Hi all,

I have a Texecom Premier Elite 48 control panel. Everything (magnetic contacts, PIR's, glass break sensors) so far is working perfectly and I'm just tweaking everything for my liking.

I've now run into a problem with the speaker, in the sense of I've wired in a speaker (SECWARE 16 Ohm Internal Speaker) into the "speaker" section of the control panel board. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to get any sound to come out of it.

 

Does anyone have any ideas? Is there perhaps a setting I need to turn on, or something of that matter?

This includes all sounds - speaker tones - internal sirens - chimes - etc.

 

Any help greatly appreciated!

Many thanks - John

Check volume settings in engineer utils, if that's ok then check the resistance of the speaker, funnily enough it should around 16 ohms, if it's open circuit then you have a duff speaker.

I always thought 16 ohms was the impedance, not the resistance? Surely the resistance will be virtually short?

16 ohms is basically a short, but open is fecked!.

16 Ohm impedance yes but the resistance is not far away from nominal impedance, especially on the end of a piece of cable.

Getting around 14 ohm on a meter would be my first test before taking things apart too.

 

I would check you have terminated them in the correct place on the panel, common apprentice mistake is to mis-terminate the speaker due to the split between the terminal blocks.

Also make sure it is a speaker and not a 12v sounder which would normally contain a small PCB for the tone driver.