PeterJames

Did you not have a hard wired system before? I would have used the existing cables and replaced the hard wired system personally

He did a few jobs for me down Weston Super Mare way but he was too busy last time I asked him

When the doorbell first came out I tried one and they are nothing like the advert would have you believe, they didnt even work that well locally. Since then I tried cheapo Chinese doorbell 7 out of 10, Hik 4 out 10, Daha 6 out of 10., Ring I could only give 4 out of 10. When people ask me why I always quote hardwired if I can, my usual answer is additional annual fees due to batteries, but I will be adding you cant jam hard wired

Can you include the bonus ball this time !?

You can, but that doesnt mean you should, there could be all sort's of easter eggs hidden in the incumbents programming just waiting to bite you in the ass. From rogue user codes to zones put on double knock or areas that are not part of the main system. If your not programming it yourself how do you know that its programmed as it should be

I was thinking the same, if the panel had been defaulted when it was taken over there would be no remote codes stopping you from taking a backup

I can hear pylons and all sorts of stuff if Im close enough, I have to concentrate to hear it as my brain blocks it out. Its like when you put your sunglasses on for a second or so everything goes red then your brain says, "Thats not right everything isnt red" and then everything goes back to normal but without the pesky sun in your eyes. Assuming you have red sunglasses that is

I can hear the high frequency of some TV's , I can hear my fridge and my freezer, most of the time I just block it out. Ive never heard my router wifi or any wireless alarm devices. If they are installed by a proper company then they are most likely 2 way wireless which would mean they are not transmitting all the time they may pole every now and again and when the alarm they will signal when there is a burglar detected. The PSU will be switch mode rather than the old fashioned transformer so very little hum. Tidy!

Currently they are spend way more than they are making though. They owe a few £million, but so did Moon Pig and that sold its way out of debt. I think they are just waiting for one of the big boys to buy them, but any of the big boys that know anything about alarms will know that the company is not worth its debt ( if I found a few £million stuffed down the back of my sofa Veritat would be the last place I would be thinking of investing it). So atm they will carry on and hope the profit catches up with the debt. The things they have going for them is the ads seem good, they have a very quick turn around for installation, and the the people running it are ruthless marketing salesman. Because the ARC is NSI approved, the try to bamboozle the customer into thinking they are. In reality the kit is real tat and nothing like the adds would have you believe, the people installing it are shaved monkeys that did a weeks training on how to screw tat to the wall, and the sales is all smoke and mirrors. They dont have snowballs chance in hell of getting NSI non of their staff are CRB checked, and none of the tat they install is EN50131.

Sadly you see this junk everywhere you go nowadays, I feel sorry for the smaller alarm companies as Veri-shocking is taking on most of the sort of customers that would otherwise go with a smaller type co. ( I could have thought of a better word to describe them that begins with sh but this is public and minors maybe watching)

That's what I could see but lots of T's didnt make any sense

I cant see what it says under the grey wire and I cant see what it says under any of those terminals

Agreed with the above you could also think about an accredited company, you may get a discount on your insurance.

Your picture doesnt show what the terminals are ? The wires are in the way

Swerve Lightsys, HKC would be my choice if you're having it professionally installed, if your going DIY then it would have to be Orisec or Texe I suppose, I think Pyronix also have some fancy keypad you can use as a door prop when it goes wrong just outside its warranty.

Its sealed unlike a car battery so there is no fix for it. Replace it is one option, but if you dont like your neighbours you could not bother with a battery at all, then in every powercut the external sounder will sound and upset them. Or if you like to gamble you could just leave the battery in the panel may catch fire, it may not. To be fair never heard of one catching fire in a house (an engineers van caught fire recently due to old batteries) but there is always a first time. If you dont like the sound of those options you should either, replace the battery, get the alarm serviced, or decommission the system completely

1st two links are the same

ahh but you dont like wobbly comments on wobbly pictures of whitby

They were on the M25 today again, meanwhile in Brighton the green party were spend £thousands of taxpayers money on planting stuff on the beach.

its not like they dont happen every now and again though fires are not a new thing, theres an old windmill up near me that burnt down in 1933 in a great southdowns wild fire

The news just seems so panic panic panic nowadays, shortages in the shops causing panic buying during Covid, after that it was the fuel shortage everyone panicking to buy fuel all fuelled by the media (excuse the pun), and whats with the red pictures of the UK on the weather announcements? A few years ago that would have been a few jolly pictures of the sun in different places. Yeah it was hot today and maybe on paper hotter than any known recorded temperature but does it really warrant all the drama causing panic buying of ice cubes? They have been going on and on about inflation but I have not seen any changes in selling stuff, if anything I am selling more than I ever did, and many of my customers are expanding their businesses not the other way around ( I think most of em know something I dont ). I think the media has gone all snowflake on us, causing more grief than it should.

The only place oop north thats a bit scary is that big shopping centre in Manchester on a Saturday, I liked Leeds even if it did have more than the national average of "Game" shops for one high street. I quite liked York too

Ive been to Leeds!

Its the only way to go imo learning from your own mistakes is much harder than gaining knowledge from someone who has already made the mistakes

You need an engineer to default the codes for you, great panel in its time, but 30 years old now.