[Eurosec Cp8L - Replacing Battery Without Eng Code]

OK thanks for help guys, as I don't use the alarm I don't really want to pay a lot to fix something I don't want in the first place! I'll get a few quotes (the original company was a one-man-band and he's retired) and then decide what to do.

[Eurosec Cp8L - Replacing Battery Without Eng Code]

If you cause a tamper the user code will silence the alarm, which should be internal only as the system is unset.

If on engineer reset you will not be able to reset the system with the user code.

So if on engineer reset does that mean I can still silence it with the user code, it's just I won't be able to use the alarm afterwards? Is there any way to tell if it's on engineer reset before I pull the cover?

Also in the manual for the external sounder it says it will stop after 15mins, but it definitely didn't. Maybe because it was on battery power?

[Eurosec Cp8L - Replacing Battery Without Eng Code]

I've got an alarm on my house (installed by previous owners) that I've just ignored up until we got a power cut last night at 2am. You guessed it, as soon as the power went off the alarm started (and went on for over an hour until the power came back on, neighbours must love me...). The keypad was completely dead when the power was out.

 

Anyway it's a eurosec CP8L and a Texcecom Odyssey 3E. I've spent the day researching how to stop it happening again and it seems likely I just need to replace the battery in the control panel. It was last replaced in 2009 according to the receipt from the previous owner.

 

My question is, as I don't have the engineering code (at least I assume it was changed from default) what is going to happen when I remove the cover on the control panel, and what do I need to do then? I've read it's possible the installer configured it so the engineering code is needed to reset tampers, does that mean that the alarm will go on forever until someone enters the engineering code? I definitely DO NOT want that to happen when I open up the control panel!!!

 

BTW I don't have any means to get up high enough to reach the bell box itself (it's well above the upstairs windows, we have a very steep pitched roof), and given that it went on for over an hour I don't think it will switch itself off!

 

Thanks for your help.

Scott