PeterJames

Hi and welcome to the forum. There are a number of ways you could do this using ir beams. or ground loops. But I think most decent CCTV manufacturers would have this covered with something like vehicle counting vehicle detection and ANPR. Ground loops would probably be the most reliable method of detection

It not your fuse box doing it. The siren is not supposed to sound when the power is tripped, could you imagine the chaos if this happened to every alarm in your street in a power cut. There is a battery in the bell that is designed to make the external sounder sound when there is no connection from the control panel. The panel is constantly supplying voltage to the external sounder, if it loses the voltage like when someone cuts the wire going to the sounder the battery then takes over and the sounder sounds. The panel also has a battery inside, this battery keeps the panel powered in a powercut, this also means that the panel is able to keep the voltage going to the external sounder thus preventing it from sounding in a powercut. The fault you describe, your external sounder sounding in a powercut, there is something wrong, as above probably battery or battery fuse or charging circuit. The sounder intermittently sounding is a symptom of the fault, not the fault, to test if the sounder is good, with the power on set the alarm off by aring it and walking into the armed area. If the sounder sounds as it should, then you need to get someone that knows what they are doing to take a proper look and make a proper diagnosis of what is actually wrong.

I reckon he is another Aaron, starts of like he has and builds himself a nice little empire, I agree working for someone else is how you learn the trade and earn some cash, thats how most of us started our empires, and our bosses before us.

Lets hope its not too late for that, if the battery has been pulling the charging circuit down enough to blow a fuse it may be your panel is unable to charge a new battery

As you get bigger you need more people to answer the phone, run around doing the servicing, and installing. My full time job nowadays is surveying and selling the stuff, I do go out when we get busy and I have done on more than one occasion over the last couple of years, but I get a backlog of office work when I do, hence why you will eventually need staff, and they are hard work. For your ability Logan I would employ you like a shot, but from reading your posts I dont think you would last very long working for me. You are definately are a very clever bright young man, with a talent for electronics, you have a good understanding which many people of your age and for that matter any age sadly lack. But I think you may well be pretty much unemployable (which is not a criticism, many on here that run their own business including myself are unemployable) just because its your way or the highway attitude, as you get older and get a bit more life experience that will change. You will do well though, to achieve what you have so far at your age is a big thing and I admire you for that.

how do you know they were fine, did you check them with a multimeter? The battery one is your charging circuit when was the battery last replaced, if that fuse has blown its normally because the battery is drawing too much current, in other words knackered

You have blown the internal aux fuse

If you sold fibre for a living thats what you would say too, then when it doesnt work, just say oh dear your system is one of the 1%. Of course your installer has told you it needs to be upgraded, you asked them their advice, and that is their advice. Most here would give the same or similar advice, not because anyone wants your money, we make no financial gain giving you advice but you came here asking for advice. Your cheaper alternate would be to add a gsm dialler as suggested by other, this will have additional monthly fees for SIM etc, there are wifi signalling units out there too, but again there will be costs for these too as they work via servers which cost money to keep running. What I will say is your Vocom will be no good after 2025 as openreach plan to digitise all pstn by then anyway. My advice would be upgrade the panel if you can afford to, if you cannot, the choices are GSM or Wifi if your installer has a universal Wifi solution

The AI is finding the footage from an instagram picture taken near the cctv camera. It goes to show how very intelligent cameras are that it can identify someone from their photo on a webpage

Best is not easy to install but not available to non trade anyway. Easiest for you would be ION as its what you are used to. The battery voltage is no indication of its health, a fecked battery will still read 13v the panel has been pushing 13v through it, its not like your torch battery dropping volts as it gets used, you need to load test it too find out if its any good. If its older than 4 years old then you should replace it. If its several years older then it will fail a load test for sure, and that may well be the cause of your bus problem

Regularly serviced? battery replaced every 4 years. Could be several reasons for the panel to default, it was an old panel in 2015 its ancient compared todays panels.

I sort of thought the same but then I thought, how is a burglar going to put it in engineer mode first, engineers code wont disarm the system if its armed, and if it did why would they be bothered about it not disabling the sound. If it were an inside job why remove the sa? It wouldnt make it look any less of an inside job.

Basic two way, send a signal to say its being tampered much like a detector. Not intelligent two way in the respect it knows its in engineer.

Agility is one way wireless, surely two way coms would be required for a panel to tell a bell its in engineer. In the same way it would tell detectors its armed. Im not saying your wrong, but why would manufacturers make a wireless system that disables the bell in engineers and not make a hard wired one that does the same. After all you only need 5 of a 6 core cable to wire an sas so you have a spare if you only use 6 core. Not that I would use it though its sound too much of a risk. Very few would do it though, too much faff and another thing that could go wrong, with serious consequences, nobody wants a failed to operate on their hands.

No engineers mode wont stop it from sounding, it will still sound when you open the box. Engineers are fairly quick to stop it sounding once its open, and once the battery is disconnected its silent, they can then move the dip switch to 5 sec put the new battery on the sounder will sound for 5 secs they then move the dip back to 20 mins. Nobody can disable the external sounder from sounding without opening it first, unless the battery is already flat, or the sounder is faulty

Next week Ive decided to go to work each day in a different bread related fancy dress.....roll on Monday.

I nearly got myself out of a ticket by telling the Police woman she looked king stunning.......and then I cocked it up by saying "and thats not the drink talking"

QFA Risco is not a great brand but compared to the tat being marketed on Amazon and Ebay, its miles ahead

The agility is a diy system? Not even engineers can get around a bell tamper, the bell is made so that it cannot be compromised without bringing attention to itself. The problem with not having a service contract is you have no one to call at silly o clock in the morning, when the sounders going and the panel is not responding

Put it in engineers and then get the ladders out, and put your ear defenders on remove bell and dis the battery. this will be noisy and the strobe has high volts. Then down power the panel and remove the rest

She used her personal Gmail too

The battery did well for 9 years, the life expectancy is 4 years, if the battery was defective it would damage the charging circuit, the only way you will find out if thats happened would be your next power cut. I would be very surprised if a storm caused the RCD to trip RCD stands for residual current device and as the name suggest its monitoring the residual current on a circuit, even if the earth was locally hit by lighting its unlikely to change the residual current on just one circuit.

Depending on if the system is regularly serviced, the battery should last around 12 hours without mains and should recharge within 24 hours. But my concern would not be the alarm, it would be the RCD tripping especially when no-one is home to switch stuff on and off, what else is on the circuit ? Did you have a look around the house for small fires?