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Just now, MrHappy said:

Guess what button I just pressed-

 

Extra sugar?

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Logan it's quite a simple choice;

 

1. Accept that you may occasionally get negative votes

 

Or

 

2. Don't participate in this forum.

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11 minutes ago, james.wilson said:

so europlex/siemans/vanderbilt

 

on that topic you using the new spc cloud?

 

No gave up on them when they started to want 300 quid a year plus had odd problems on a site where cloud worked intermittently for no obvious reason and Vanderbilt never really seemed interested. Shame as excellent product hardware wise. All SPC customers moved to Eaton now, luckily the one that had combined access changed their working practices around the same time to full time receptionist so didn't really need proper access just door open when unset in am...

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Well obviously you can't knock the ease of a built in web browser

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7 minutes ago, MrHappy said:

neither do I....

 

Can you guess whats the coolest alarm shit I've seen all week ( a new to me product seen in print?)

 

You've been posted the new Micromark catalogue?

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2 hours ago, PeterJames said:

LOL

Your not in Hampshre Surrey or London either

 

But I could be for the right money plus private helicopter

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Did I tell you the local branch of Santander has a fire panel with the Mercury Telecom logo on? And I don't mean a sticker, deffo part of the branding of the unit. It's without question the same Mercury that set up to compete with BT (later C+W, now Vodafone).

Did they branch out into FM for one short badly thought out minute?

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2 hours ago, al-yeti said:

I didn't find many with worn out buttons just other faults 

 

Yeah after you put them there you conman

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I am unreliable and not particularly hard working, but you sound desperate?

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3 hours ago, norman said:

He's certainly the git that keeps on giving. 

 

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You promised

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Do you have a multimeter OP?

 

Also send us a picture of your PCB so we can see the exact model (though if it has fuses suspect which one it will be) but good to check.

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Yes indeed...

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2 hours ago, norman said:

Imagine what you could have bought... 

 

He did!

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Nah, a man comes round & you pay by putting coins into a tin!

 

7 hours ago, james.wilson said:

It would of been a ducati but even dd isn't that brave

 

TBF as a consequence to ambulance work over the years I've abandoned any desire to actually get a licence, which I once quite wanted to.

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Have you seen my new motorbike?

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2 hours ago, MrHappy said:

 

You'd be better off begging in a shop door way

 

True some of the guys we come across on the ambo have got bundles of notes hidden away.

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TBF I found the Texecom a great panel, but, with so much progress, updates and extra features since it was first launched almost impossible to program without using a PC.

I can't imagine myself doing it from scratch using the keypad, too many cryptic 'stars underneath acronyms' to indicate options etc... At least the Eaton lets you scroll through

each feature as a Yes/No type option etc... Also even the basic ones could be progged via a browser page on your home network.

 

I don't live near you - I think you may struggle to find someone prepared to work with you in that way, although, good luck!

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Don't get me wrong I did my first few installs for the price of a pint + equipment, but I literally do mean the first few. And even then usually as an add on to my own electrical work at full

price. (Shortly after I mostly worked for the same contractor anyway for a few years.)

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And broke

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Interesting document but pretty much what I expected, do testing in UK as before but get product stamped at next

nearest English speaking EU fweind.

 

Now, off topic....

 

Nah Logan people are just buying Nest / ring / ArgosChinkTat plug-n-pray 'home monitoring' 'solutions' now.

Buy it, plug it in on lounge table

Forget you are paying £2.99 a month for 10 years

Send heartwarming footage of cat / dog / toddler captured by tat 'burgling' that gets 10k retweets c/w brand name of tat

 

I see zero future for someone trying to start a traditional alarm business now unless they are b2b at a corporate level, which

of course you'll not get easily as a OMB new starter now (or then without some serious contacts). And even then Norms tales

of Gunnebo are slightly surprising to me.

 

etc...

 

I don't even see a future for older Yale type products* for much longer. Either that or they will be self-promoted in the field as 'semi-pro alarm kit'

*And nor do Yale - looks like they have just launched a le-sucre like model called 'Sync'.... I wonder if they will simply ditch the 'traditional' range.

 

TBF Can't really blame them, how can you  a £700 CCTV installation complete with wires and a big black

box vs. 2 x £159 wireless Nest cams back to back with nearest 13A socket... I've even seen some new houses with upper floor

USB 13A sockets in slightly odd places I am certain to to allow easy and fairly neat wifi cam installs.

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I would simply change each detector to the default option of 2.2K in series with the tamper and 4.7K across the alarm contact.

That will pretty much future proof the system. It's worth the effort for the little time it will take.

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2.2k + 4.7k = zone active.

 

 

The alarm contacts are usually CLOSED.

 

You need only 2.2k resistors across each zone for closed zone testing purposes, however, this won't make it easy to test opening a zone. I would wire at least one proper contact in for a bench test.

It's better to buy contacts with such resistors built in, it's so much easier and they cost pennies.

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11 hours ago, PeterJames said:

Knackered battery, and probably knackered charging circuit 

 

10 minutes ago, al-yeti said:

Apart from that , it's junk , needs to be replaced 

 

Replace with Euro Mini / 9651 / Texecom etc...

 

47 minutes ago, aissecur said:

If you don't know anything about these alarms with the greatest amount of respect should you (if you are a company) be touching them?

 

Or, tbf, maybe not, as I did think that myself.

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When was it last serviced and battery changed? How long was the power off for?