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Hi Guys,

How do you change a Battery on a Rascal Super, and without the Alarm going off, awoke to the alarm sounding this morning at 6.24am, checked the house found no problems. The Control will not let me reset. No police siren, and only one yellow light on Day.

It was installed by a company, I pay service every year, it has never been serviced or had a battery change in 13yrs.

Thanking you for any help

John

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Hi Guys,

How do you change a Battery on a Rascal Super, and without the Alarm going off, awoke to the alarm sounding this morning at 6.24am, checked the house found no problems. The Control will not let me reset. No police siren, and only one yellow light on Day.

It was installed by a company, I pay service every year, it has never been serviced or had a battery change in 13yrs.

Thanking you for any help

John

batteries should be changed every 5 years

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It was installed by a company, I pay service every year, it has never been serviced or had a battery change in 13yrs.
Theres your issue, if you pay for it, you should have had it. A battery chnage and test is only one part of the service and should be done. May i ask what you have been paying for this service, ie what were you getting? I would advise you dont chnage it yourself as it may null any contract you have, and IMO assuming normal service company type then it should have been done.

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batteries should be changed every 5 years

This is what I have found out on this forum, my paid upto date service engineer maynot come to this forum to know that, or willing to honor the contract.

So How do I change the Battery, without tamper alarm going off .

There is a fuse block underneath the Rascal Super will this isolate, if I remove the fuse??

Thanking you for all your Help

John

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So How do I change the Battery, without tamper alarm going off .

quite simply you can`t do it without the alarm going into tamper, I would advice calling the service firm out.

Otherwise just enter your code once you`ve removed the lid

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quite simply you can`t do it without the alarm going into tamper, I would advice calling the service firm out.

Otherwise just enter your code once you`ve removed the lid

Just contacted the supplier, blames the power from mains as the problem, as I am having a lot of building work done, but the supply has never been off for more than 20mins at the longest.

Copout answer to the service routine, " Nothing can go wrong with this system, has never serviced any before"

My problem will be fixed today, but as the fault was caused by my mains, I will have to pay will read the agreement to see where I stand for when he arrives. I think finding a new service company is on the cards after his visit.

Thank you for all your advice

John

I pay

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john this isn't making sense.

you said it had not been serviced but that service had been paid for 13yrs?

what did you pay for?

is the system & battery 13 yrs old?

help us help you :)

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john this isn't making sense.

you said it had not been serviced but that service had been paid for 13yrs?

what did you pay for?

is the system & battery 13 yrs old?

help us help you :)

Looking back, god knows, We payed to have it serviced, as the reply previous, He claimed that would be for callout and service any time of day 24hr cover. Never happened. Possibly would have kept on paying if I had not found this webpage, contract renewal is Next year in May. Don't think so, will have to find a service company that will honor its contract on the Rascal or even update to a newer system. I will post his responce after he calls today.

Thanking you for all your Help

John

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agreed, IMO service contract = service, while i can see that somethimes its impossible to be in to have the system serviced you may miss one but none in 13 yrs....

Oh and nothing can go wrong?

2 questions then.

1, its not gone wrong then?

2, why does it need a service contract?

Of course they go wrong eventually and those never serviced much quicker... but fair play to it 13 yrs... never serviced.... its done very well IMO

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Just contacted the supplier, blames the power from mains as the problem, as I am having a lot of building work done, but the supply has never been off for more than 20mins at the longest.

Copout answer to the service routine, " Nothing can go wrong with this system, has never serviced any before"

My problem will be fixed today, but as the fault was caused by my mains, I will have to pay will read the agreement to see where I stand for when he arrives. I think finding a new service company is on the cards after his visit.

Thank you for all your advice

John

I pay

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