Rulland

There's always a choice, and mine wouldn't be under carpets, out of sight and easy to damage. If you're good there are ways to minimise the visual impact of cabling whilst keeping it safer from mechanical damage. Can you explain how to run a cable with minimal sheathing/protection under a carpet correctly please?, I'm intrigued.

There are far better ways to route cables usually, it may take a little more thought and enginuity-and thus more time-and they dont all entail ripping up floorboards, but I think all us installers know that carpet ultimately causes problems in the future, We all know that from experience.

Neither a decent engineer or surveyor would suggest running cables under a carpet though!.

Quad and DT to give confirmed in a bygone age.

Nice one mate, congratulations.

£10 says you had to google that spelling Andrew!, but so saying, you appear to be a guru on certain things, maybe spelling is one of them mate, lol-talking of which, A coach load of tourists stopped at a local eatery in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (known by locals as LanfairPG), a town just as you get on to Anglesey, or Ynys Mon as it's known in Welsh, and they're quite taken aback by the awe of the whole longest name thing and one of the party asked the driver, "Can you repeat slowly where we are please", "Certainly", he says, "no problem, we are at Buuuurrrrrgggggggeeeeerrrrrr kiiiiiiinnnnnnnnng".

T cut-original.

Could be any one of them I reckon then judging by the state of the installs I've seen in the past!-any excuse not to use clips, trunking or any other method of cable containment-unless cable tieing to 230v cables counts.

Better surely than 4mm White clips knocked in every 8"-less obtrusive IMHO-and less potential for damage to!.

Do they do a wool handled one by any chance?

Adi, but it doesn't appear to have the triangular type socket I require mate.

Afternoon Guys, After a bit of help if possible, I'm trying to aquire one of the above triangle anti vandal/tamper screwdriver bits, Been to Norbain who have given me the info but will not supply me with one cos I don't have an account, and I don't wish to open one purely for want of a damn screwdriver!. Has any kind sole here got a Norbain account, or any other supplier of the bit, that would be willing to help me purchase one-it's fast doing my pip in lol. Kind Regards. Richard.

Morning all, I was grafting all weekend so had an early night yesterday!, and yes the comment was aimed at the 'cowboy' who installs Prems etc and knows naff all about them. Apologies if it seemed I was accusing-not my intent-and thanks guys for defending me. Richard.

Forum name 'Rulland',user/real name 'Richard' My apologies James,just thought it was easier for the op. Richard.

Sorry but if you aint used to real intruder kit you dont make the basic mistake of specifying more than 8 zones-cowboy!...........

OP wont have access to manuals, so here are the XM guides-one is the 'scanned',the other isn't!. Optima XM user Guide.pdf Optima XM user Instructions.pdf

B)B)B) Who's he calling an oldie!!-I'd take exeption if I were you.................LOL

Now Now Alarmguard-Count to 10 and breath deeply-in..................out....................in............... ..out

Although you aint reached the fabled 100 yet!

Hi Mark, I sincerely hope it all works out for you, as I think we all do on TSI. Regards. Richard.

Looks like it's requiring an engineer or anticode reset for some reason-I'd reset and check the progging and adjust as required.

Hi Al, Your diagnosis sounds correct-the panel will take any battery from a 1.2-6.0 Ah-proberably best to take the lid off and directly replace whats in there at the moment-obviously when you take the lid off it's going to go into tamper-just put your code in to shut it up-when you've put lid back on just reset the panel. Regards Richard-Conwy Intruder Detection