Hi,

Hopefully someone can give me a steer on this.

I've just bought a house with an ADT galaxy alarm panel (think its an 8 or 8+), it has not been serviced since 2001!!!. When i try to set it i get "power failure setting aborted".

Reading through other posts I have now checked and replaced the battery and also checked the three fuses, which are fine.

The mains power seems fine and the transformer seems to be working. The green light on the control panel is solid green.

Any ideas? further info required?

Thanks in advance

If all power and fuses ok then try down powering the system Mains and battery and then repower it.

Try during daylight hours as outside sounder will ring.

If you have changed the battery then check its charge etc

I have had my Volvo since 2001 and never had it serviced or checked, it stopped working today after 100k miles i wonder why ?????

let it to JW & he pranged a wall with it ?

KWC

Thanks i'll give that a try today.

Whistle

Not sure i can take the blame for previous owners lack of servicing............ Thanks for your help.

If i can get it to work i'll use it, if not i'll rip it all out and buy something else. I'm not hearing good things about ADT

let it to JW & he pranged a wall with it ?

ta

OP i would say its a fuse. But if the battery was very bad it may have damaged the charging circuit. As such its a new board

All three fuses seem o.k. (<1R when checked using DMM). I've removed all of the power (battery and mains) as a reset and still have the same problem.

Does anyone know what these three fuses feed? A previous post seemed to say that the alarm checks the battery condition before setting, does it check for power at the bell box or internal sounder as well. I wonder if i should try and check for power at those?

Thanks for your help so far,

no it wont be checking the bell.

There is an option called 'stop set' on those panels and if it has a fault it wont let you set it till its rectified. This is opbviously a good idea and it also forces people to fix it rather than leave it when it isnt functioning properly.

Its to do with ther power so either battery or mains input etc.

Is the green keypad light on steady all the time or does it slow or fast flash?

Id check the battery charging voltage and current and the voltage going into the main pcb from the transformer.

I dont suppose this has an additional PSU anywhere on it does it?