Antony Ward Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 Hi people, hopefully someone can help. Live in a house share and it has an alarm system that is never switched on, about the only thing that is in use is the door chime. Been fine for an age but last night the alarm on the control panel started beeping, issue being low battery, we can get rid of the error but around 10-15 minutes later the beeping starts again. Is there a simple way to bypass this, would unplugging the battery stop it or would it just beep as it can't detect a battery. Or, could we get the alarm set to run from the mains, the "alamp" LED is always off as we don't use the alarm system. We located that, discovered the tamper proof bit alarm, got rid of that, none of us are electrically adept so if it goes beyond just unpugging a lead and into some Mission Impossible style wizadry, might be beyond us. No issue buying a new battery, just take a few days to get here, few days of continual beeping drive us all mental. We know the user access code, not the manufacturers/installers, tried the 7890 one that stumbled upon on the internet but it didn't work. Landlord works abroad in Germany so not as if to say we can just dump the responsibiity on him as we have to live with the beeping, last time maintanence was done is 2006 according to the paperwork. Hopefully there is an easy solution before the beeping at night times drives us to insanity.
morph Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 Call your landlord and get his agreement to call the engineer out from the alarm company. Pay him and deduct the money from your next rent payment. Alarms are still doing something even though you are not actually using it. As you say your not electrically minded so this would be the best option. If landlord is not contactable then just call out the engineer and claim the money back, a reasonable landlord wouldn't have an issue with that.
norman Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 Check your tenancy agreement 1st, it may be your responsibility. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
Oxo Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 Put the panel into manager mode and leave it there. I think that will shut it up. Enter code and go into options such as code change and then stop there. I believe that will stop your bleeps.
datadiffusion Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 AFAIK all user codes on this series will just timeout to main screen eventually... c/w beeping Get the landlord to get it serviced would be the best bet. So, I've decided to take my work back underground.... to stop it falling into the wrong hands
Oxo Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 Cannot recall exactly, but certainly worth a try. Landlord is not about remember. No nominated agents?
Antony Ward Posted July 28, 2013 Author Posted July 28, 2013 Landlord will pay, he lets us take care of the house as long as it nothing to extravagent, it was just more of a time issue to sort it out. One of the connectors looked like its been corroding away and there is some fluid in the base of the metal housing unit, we poked round and the corroded battery connector just fell of and everything seems ok now. Best get an engineer out but no more beeping Thank you for your help.
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