system that was obsoleted relatively early in it's life by Scantronic way back in the 90's, with codes that don't show a definitive reason, but no, not much wrong.

Oh

There could be so many reasons, but frankly only one answer - time for a new one. There are too many variables and too few diagnostic indicators on a system of this age. One (or none, or more) transmitters could be faulty and causing this, but the system is only 1 way and has no proper interrogation mode. It could also just be the tamper on the outside bellbox, but I would expect this to happen if it was set or not. To check a transmitter at 'base level' or to monitor possible background interference requires an operative ideally equipped with a long obsolete Scantronic Reciever tuner/tester box. It really is time to upgrade this system to a more modern type of wireless alarm (or, wired if you can). Why put up with an ancient, unreliable alarm, comprised of obsolete parts, to look after the most expensive asset you own?

Is that because it's disconnected?

I'm (we are?) very pleased you avoided the Yale. But did you spot that some of the Yale kits retail for more than £300. And we still consider them junk. How much did you spend on your car, flatscreen TV, ipod / iphone, SKY membership, gym membership last year? Did your house cost £3000 - if it did then spending a tenth of that on security would seem fair. £30,000? One hundredth on protecting the biggest asset you own? £300,000 - doesn't £300 seem like a very small amount to spend, when there is little we would recommend for that price (for the whole house anyway). The best I would recommend is a 'starter kit' at around your budget and adding everything else as soon as you are able.

Over spilt milk...

Ah, very interesting re. the EN. My parents house is a case in point, prewired in 2007 using terrible CCA and being a 2 storey town house it makes a difference resistance wise.

Some say he took retirement, dissolusioned with the forum, it's posters, and the industry he once loved. There are others, who say he never left...

Sad *******. Like it.