Optima Xm - Can I Do This?

[ChrisPBacon]

Sorry if this is a dumb question!

We have the Optima XM system which has, over the past couple of days, sporadically (two or three occasions) sounded due to a tamper condition.

I don't have time to fully investigate until the middle of the week - as a short term fix, can I remove the two wires from the tamper terminals? Can I leave the terminals empty?

If not, there is a U shaped piece of metal attached to the panic alarm terminals and a spare one sat loose inside the control panel - can I use that in the tamper terminals?

TIA for any advice )

[MrHappy]

yes it can be linked out, however the tamper circuit also nculdes the panel & the external bell

[james.wilson]

Plus its not a fix all your doing is disconnecting things. Ok if you have no choice but your alarm will have no protection from attack if you leave it disabled.

[ChrisPBacon]

Thanks for the replies chaps, I appreciate it's not a solution but it will work as a short-term fix until I can work out where the problem is.

[sixwheeledbeast]

Tampers are normally-closed connections so must be linked out.

As mentioned there are multiple tamper switches and tamper circuits on an alarm system.

[PeterJames]

As Dave said linking out the tamper wont solve the problem if its a bell tamper, or a cpu tamper

[Ronnie]

I would say that 98% of end users would consider this fixed.

[MrHappy]

I say 50% would be installed linked out.....

[PeterJames]

Back in the days of when I was an engineer, I took over a DIY system because the customers insurance company had said that it had to be maintained by a NACOSS installer. Anyway the customer was quite proud of the system saying that it had never ever false alarmed since he had installed it five years earlier, and he couldnt understand why it needed to be under a contract with a NACOSS co when he had done such a good job. When I opened the panel I discovered why it had never gone off, it still had all the factory links in the zone and tamper terminals along with the circuit cables.

Of course once the links were removed, the system made entry noises and it hadnt done that before so I had to explain the error of his ways

[MrHappy]

class,