Hi Guys,

so the house I moved into 6 months ago has an old alarm fitted, I’ve never bothered arming it because I didn’t know the code.

 

Anyway yesterday I isolated the upstairs lighting circuit to fix a fitting, I’ve done this before a few times but yesterday I went out without turning the circuit back on.

Bizarrely when I flipped the switch back last night the alarm went, it seems to be connected to the upstairs lighting circuit!

 

It’s an Optima XM, apparently.

I've managed to get the thing into test mode and cleared all the zones but the second I turn the power off and on again the alarm sounds.

 

The weird thing is that the attack and tamper lights are not on, only the power light so I don't know was triggering the alarm.  I downloaded the manual and it does not mention anything about this.

 

I have checked all fuses, they seem fine but the battery appears to be dead.

 

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Andy

 

Welcome

 

What exactly would you like help with?

ok are you saying when you turn of the mains the outside or internal bell starts ringing? battery you mean internal battery?

 

Just turn power off and remove the external or internal bell, or get an alarm company into to do it for you, they probably can service it and get it going for you possibly

 

 

PS because battery is dead its quite normal for the bell to ring because the bell still holding power even without power from panel

Hi, I have the same problem. I don't have code from previous owner and I need to somehow reset the code. Any Ideas?  

It is OPTIMA alarm 

Edited July 5, 201411 yr by rmatasovsky@hotmail.com

The factory user 0123 if that dont work and you cant contact the previous owner then phone the installer get them round to default and reprogram it for you, it probably needs a service anyway