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Dear All, Really hoping you can help me... Yesterday upon coming back home, I noticed that the Z1, Service and Fault LEDS were blinking on the remote control panel of my Scantronics 9448+ and the control panel didn't react to the code I use to switch the alarm off (or on for that matter). I was welcomed by a cacophony of different internal alarm sounds. Nothing I tried seemed to help. I quickly researched other default codes, engineer codes, etc but the control panel didn't react to any of it. Neither the control panel of the main 9448+ unit or the remote were reacting to key strokes / codes. As it was getting late and I couldn't see myself enduring this all night I took out the fuse (3A, mains to the unit) which silenced the internal sounders but then activated the external sounder (the latter I assume is normal). Oddly the PIR detectors around the house were then reacting to movement by sounding internal short audible alarms (as if in a sort of Walk Test Mode). The Z1 PIR detector that I use for the main Entry/Exit however triggers the Exit and Entry audible signal that is heard after fully setting the Alarm or upon entering via the main entry (short successive beeps). However, throughout the night - and for no apparent reason - the internal and external sounders would all of a sudden be triggered for mainly short bursts and then continuously around 5:30am... my neighbours must have really loved me this morning :-S The only solution I found to remedy this was pulling the 3A fuse out, putting it back into place, pulling it out again, etc. Basically faffing with the fuse until the system seemingly reverted into some sort of Walk Test Mode, but still not reacting to anything?! Remark: Mea culpa... I bought this property over 5 years ago and haven't changed the battery since then. Nor did I have the alarm serviced :-S It was just one of those things that always worked and I never took the inner workings into consideration... until last night that is. I obviously should have changed the battery and I should probably also have had the alarm serviced. I definitely learned my lesson! Any feedback on how to solve this in the short-term would be much appreciated. Even just being able to switch everything off without driving the neighbours insane would be a start really. (I have a second wireless alarm anyhow, but I like having both alarms operational) Many thanks in advance :-) Greg