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heard a local radio item -: many qualified an honest drivers are bing fined for driving while unaware their driving licence has expired, they had not realised as stated in the small print, the newer Photo ID licence is only valid for 10 years from issue, where as the old ones were to when you reached 70 (i think). i suggest you check yours pronto - before you cop another benial 'motorists tax' due to bad publicity of his fact pass i on folks regs alan

Thinking of starting up myself was looking for some advice on what insurances to have and the best way to get them? Do u need any sort of approvals to carry out fire alarm servicing? All comments would be highly appreciated! THANKS

Hi. I am re-installing a Chubb alarm system that I took with me when I moved house (will be wired upto a new scantronic panel not yet purchased)... Is there anyone with knowledge of the wiring diagram and how to connect the Chubb sounder W73522? It has ten points labelled: 1: Siren Hi-off 2. +V 3. 0V 4. Siren 5. Bat +ve 6. Bat -ve 7. Tamp 8. Tamp 9. +STR 10. -STR Specifically I want to get the bell connected and placed in-situ up but silence the sounder until I connect the panel. thx.philz @ zamaniphil@yahoo.co.uk

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Evening Folks, I've just finished the cable runs for my Avanti system (DIY install) and was wondering if it really is worth running a phone line extension for the UDL stuff. Does anyone use it and is it really that useful? The avanti manual is pretty **** and doesn't really make clear the benifits etc. Also - Am thinking of a seperate GSM Dialler - Would I simply take another output to the bell box to use as the input to the GSM Dialler? guys, Nick

As of next Friday ITV4 are showing live coverage of this historic event. You either love it or dont. Its great that at last this is now on "mainstream" TV. Go watch and enjoy.

Hi we have moved into a house and there is a panic button right in the middle of the wall and we would like to remove it , it is on a securit 800l system can any advise me how to do this please

i have a gardtec 360/580 alarm and the code cb is displaying in the control box or keypess which means it has been tampered with.i know it hasn`t and now it won`t reset.any ideas anyone please

I hope someone might be able to help! I moved into a house twelve months ago with a concept six system installed. In all the time I have lived in the house the system has been set to 'Day' and the green light has always been on. We never touched the system, or even turned it on or off when leaving the building. This morning at 7.30 am the alarm started sounding. Despite my best efforts I was unable to switch off. The alarm rang for twenty minutes and then stopped. The box on the front of my property is now flashing strobe light. How can correct the system so that the strobe light Strobe flashing? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello! Can anyone help me with an urgent problem of mine please? I am currently fitting a scantronic 9752 system and am using a FSL (fully supervised loop) connection process. I am finding it pretty straight forward as I've had a lot of experience (non-professionally) of installing security systems, but when it comes to wiring magnetic contacts on doors, I have a problem!!! Where do I fit resistors across the magnetic contact to complete the FSL connection? The PIR's and other sensors are using 2K and 4K resistors to differenciate between tamper and alarm conditions and I jusrt can't get my head around what to do with the magnetic contacts, because obviously, there are on…

Can anyone help me please? During building work my alarm (Concept 6) has had to be reset to the factory settings. I'd like to change the alarm code but I haven't got the user manual. I've seen the page from Kenny James which takes you up to the point where the customer code is 0123......but what happens next??? Thank you in anticipation! Celia

Can anyone give me the "legend" to the 6 & 8 core cables when wiring up a system. I have got the red and black sorted as +ve & -ve but do things like ALM and TAMPER etc need to be specific colours or just maintain continuiuty throughout tehe system ?

Am lookin for some info on security system apprenticeship i have always been intrested but havent had much look findin an apprenticeship i have fitted security alarms for people and also no a lot on fire alarm systems so i fort i would see if anyone new anywere else were thay do apprenticeship tryed //.National Installer.// but my Gcses grades werent so good so no good ? any help

Hi all, I moved into my house about a year ago & have had no real trouble with the alarm system - unless you count trying to unset it after a few drinkies! A few weeks ago the alram started to go off for no apparent reason. For the sanity of my neighbours, I decided to leave it unset. Unfortunately, I've just returned tonight & it has triggered again (whilst unset?!) the tamper button on the control panel was flashing. Has anyone any idea what could be causing this or any (Janet & John style) suggestions as to what I could do to rectify the problem please?

STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters.. S.T.R. My friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously Please read: STROKE IDENTIFICATION: During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been ta…