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Hi All I'm pulling my hair out (whats left of it!) with an Abacus model 6/8P/8ABI/15/72 (by DA Systems?) with LED panel I inhereted which seems to have gone down. System was/is serviced annually. The local maintenance people have been round and having found fault in the transformer advised spares unlikely and should consider a Veritas R8 as a replacement etc. to remove possibility of other components going u/s. Questions: 1. Are Abacus still around and spares? Trawling the web has found nothing. 2. Veritas systems in Forum seem problematic re codes, following power failures etc? 3. Existing system has 3 vibration sensors, 3 PIRs, 1 front door contact and remote led …

I've been installing an Accenta G3 mini and got it all working (quite pleased with myself However, the manual recommends a dedicated spur to the main fuse board... 1) I don't have and spare breakers on my main fuse board, and 2) It would be extreemly difficult to get a spur back to the board. Is it 'ok' to take a spur off a socket loop?

I was at work when i heard the cctv monitor bleep and the display screan said alarm cam 3 this is at the back of the building it did this about three times then the phone rang and then the monitoring station rang and said they are taking the systems of watch. What could be causing the PIR to activcate

Hi, Im in the south east (luton, bedfordshire), and currently have an optima plus 2 i need to upgrade, because I'm automating the garage doors, which will be a pointless exercise unless i upgrade the alarm, cause ill still have to go into the house to unset the alarm before i can open my garage doors! you see the garage doors automatically trigger the alarm unless i use front door first to go into house and unset the alarm. I could just call out an engineer to make the garage doors act like the front door and give me time to get into the house and unset rather than immediately triggering the alarm, but I figure if i have to go to the expense of calling out an engineer, …

Hi, I have a veritas R8. On part set it never false triggers lately it has false alarmed on sensor 1 on 3 occasions when on full set. Today I set it and omitted the offending zone. But the other remaining zones false alarmed any advice as to what the problem might be Alan

Hi Hope someone can help me, i've recently just moved one of the PIR's and sounder for my alarm system as they were originally installed in the wrong place. Everything seemed fine until i cut the power to the whole house to carry out some more electrical work. As soon as i cut power the bell outside rings constantly until the power is restored. The keypad isn't it at all while the power is off. I know this is a stupid question but am i right in thinking that the battery is causing the problem? Really hope someone can help Thanks

Hi, I have 2 keypads for my Veritas R8 alarm and both the doors drop down on their own, any advice on how to tighten them up ??

the ademco accord system fitted in my house from new will not set as it keeps sensing faults on zones 5, 6, 7 and 8, illuminating the led's and stopping the system setting. i can isolate these manually but this needs to be done each time and also the night set option wont work when I do this. The problem I have is there are only 4 live zones on the alarm, zones 5 6 7 8 have never been connected / made live. is there a way to set the alarm to 'ignore' these unused zones automatically instead of having to manually isolate the zones every time the alram is set? thanks

I have currently got 2 single push panic buttons that are self resetable i want to upgrade them to double push latching buttons that need to be reset with a key. I have looked inside the PA in the hall and it has 2 wires one black and one red would i be able to swap them as i have looked inside at a picture of a double push and there seems to be a lot of wireing screws the one i have currently got only has 2 screws to connect wires please can somebody help?

Set the alarm as normal before leaving for work. During the day there was a general power cut in our area, power came back shortly afterwards. On return home the system was off, power lights show on the control panel and box. No response from any buttons. (I have changed the battery a couple of years ago so don't think thats a problem). Can anyone suggest anything? Thanks

Hi, Can anyone help? We have a Veritas 8 alarm fitted in our house. I was working on the door bell the other day and turned the fuse off at the box. When I turned it back on again, all the lights came on on the alarm panel and none of the buttons work! Can anyone help? Thanks Rob

I want to connect 2 16 ohm extension speakers to a ADE optima compact G3 alarm panel, I would like to know what wire to use please can somebody help? Thanks Joe

i just moved into house alarm fine,but i need 2 reset codes. wen i power up it just keep armin. tried 1234..4321..5678 nothing happens ....help please

I am writing on behalf of my neighbour the house next door has accenta 8 and basic external sounder with 1 flashing LED at about 5 oclock the alarm set off with siren sounding then the siren started to make funny noises sounding like chirps and the LED is not as bright as usual do you know what is wrong and do you have any ideas what could have caused it

I have got a sounder it is a lyntek twin piezo unit and would use it for a internal sounder it is also known as a sound bomb would ot be possible for my installer to connect this to my Optima Compact G3 panel the only sounders i have got is the one built in the panel and the external sounder which is a aztec 1000 bell box made by kinetic sounders as i dont know what current consumption the external sounder takes i know that the lyntec is 95ma current draw. the only problem is i dont know what my panel max ma current consuption is for the sounders. Also the lyntek sounder has only got two short wires a red and a black how would my installer connect this to the panel?