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Hi Just wondered why in alarm world it always seems to be mainly switched negative no positive Thanks

I need a zone configured as a keyswitch to remotely reset via an autodialler. The zone types available don't appear to have the option only ksw bat, which doesn't do anything. The 2nd part of the zone type where you can select norm/bias is fine but can't seem to figure out how to set the system with the zone types available. I've tried it on zone 5 and zone 8 but nothing. I'm using eol and can see res change from 11k to 4k7 ok. Any advise would be good if anyone else has done this on this particular panel

Hi, I am looking for help please. I have installed the above alarm at home and have a problem. I am getting the fault code ' Tamper Fault Lockout' I suspect the issue is with the bell box as everything else looks to be ok. It is a Honeywell AG6 Bell Box and when installing there was a sheet inside the box saying to wire differently to the installation manual. I have also tried another wiring diagram I found on a previous post n here but still no joy. It appears that there is only 1x tamper wire coming back from the bell box - Is this correct? I have the following terminals n the bell box - TR-, S-, V+, V-, ST- Can anyone confirm to which the T A D B wires from the control…

Discovered an Optima 2 Plus panel today on my travels, went to do a full service for the customer. When attempting to set, i had 6,5 & 2 on the visual display, obviously zone faults... However, i checked all cables, terminations & present voltage at the detectors. All came back fine. What else could this be? The only thing I did not try today was replacement sensors (they are as old as the hills) I'll hold my hand up and admit I've seen this panel maybe three times so i'm not overly familiar with it. Any suggestions? Thanks

Ive been looking at some historic threads for other reasons Made me think that some topics from +5 yrs ago are still current, some are way wrong etc Anyway this is my first

Hi folks. Quick question. ATS 2003 panel, keypad 1 & 3 set up to set/unset areas1 & 3 only and has no menu access for engineer or user. Key pad 2 is the main keypad and allows access to menus for user and engineer. However some clever fellow has accidentally unpolled keypad 2, therefore not allowing access to menus for the system. The system can be dialled into by security company (we have just been asked to do a bit of work for them). Because when I was on site and had no access to menus etc I phoned them to see if they would poll the keypad remotely but they said they couldn't. Does anyone know if this is correct and if it is does anyone have any ideas on how I …

Hi .can someone help please as I've not come across this fault before. I have a menvier T690R fitted with 14 wireless zones but it's coming up with low battery on zones 16 and 22 which are unused zones. I tried to contact cooper- menvier earlier on today only to be told they don't support this panel any longer so any help would be great full

Hi All just fitted a new alarm panel went to connect battery and like an idiot connected the terminals the wrong way round blew the battery fuse. Replaced the fuse with an exact one fitted it connected the battery the right way round and blew that. Checked for shorts but fuse keeps blowing is there any chance that I have goosed the battery. I know the battery was OK as earlier I did have it connected the right way and it worked all help would be gratefully received

hi, does anyone know anything about these two panels. i recently got them off an alarm installer as i am a collector.

I'd like to properly demonstate that graded wireless alarms aren't immune to jamming and replay attacks. In 2012/2013, I found that a Cooper iON alarm could be jammed and replayed, as it uses 1-waay RF and the protocol seems pretty legacy. What other 1-way alarms are on the market? Texecom is 2-way, Pyronix is 2-way, HKC is 2-way.

hi all. I'm after some advice about cabling for relocating 2x 16 ch DVRs, the cameras are connected via balun using cat5 cable. the dvrs are getting relocated to another room but I need to extend all 32 cat5 cables and was wanting to know if there was another way other than running 32 cat5 to new location. in the past I have seen the below cable used, Is it any good?

anybody on here do any subby work ? I need some advice on day rates , could you PM me I just need a brief answer. ta

I have to program descriptions onto a zonemaster 600, after a task downloading the link from kentec onto windows 10 I have got loop explorer. Is it as easy as connecting to the pcb and clicking connect to panel on loop explorer ? Do I need to do anything with the panel ?

HI guys n gals, Does anyone have or know of any cad program for fire plans / layouts. thanks andy

I'm currently knocking up a new leaflet to distribute around my area. Going to make full use of the Mrs being on maternity leave and give her something to do whilst she takes the boy out for a stroll in the pram! We live on a ten year old estate and in a recent power outage the number of alarms going into meltdown as their batteries hadn't been replaced in ten years was ridiculous. The number of bells still strobing after a month from no resets was even even more surprising. Since moving there I've had no end of neighbours asking for resets, services and quotes for new systems, so I'm sure I'll get a bit of business out of 30 quids worth of leaflets. …