Abacus battery renewal

[Griffmaster]

Hi.

 

Have bought a new Yuasa 12v battery for inside my Abacus panel.

 

Is it just a case of unplugging the old and plugging in the new in Engineer mode?

 

Not sure about it affecting programming etc.

 

Thanks.

 

 

[datadiffusion]

If you have the engineer code, yes things are much simplified, although we always warn about the mains

voltages present in the panel, etc...

 

I would also check the battery again in a day or two to make sure it is actually charging.

[Griffmaster]

So just a case of unplugging the old without risk of data loss etc.

[datadiffusion]

Nope, all alarms have an NVM of some kind or another (although one day, anything between 10-25 years I guess, this will eventually fail itself as in the 9800 etc...)

 

Besides a trained installer would usually leave the mains running anyway - although we can't recommend 'working live'.

[Griffmaster]

Thanks for that datadiffusion.

 

I have no problem with mains left connected, quite use to working around electrics.

[datadiffusion]

No worries, "at your own risk" etc... etc...

[al-yeti]

Abacus not known for losing memory, although I can't rember 

[PeterJames]

1 hour ago, al-yeti said:

Abacus not known for losing memory, although I can't rember 

There was a problem with the 6p where it used to forget the user code, but that was only when it was set 

[datadiffusion]

No, none of them are probably quite old enough yet I guess, our 9800 went at only just 12 years old but I know that was a specific 'wire eprom' issue.