Been a while since Ive browsed though this forum, and I have misleadingly prided myself, with the knowledge that I have the technical ability to solve issues that may arise from the various systems that I work on in the field, however b*%$£y  sonitrol,   never worked on one before, new texecom elite going in on behalf of a company I subcontract to, its laced with audio detectors and passives, and want to to remove them ie log em off one by one as the new equipment goes live for that zone, so they keep full coverage, will move monitoring when new is half completed, can sonitrol be programmed from the rkp, or dose it come as a remote upload, any help is greatly appreciated, thx 

You can only program sonitrol stuff from the ARC. It will be a 3250 or a 4250?

Thats a blast form the past. These are made by a company called Advantor and are really slave machines to the ARC. Even when you want to set the system it dials the ARC for permission to form a set.

 

As an engineer they used to drive me nuts as we had to fill our forms and fax it to the ARC and wait ages just to change a zone. They were a bit weird as the microphones were also used as audio detection rather than a traditonal pir. As an ARC operator we heard some funny things from those panels.

I bet lol.

 

But agreed its ARC who set it up.

Had to change a 4250 main PCB once. Got to be one of the easiest panel changes ever, unplug all the zones change the pcb plug zones back on and have a brew while the arc uploaded and tested the system.

Not that much of a blast from the past, they are installed in almost all Oldham MBC buildings, now looked after by Stanley since they got the Sonitrol rights.

Matthew, which arc and how long ago?

thanks for the info, came across these some 12 years ago, with my time at ADT carried spares but never worked on one, had a feeling they were programmed via the ARC gonna make this next install a testing one

Start early, guard it the first night and make sure you got comms before the second night.

We pulled one in Preston a couple of years ago. All hands to the pump and up and running within a day with coms (GD48)