[Things found in airing cupboards]

I once drilled into a live bat that was asleep in a cavity wall !

And passed it on for lunch to your mate Ozzy?

[Optima XL6 manual needed]

well not quite - youve had a look obviously ( its an old chestnut )

Nope. It's one that's always going off randomly so I recognise it's sound.

It's also at a house where there's a very loud car alarm that goes off for about 15 seconds every time they use the car - dunno why, presumably a dumb design or incorrectly fitted. It wails then makes 3 or 4 loud beeps as they disarm it. As they regularly go out early and wake people up with it they get no sympathy.

[Optima XL6 manual needed]

Hi all.

I've an Optima XL6 alarm. It seems we must have some problem with our electrical system as the fuse that the alarm is wired keeps blowing out. As a result the alarm has been going off for just over two hours now and is still going strong (starting at 5am in the morning!).

Is there anything I can do to stop it? Any help/ suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Nick.

Unfortunately you have 3 basic choices:

1. Wait until the batteries run out and leave it disconnected

2. Sledgehammer!

3. Call out an alarm engineer

As you probably realise, methods on how to disable an alarm can be of great use to burglars so can't be posted here in public.

PS Oddly enough an alarm over the road from me has been going off now for about 10 minutes - everyone is ignoring it.

[Please Can You Identify This Control Box]

lol, gets better.

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