PeterJames

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

or a prostitute to no every position

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

That's the north south divide, the dancing girls are twice the price down here Liam......and half the size

£100 extra for a Saturday is cheap, How much do you think an alarm engineer earns?, they really dont need to work weekends so when you want them to you have to motivate them properly. My chaps would want far more than £100 extra to work on a Saturday they are far to busy watching dancing girls and lighting cigars with tenners at weekends

I could not forget, I take great detours just to make sure I dont bump into him

Is Essex in Surrey now??

LOL! I thought it was quite clear, but I was very drunk yesterday

hi and welcome

The problem is as soon as you re-power the system, or fit the new battery, it will start to sound and if you dont know the user code you have no way of stopping it. The Accord is fairly old and if I remember correctly the codes on their own cannot be defaulted . Theretofore the system will need to be defaulted completely and reprogrammed.

Unless you know the user code I would not advise you touch any of it, as its designed not to be sabotaged. But if you diss the external sounder then down power the mains to the internal panel you will achieve any immediate problems. If you decide then you would like to get it up and running then I would suggest you call an installer

Another thing to bear in mind if you have a power problem when your on holiday, the council will call one of us out to disarm the system and then send you a bill for their time and the alarm co. Funnily we are discussing this very subject in the trade forums. But because the poor home owners alarm was ringing internally they will get three bills one for the locksmith one for the alarm co and the third from the environmental dept. Stitch in time, save bigger bills

Covering the sensor with blutac does not tell you its the detector thas faulty, quite the opposite, you need to link the detector at the the detector if it continues to activate its not the detector, if it doesnt then it is. Currently you only know its not environmental ie something the detector wasnt seeing. It could be a whole lot of other things You dont have to replace the detector with same make but to me that looks like a Risco PIR

But dont expect them to simply give out their engineers code as that will leave all their other customers vulnerable