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many thanks for all your comments , led me to a few hours trying to research what to replace the wickes branded unit . so many alternatives , and also much time spent in reading fault finding procedures etc . thanks again to all .

Hi Peter , many thanks for the tip regards my old wickes branded rascal super hard wired alarm. It has brought it back to life. Hi James, "But very little with on board keypads most people have remotes now" If you mean having separate hard wired remote keypad. I'm happy to have one of these. Any particular brands/ models you can suggest . Even though control panel is working again, it has caused occasional false alarms always on hot days over the last year or two and I really think its time to retire it. When visually inspecting the pcb yesterday there was signs of overheating on far right side of the board by an onboard small battery and metal heatsink that comes out the back of the pcb . Whether this was part cause of the historical false alarms on hot days, or the unit acting dead after the power cut, I am unable to say

hi. I also have one of these old wickes branded rascal super hard wired alarms that has completely died after a power cut ( mains power to unit still 240v and batter not dead , and neither is on pcb fuse not blown but all lights off and keypad inoperable. Its had a very good innings and wanting advice on whats best to replace it with , are there any hard wired alarms that can also be accessed via the net ?