PeterJames

Mine are EM not Mifare Thanks for the mention though Jan

Gaz will love this but I blame Thatcher LOL

Cough!

LOL you're beginning to sound like the OP Yeah its really easy anyone that seen a picture of an alarm can start their own business

I admire your guts, but remember 4 out of 5 new businesses fail in the first year. Gaz is giving you good advise, my first business failed miserably, and I had over ten years experience before I went it alone again, I had managed other peoples businesses for several years too, 14 years on and I am still learning new stuff

I have always known it but sometimes idiots are hard to spot, and even though you believe that everyone should have a chance, But dont just take my word for it ask any employer here, we have all employed an idiot or two, the last idiot I employed has gone on to work for four more employers, and he has been with the last one for nearly a year now, they must know he's an idiot by now it only a matter of time

Yes your right Gaz, but sometimes you employ an idiot that lies his way through the interview, and it takes a while to find out he's an idiot because one you dont want to believe that your that stupid to take on an idiot, two he is quite good at covering his tracks he may be an idiot but that doesnt mean he is stupid, if he was an idiot and stupid you would have spotted that straight away in the interview, and lastly if you are a nice boss you will give him the benefit of doubt, and a chance to prove you wrong. But I will never employ someone with those traits again which doesnt mean I wont employ another idiot but the idiot wont be as much of an idiot

Turnover is nothing we could all be busy fools you need to make profit not turnover I assumed it was the one he quoted

I said Most Gaz, you are probably the exception, and everytime I have lost an engineer I have got a better replacement ....though in some cases that wasnt hard

Are you sure that the readers are not multi format readers? I think you will find they can read Mifare

Everyone is replaceable and usually by someone better, because the boss learns from his mistakes and knows what to look for, a good business is ever evolving. That said I have yet to find the perfect employee, most are successfully running there own businesses

I was only saying to one of my engineers just the other day, you boys think its easy for me sitting in a nice warm office, drinking tea made by fair maidens, you forget everytime you have a bad day I also have a bad day, the problem is theres several of you,and sometimes several of you have a bad day on the same day and that means I have a bad day several times the size of your bad day. Then theres the customers, they do their level best to get out of paying, "but the engineer said its the service guys fault" or " I pay £79.00 per year so call-outs should be free" Then theres the admin staff "I didnt send an invoice because the engineer didnt sign the paperwork" or " I thought I would order an extra one of those for stock because we didnt have any" never mind the fact that we have only used one of those in the last twenty years and its likely to be twenty years til we need another then. Yeah running your own company is a barrel of laughs most days. Still at least I have plenty of £50.00 notes to light my cigars with

My advise would be start off as a subbie this way you will have work while you are doing your own thing, as a one man band you will never earn enough to pay your way otherwise

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You sound like the sort of customer they should be wanting to keep, if you were one of mine I would try my best to luck after you fairly , hopefully they will see it that way too. Good luck

I may be missing something here but why cant you just wire the virgin socket to the bt extensions? Surely theyre not a million miles away?

I couldnt see any mention of grading

I forgot they had that function

You could try down powering and powering up mains first then battery, when was it last serviced?

Not really, a multimeter wont tell you the full story as ideally it should be tested under load. Another easy way to tell if its beyond repair is to look on the rear of the PCB (You have to remove it from the case ) there is a large resistor, if that is scorched its most likely too late to change the battery, if its burnt or crumbles in your hand its way too late. Be careful there is mains electricity in the panel

do you have more than one keypad?

Could be a waste of money if the battery has been out for a long time the charging circuit is very likely to be no good, as said earlier at least check that there is power coming from the battery terminals before wasting your money on a new battery.

No I am very content with my life, I just wish the rest of the world was less fkd up

SDI came along and then someone found a way to improve it they called it CVI Thats the problem with technology just a soon as you buy a 3D 60inch top of the range Samsung TV they will bring out a 4K version you buy that then they bring out the curved screen version, and so on.

Thats because you;re a busy fool Imran