hi guys

i'm not sure if any one can advise. i bought a dsc power832 with pc5015 and lcd keypad from someone on ebay in 2005 and have only just got around to fitting it. the box itself has "british gas" logo on it. when i bought it (it was new) someone had written an engineers (installers) code(s) on the front of the manual. the codes he gave me were 4377 or 5015 but unfortunatly neither of them work and i'm stuck.

i've contacted the guy who sold it but don't hold out much hope as this was from 2005. my question is, would resetting it to factory defaults also reset the engineers code? if not any suggestions?

thanks in advance

roland

hi guys

i'm not sure if any one can advise. i bought a dsc power832 with pc5015 and lcd keypad from someone on ebay in 2005 and have only just got around to fitting it. the box itself has "british gas" logo on it. when i bought it (it was new) someone had written an engineers (installers) code(s) on the front of the manual. the codes he gave me were 4377 or 5015 but unfortunatly neither of them work and i'm stuck.

i've contacted the guy who sold it but don't hold out much hope as this was from 2005. my question is, would resetting it to factory defaults also reset the engineers code? if not any suggestions?

thanks in advance

roland

Hope you didn't pay over a tenner for it m8

Hope you didn't pay over a tenner for it m8

thanks for the reply

oh dear that don't sound good, yes i payed about

Edited March 12, 200917 yr by rolysatch

thanks for the reply

oh dear that don't sound good, yes i payed about

Was only kiddin about the tenner. Not sure if it will default as it's ex-BG but why not try and see. If not i think it's a scraper.

yeah i know, i'll give it a go and see. thanks again for the advice

HI,

I have installed many of them years ago , great panels i like them!! To reset panel u have to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. I like the night set on those panels, u just have to program your zones what u wanna leave out and then but your code in and if u wount open your final exit zone the panel is in night set but i f u r going out then all your house is set!! Any more questions just ask!

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if it doesn't, does that mean i would have to buy a new keypad or is it the pcb that is locked?

if it is locked the eng code won't reset and you need a new MOBO PCB.

there is equipment available to get the code from the PCB but can't remember if it is worth of buying one in case you only need to default one panel.

if it is locked the eng code won't reset and you need a new MOBO PCB.

there is equipment available to get the code from the PCB but can't remember if it is worth of buying one in case you only need to default one panel.

yes i have found a way to see if it is locked by removing battery and powering down AC and when you power up AC again, if the phone relay starts clicking a lot it is locked. so i will try this later. thanks for the reply.

HI,

I have installed many of them years ago , great panels i like them!! To reset panel u have to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. I like the night set on those panels, u just have to program your zones what u wanna leave out and then but your code in and if u wount open your final exit zone the panel is in night set but i f u r going out then all your house is set!! Any more questions just ask!

thanks marx for the help, yes it seems a very good alarm if i can program it as it has a couple of faults such as phone line not connected, which is correct, but i'm not having it connected by phone, so i need to turn this option off before i can alarm it (amongst a few other things).

regarding the defaulting i know how to do that anyway so will give it a try this afternoon.

thanks again

roland

yes i have found a way to see if it is locked by removing battery and powering down AC and when you power up AC again, if the phone relay starts clicking a lot it is locked. so i will try this later. thanks for the reply.

If you haven't got BG default codes then there is no point in defaulting it, as it will go back to their codes and not DSC's defaults

If you haven't got BG default codes then there is no point in defaulting it, as it will go back to their codes and not DSC's defaults

oh! didn't realise that, that's a pain. the person i bought the alarm off wrote 2 possible engineers codes on the front of the manual, the first being the default engineer code that dsc use 5015, and another which i'm hoping *may* be the defualt BG code for this alarm. but by the sounds of it, i'm not holding out a lot of hope. the master code on the alarm is the default code in the manual 1234 it's just this engineer code and i think your probably correct in that it's not that the engineer code has been changed from the default at a later date, but that the panel just has a different default code specifically for BG.

i did consider plodding through trying all the different possible 4 digit codes but worked out it will take me just under 42 hours lol, so i'll try defaulting it if not it's in the bin.