PeterJames

Do you think its the friendly banter that puts people off posting ?

Hi we dont give out engineering manuals here, and teh user manual wont help you

Hi and welcome

I guess the manufacturers as they are all different

When I had a motorbike I used to use the petrol cap upside down as an ashtray , I couldn't afford an proper ashtray

Supposed to be finished by 2025 though thats a lot of homes

Or taken the engineer link off the bell?

I think you have to put it all in

I heard a rumour that if you leave it in the freezer overnight it defaults ?

Also when was the battery last replaced?

Its one way wireless so its nothing to do with distance, or waht it has to travel through. You can add a 12vdc PSU to these bells that would stop the battery going flat

Its a three year old thread, he has probable bitten the bullet and moved on to the 21st century now

Ive tested most of these doorbells now Ring Hik Dahua Chinese cheapos, and they do work 8 or 9 times out of 10, and so the alarm should be fine ......most of the time. Seriously though, the doorbells are nothing like the adverts would have you believe, my ring doorbell missed so many parcel deliveries and I know that the postie press the button because I have hard wired reliable CCTV. And it alerted falsely so many times even on the lowest setting that I couldn't use the motion detect at all. I do not understand why anyone would have a doorbell, understand that it doesn t always work, and then think I know, Ill use their alarm to protect my home. Its sods law that it will let you know just as the burglar is leaving, thats what the doorbell does.

Most live boxes have flashing leds some dummies have flashing led, most ADT boxes are dummies. Would you trust Ring? I wouldnt

Ive done it before you need to see which circuit terminals are common, I havent tried with an Accenta. But that said I would think the person who ran the cable would be more of a clown if he joined one of the unused wires and not the other, my money would be on a damaged cable rather than a clown installer. Is EOL not available or is the panel too early?

its a 350 the 370 was on-board keypad

He will strip them back to the indivual cores first silly

Probably best they will be able to change setting at the server end which may be all thats required,

Call your installer

shh!

Im not sure that we went off topic? You ask us stuff we ask why, just so that we can find out the best way to reply, we like to know full facts in order to give the best advice. If you asked whats the best detector for my lounge we would ask lots of questions about your lounge

I get all my stuff from Maplin

That's great so what about all the strange and wonderful things that we all know happen but are not in any of the engineers manuals? What about working out how to get a cable from A 2 B aesthetically invisible. There are so many things that I instantly know what the fault is just by the description of the symptoms that any novice would take a week to work out, which is all down to experience. In order to make enough money to survive in this industry you have to find and fix faults quickly and first time, because customers wont pay for you to keep changing stuff until you get it right, which means your boss is paying.

Tricky one, at your age I think that you will find it hard, nobody in this industry seem to be interested in investing in training people, most of the adverts I see on the FB forums are for engineers with three years experience or more. None of them are interested in taking on apprentices, let alone a mature apprentice. The wages for trainees is circa £18K, some much less some a bit more, most mature trainees couldn't survive on the wage. No certificate will help you either, without experience you are an expensive asset, the cert shows you know and understand the rules, but experience shows you know all the things you cant learn in a classroom like the product for example.

Are you going for a career change or are you already working in this industry?