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Hi. On the premier elite 48w there is an option on the control panel that allows you to select either 0.3 or 0.75a charging current. How can I change between the two? It's not a switch on the board and I can't see the option within the 40000 page manual! Also would the unit display a battery fault if I'm yet to connect the bell'sown battery? .

Yes, all answered thanks. I'll go un-switched, as no doubt the wife or someone will knock it off otherwise. As for flex, I'll guess I'll get a short length just to keep it "proper", and anything 0.75mm of greater will do. Ta.

What's a plug? I usually just put bare wires in the sockets.

So people are happy to tell me to avoid Yale at all costs but when I go for something that is more complicated I then get told not to do it, in the diy section of the forum, because I'm not a professional. I chased out all my electric cable runs in my house, laid new cable, wired everything up and then had the leccie do the consumer unit, test and sign off. All was agreed beforehand and he even said I did a better job than most people he knew as I was ultra careful (ie only drilling within specified sections of joists etc instead of one whacking great hole wherever was easiest). I didn't need to have a degree to lay cable in conduit and understand everything electrical beforehand as when u boil it all down its not that difficult. I can wire in a spur and a fcu etc I was just asking what cable u guys use from the fcu to the control panel, that's all. And was asking in the diy forum! i still maintain that my three questions were valid but never mind.

And would u use that???

. I dont see them as worrying questions. You have to find out somehow and someone must have told you at one time! There are no stupid questions, otherwise some people are going to guess and guess wrong. As for cable theres no harm in over-rating but there is in under rating. I guess 1mm flex would be suitable. Ill maybe get a metre specifically for it. I presume you can use alarm cable to the keypad.

Hi, Can I just ask a couple of quick questions please? Obviously you use 2.5mm T&E cable to the FCU which feeds the alarm control panel, but: What cable comes from the FCU to the control panel? If it's going to be plain old 1mm T&E can I use 1.5mm without any probs (I have a load of this!)? Should a 1.5amp or 3amp fuse be used in the FCU? Should the FCU be unswitched? Many thanks in advance.

Ta!

Hi. Sorry I thought you meant the sw corners, if u meant facing south facing then yes that might be the way forward thanks. So are there any rules about rads and windows when I come to place them upstairs?

Hi. The three PIRs are the standard ones I'm afraid. SW corners will be looking toward the windows. I like your idea of above the windows. I was thinking of having one to the right of the window in the alcove. That would cover pretty much everything, including someone coming in from the kitchen, window, or patio doors. I would have one in the extension on the right, but then it would look straight at a rad. I assume people don't put PIRs anywhere but in corners? Look a bit naff sitting in the middle of a room?! Many thanks.

Hi, No doubt this has been asked just a few times before, but I’m wondering – on a generic level – where to put PIRs. I’ve read up a little and people say avoid facing windows, avoid drafts, avoid above radiators, avoid facing radiators, etc. That seems to discount almost all options in my eyes. Imagine a square room with a window on one side and a radiator on any of the other three sides. Two corners will have the window in sight, and all four corners are either going to be facing the radiator or be “above” it almost. Or is all this rubbish nowadays. Does it matter if a PIR is on the same wall as a radiator but is 1+ metre to the side of it (and obviously 1-2 metres above it)? The attached picture is a lovely little rendering of the ground floor of my house It’s south-facing and has a horrible open-plan layout with rads on most walls and a ground floor extension where the patio doors are. The one window is from wall to wall almost. The sun pours in during the summer. The red patches are radiators. Where would you place the PIRs by looking purely at this? I have three at my disposal. I thought of maybe having to have two trigger to set the alarm off if the PIRs will be compromised by the layout? There will be a contact on the front door. I know I should have contacts at the back but I've yet to save up for these (it's wireless texecomm premier elite richocet). I'm going wired upstairs but wireless downstairs. Thanks in advance, and please bear with me!

I know this probably depends on how many times it goes off, but on average how long do you think a X/W Odyssey from Texecomm would last on a set of batteries? Thanks.