Afternoon all, first time here!
Here's one of those, probably common, intruder alarm extension speaker queries for you!
As a lover of almost anything old-ish, made by Scantronic, I decided to install my recently acquired Scantronic 9800 as a system for the house loft space, and eventually, the house in general (I've already fitted an old 9448 in the garage with pleasing results!). Now some of you may be jumping out of your seats after me saying "I've installed a Scantronic 9800" and will be shocked to know it is in an airing cupboard as well. Don't worry, it's very dry, and the hot water tank isn't really in there any more.
Now I ordered an Elmdene TS443-8, 20 Watt, 8 Ohm speaker for the system by mistake. I should have been more vigilant and bought he 16 Ohm variant, but I'm not going to hassle the wholesaler and try to return it; I'm going to make the best out of a bad mishap. It states on the front cover of the installation manual and user guide that the 9800 will accept 2 maximum 9040 16 ohm speakers or their equivalents. Now, since I'm only fitting one speaker it shouldn't matter if it is 16 or 8 Ohms, since all I'm doing is substituting 2 speakers of 16 Ohms for one of 8 Ohms, so in theory I'm just simulating the load of 2 speakers on the panel but with only one speaker, which is within panel limits I believe. Tested, sounds fine (and a whole lot cleaner sound than the Kinetic speaker I had before). All well and good, however I am running this by all of you as a failsafe measure so I don't kick myself in the shins and shout "you should have thought better and bought the right speaker" in future after breaking something, which I don't want to do.
It should be fine to put an external bell box on the system, since I'm only simulating 2 speakers on the system, again, I believe it's within panel limits, but I'd like to know, just in case, if I will need to do something to the panel to support it or something like that.
Many thanks in advance for your advice!