[Castle care tech 1600 alarm keypad fault]

4 minutes ago, PeterJames said:

Whats the age of the battery? Have you tried powering up mains only?

Hi Peter, battery looks to be 2003, yea tried mains only but again same issues, keypad unresponsive.

6 minutes ago, PeterJames said:

Whats the age of the battery? Have you tried powering up mains only?

 

15 minutes ago, sixwheeledbeast said:

I suggest you find a local installer to take a look at it.

It may just require a service and possibly reprogramming but more than likely it will be recommended you replace and upgrade the system.

 

Alternative option is to leave the system powered down and replace all your smoke detectors for stand alone battery ones.

Thanks for the advice re smoke detectors, good idea.

[Castle Tech 1600 power cut problems]

On 22/08/2016 at 16:08, Scott MacLeod said:

Hi,

I have 2 castle care tech 1600 alarms at my property. One is in the garage and we have never used it since moving in. We had a power cut recently and the garage alarm now has a fault condition.

The remote keypad is alarming and is unresponsive. The keypad shows power but the display is blank and keypad does not appear to respond.

I checked the battery, in the control box and it was showing 11V, battery connectors (with battery disconnected) show 13.5V. I have changed the battery and powered up but the fault condition remains. I read elsewhere that the sequence should be: mains then battery then cover which I have followed but no luck. I have checked what fuses I can see on the PCB but all is OK.

I have left the alarm with mains and battery disconnected and all is quiet. I would like to take the opportunity to bring the alarm back into use but cannot get passed the fault condition.

If anyone has any suggestions as to the problem it would be appreciated.

Thanks

Scott

Hi Scott,

 

did you manage to get to the bottom of the problem, mine has just developed the same issue, blank keypad, unresponsive 

 

regards

 

stevie

[Castle care tech 1600 alarm keypad fault]

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[Castle care tech 1600 alarm keypad fault]

Hi folks, 

 

looking for for some guidance, decided to use our house alarm ( moved in 3 years ago already installed) found the operating instructions and detail on how to change code. When I opened the keypad door the number 9 was shown on the display panel, this I think referred to zone 9. When I pushed 9 on the keypad, the house alarm activated and the display panel went blank and wouldn’t accept any further inputs. In order to stop the alarm I had to remove the battery and disconnect mains going into main alarm box. I’m not that fussed about the alarm to be honest but just discovered the fire alarm sensors are connected to it also??? Kids in the house.

 

when I left it fir an hour I reconnected it all back up, same issue, alarms activated, keypad not accepting any codes, though, it did flash d once then nothing..

 

does anyone one have any initial thoughts?

 

many thanks, Stevie