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Repeated false alarms on Veritas 8 system

theGman
in Control Panels (Public)

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Hi,

One of my PIR sensors is giving a false alarm whenever set to "FULL" on a Texecom Veritas 8 system. I've taken the cover off to make sure there was nothing inside the PIR setting off the alarm. Could this be a faulty sensor? Can I disable the PIR until the sensor can be replaced so that I can still use the rest of the alarm system. TIA.

You could omit the circuit

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Does it sound as though it could be a faulty PIR?

could be sensor, environment, cable or panel.

Your question is basically, my car wont start what do you think it is?

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Ok, I guess I'll get a new PIR as the rest of system works fine the false alarm only started  2 days ago. If I do a walk test the sensor activates ok, but today after setting alarm and laeving the house the same false alarm happened within about 20 seconds.

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46 minutes ago, james.wilson said:

could be sensor, environment, cable or panel.

Your question is basically, my car wont start what do you think it is?

James, I see that the veritas 8 has an engineer hold off mode, could I swap the PIR thats giving me the false alarm with one of my good ones to diagnose it? How is the hold off activated? Thanks,

I dont know Texecom gear, but yes swapping the sensor with a known one is a good idea

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    3 hours ago, theGman said:

    James, I see that the veritas 8 has an engineer hold off mode, could I swap the PIR thats giving me the false alarm with one of my good ones to diagnose it? How is the hold off activated? Thanks,

    Yes , you don't have to use engineer hold off though , be careful with the power connections tape them to be safe and take a picture of how it was wired

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    3 minutes ago, al-yeti said:

    Yes , you don't have to use engineer hold off though , be careful with the power connections tape them to be safe and take a picture of how it was wired

    Thanks, do I need to power down the alarm before changing the the PIR?

     

    31 minutes ago, theGman said:

    Thanks, do I need to power down the alarm before changing the the PIR?

     

    What pirs are they, picture? If it's possible you could remove the power tape them up and then swap boards over etc

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