Vintage General Discussion

Hi everyone, welcome to the new section for old tat! Scanny, and to a slightly lesser degree, Menvier obsessive that I am, I'll be posting up pics of some of my rarer bits soon Please note that leaving NEGATIVE comments for users in this section is strongly discouraged and there should be no reason to do so.

Acquired this recently; thought I'd do a post for anyone interested. This is a very old Auto Call alarm system dating back to 1959. The control panel is what's known as a G Type. Designed by a guy called Ted Gant hence the name of the panel. Fitted by Auto Call and also Ideal Fire and Burglary. The system consists of a large panel box that houses 4 flag cell batteries and a set of control relays. Then theres a smaller hinged box known as the control panel thats got a red lamp, three position wafer switch, and keyswitch mounted to the front. Then theres the bell box which housed a gent bell and occasionally had a tamper loop around the cover. And finally a small wooden b…

Recently got a minerva 16e not sure how you add or delete addresses on this panel ive been given a 6 digit code but cannot find anything to program this panel

Hello people. i am completely lost with this panel. It’s an old a1 thing, however it is coming up with an ‘EXIT’ light and won’t set. No exit zone and Exit terminator has been both linked and left as is with no joy. Any help is appreciated tia jay

Every time I see this I think must share it as somewhere

Im back after 3 years Was wondering if anyone had the installer manual for a scantronic 4700 never seen this panel before and cant find any information on it

For those that have never seen them, allow me to introduce you to "The flag cell" (1st picture) They are like a "Torch battery" only much bigger, and were 1.4v (I think some were 1.5v ?) Some alarms ran entirely on these, no power supply, just a bunch of these in the panel. (2nd Picture) Over time when power supplies were used for the panel, they still relied on (What is now known as) End of line cells, these were often found in the most obscure places (Which always took ages to find) but were always to be found in these custom-made battery box holders (3rd Picture) The pictures are not all from the same house, but there was one person who refused to upgrade her…

Been given 2 of these, both new but tatty boxes Before I consider them as WEEE I thought I'd document them for the nerds here. Didn't find much info on them from searching.

Anyone out there know how to wire up a bell box sab to a omega 5 panel?

So you might have noticed back in the day a few Telecom Security boxes, the earlier ones of which had the famous post-81 British Telecom logo on. https://burglaralarmbritain.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/telecom-security-southwark/ It seems they were bought by Modern Alarms but also seemed to be still around for a short time at least, by the time Modern themselves were rolled into ADT. By the end they appeared to be using the same Galaxy systems as ADT, but with Telecom branding on the RKPs and the 'famous' coloured buttons for Police, Fire and Medical. But what I've got hold of is one of the earlier, very definately not-av…

Yep, I do indeed own a 1990s Fulleon 24vdc motorised fire alarm bell manufactured in January 1998.

I haven't seen anything like this for a long time, vaguely remember something about these being ultrsonics?

Brand new, still in its packet, no idea how old it is, and somewhere I have some blocks for it too.

Hello, was wondering if anyone could tell me about this sab module? Found it in an SSW bell box; I've figured out most of the connections but there are still some that elude me. This is what I've got so far T1 - 0v T2 - 12v T3 - Positive trigger T4 - Tamper return? T5/T6 - Extra tamper? T7/T8 - Bell T9/T10 - Polarity link for tamp return? T11/T12 - Battery enable There's also 4 solder joints above where the battery was once fitted - is that where the tamper switches go? Any help would be much appreciated.