Alarm Sounder Box Nightmare to Reach

[datadiffusion]

Buy cheap, pay twice.

 

An ineffective alarm that merely looks pretty is only false peace of mind.

[EDinMK]

2 minutes ago, Logan said:

Also to be honest my neighbour had the same system and they weren't able to turn it off i had to smash the bellbox off the wall (didn't require much force at all) to shut it up

 

another good reason for powering via a wire then !

just switch off the supply 

 

i dot fancy knocking this off to be honest.
think about a dorma window ..think about an alarm box right above it 
cannot be reached by ladder from any side without WALKING on old tiles !
or putting a platform on each side and then planks acrosss

 

 

 

 

[EDinMK]

4 minutes ago, Logan said:

Can you take a picture of the old  panel and the external sounder  so i can help

well panel is in the bin last year, they have never seen it working and the sun had worn all the writing off ..the only reason i know its a gardiner

as it was wrote inside. it had a small pcb in there and a leaky large battery ...sort of oval thing. But someone had cut the wire years ago and just taped it up inside with 
sellotape ...nice

 

the box MIGHT be a gardiner too ....but then again its been repainted several times by the look of it ...it may have once been white, but its been repainted red at leasty twice

and it has no stickers on it ...or they have been painted over .....inside is a pair of BELLS ...not a siren ...it looks like 2 alarm clock bells with a transformer between them

I am presuming its worthless buddy ...unless I am wrong 

[MrHappy]

9 hours ago, datadiffusion said:

 

 

 

[MrWaghorn]

I laughed way more than I should of at that...

[MrHappy]

3 minutes ago, MrWaghorn said:

I laughed way more than I should of at that...

 

Its grrrrreat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

(sorry wrong tiger)

[MrWaghorn]

 

 

[EDinMK]

That's not the same alarm i have its the IA series

(although not sure what the difference is)

 

But i think what we have to realise here is

1. not EVERYONE has several hundreds of pound to fit an alarm
2. Not everyone needs a host of features and configurations you find on expensive models

3. ANY alarm is better than NO ALARM (even if its only marginally)

 

Not sure how many alarms Yale sell but I am guessing its thousands a year probably several thousand. So if they were 
all ****, they would stop production through loss ...So I am presuming they are at least OK ..anything can have a fault

 

For Example

 

I have a nice car (i think so) its a 17 Plate Range Rover 
Next Door has a 13 Plate Kia

 

I am SURE it doesn't have half the features mine has ...but it has ALL he needs ..and his services wont cost £500 either !
or he wont be paying £489 a month in repayments !

Do I swagger about when we are in the drive together...No

What I am saying here is CHEAP isn't always ****

and value for money is SUBJECTIVE

dependant on needs and funds

 

 

 

anyway ..i will let u know how i get on with my adaption of the sounder ...who knows i may convert
you all to Yale-ys

 

[james.wilson]

3 minutes ago, EDinMK said:

That's not the same alarm i have its the IA series

(although not sure what the difference is)

 

But i think what we have to realise here is

1. not EVERYONE has several hundreds of pound to fit an alarm
2. Not everyone needs a host of features and configurations you find on expensive models

3. ANY alarm is better than NO ALARM (even if its only marginally)

 

Not sure how many alarms Yale sell but I am guessing its thousands a year probably several thousand. So if they were 
all ****, they would stop production through loss ...So I am presuming they are at least OK ..anything can have a fault

 

For Example

 

I have a nice car (i think so) its a 17 Plate Range Rover 
Next Door has a 13 Plate Kia

 

I am SURE it doesn't have half the features mine has ...but it has ALL he needs ..and his services wont cost £500 either !
or he wont be paying £489 a month in repayments !

Do I swagger about when we are in the drive together...No

What I am saying here is CHEAP isn't always ****

and value for money is SUBJECTIVE

dependant on needs and funds

 

 

 

anyway ..i will let u know how i get on with my adaption of the sounder ...who knows i may convert
you all to Yale-ys

 

We get your point and it highlights other issues with cheaper diy equipment, ie blink, ring cctv etc.

No-one here will be converted to use yale, we have all seen it and would rather use anything else ie their is recognised pro stuff that is similar money.

 

We had a recent convo on here about cctv and it seems the belief with conumers is that 'high quality' cctv is available installed for about £500 this is simply not true.

However as long as the person buying/installing/using the yale system understands its insecurities etc they may not be a concern. To me they would be as you are telling the world from outside what system you have and google how to get around it.

 

But back on topic

In theory soldering onto the battery connections with a regulated psu 'should' function, but wont work in the event of an ac fail, may cause battery monitoring issues and is not recommended.

[EDinMK]

7 minutes ago, james.wilson said:

We get your point and it highlights other issues with cheaper diy equipment, ie blink, ring cctv etc.

No-one here will be converted to use yale, we have all seen it and would rather use anything else ie their is recognised pro stuff that is similar money.

 

We had a recent convo on here about cctv and it seems the belief with conumers is that 'high quality' cctv is available installed for about £500 this is simply not true.

However as long as the person buying/installing/using the yale system understands its insecurities etc they may not be a concern. To me they would be as you are telling the world from outside what system you have and google how to get around it.

 

But back on topic

In theory soldering onto the battery connections with a regulated psu 'should' function, but wont work in the event of an ac fail, may cause battery monitoring issues and is not recommended.

 

also i have had a thought that in the event of an AC cut the alarm box wifi would need to be re-paired or learned or whatever so ....its back to the d Cells. It come with Varta Power One  x 4 ...is there anything LONGER LASTING I can fit.
excluding the exorbitant Lithiums OFC