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She used her personal Gmail too
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On 09/09/2022 at 21:11, hunter27 said:
Thanks for your reply.
For a few days running, before the alarm went off we had been experiencing violent thunderstorms in the area, whether that can affect a RCD I do not know. She had an electrician in today to sign off the electrics in the house and he found no problems and gave her a certificate. We have fitted a new panel battery as well as we think the old battery was approximately 9 years old.
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.
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Clouds are fine .....till it rains
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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?
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20 hours ago, al-yeti said:
Lol some.people do that , not witches tho but will remove the nice stuff replace with cheap white read the small print
You know I moved recently, well the vendor tried selling me the carpet, I told him he would be doing me a favor if he took it as it will save me on skips. It was still here when I moved in and is slowly being ripped out
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37 minutes ago, MarkC said:
I'll look at that texecom kit, that is what I installed previously, didn't realise they did a wireless kit which is nice as I could take it with me when we sell.
Along with the light bulbs and switch's
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Makes a change from someone asking why their sounder sounds when theres a power cut.
When you say it doesnt sound on part set, how are you testing it? If you are prt setting the alarm and then coming into the entry route it wont sound. If you set it then go into a room that is not on entry exit route then I would say it should sound. Obvs if you start the entry procedure it wont. get someone to wait in the lounge part set the alarm then get them to move
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3 minutes ago, MrHappy said:
Today (Sunday) I've been installing (empty commercial have keys)
Ive been fitting flushed in led light strips in the master bedroom ensuite
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He could have sold the contracts instead of just shutting down
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Did you not have a hard wired system before? I would have used the existing cables and replaced the hard wired system personally
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He did a few jobs for me down Weston Super Mare way but he was too busy last time I asked him
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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
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13 hours ago, MrHappy said:
would you like the lottery no's too ?
Can you include the bonus ball this time !
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2 hours ago, JonnyB1971 said:
RE: takeovers, can tou not just crash the codes and then remove comms programming? I mean it's not like anybody can do voicemail freaking from an alarm panel...or can they...duu duu duuuuu!
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
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9 hours ago, james.wilson said:
Sounds like it was a takeover without defaulting panel
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
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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
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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.
4 minutes ago, Imnotshankled said:It's not harmful
As long as the switch mode PSU is not some suspicious Chinese supplier it should be fine however they will have another less EMF shielding compared to something like a samsung or apple psu
Maybe it's my workshop to blame?
Tidy!
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1 minute ago, MrHappy said:
proves than marketing works ?
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.
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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)
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52 minutes ago, norman said:
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That's what I could see but lots of T's didnt make any sense
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9 hours ago, MichaelZoolingen said:
There is no wires in the way, the wire from panel and siren have i make a pictures.
I cant see what it says under the grey wire
and I cant see what it says under any of those terminals
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Agreed with the above you could also think about an accredited company, you may get a discount on your insurance.
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Your picture doesnt show what the terminals are ? The wires are in the way
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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.
Risco Agility 3 power down (Decom)
in Guest Forum
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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