Gent panels do click every so often its a quirk. Doesnt mean anything is wrong

After working on these panela for 10 plus years its become a white noise but its there lol

But its regular as clockwork, every 60 seconds - just ignore it?

Yeah id ignore it.

Loop voltage is over 30 volta on these so i think its a regulator but not 100%.

Never had any issues with one thats clicking every minute

Yeah id ignore it.

Loop voltage is over 30 volta on these so i think its a regulator but not 100%.

Never had any issues with one thats clicking every minute

Good enough for me, thanks

The gent panels are an absolute pig for generating interference on anything near the loop wiring too.

The relays on the loop cards are isolating relays, it's common for these to chatter on older cards, the firmware versions you are running are ancient ( If a vigilon) also the loop resistance being to low can cause issues on gent systems, a resistor won't fool it as the loop also runs rs485 data, try using a long length of cable coiled up just to create a dummy load, the clicking will be part of the fault monitoring pulse put out in the loop but shouldn't be that noticeable

Unit is still in the box, I haven't looked at it since I last posted.

However I'm getting to the point in my house build to decide to use it or not.

Would anyone be able to get me a copy of the firmware?

I'm on V2.56 at the moment

Personally on a domestic, I would stick to simple.

 

I have a 4 zone Fike Twinflex at home and even that is total overkill (although we do have a few outbuildings and an annexe).

5 hours ago, datadiffusion said:

Personally on a domestic, I would stick to simple.

 

I have a 4 zone Fike Twinflex at home and even that is total overkill (although we do have a few outbuildings and an annexe).

Fair point but the whole lot with detectors is here now in a box ready to go, seems a shame to waste it

Plus the Gent nano is a small unit for domestic / small office environments

is it available on the net?

Most addressable panes will click and make noises. It's usually just the panel performing some sort of routine test. 

It could be the panel switching from the loop out to the loop in terminals (it will only use one side at a time even though it's a loop) to check they're still working ok.

 

Unless it's unbearably loud, just make sure everything is working as it should be and ignore it.