Hello guys

Father-in-law wants me to wire in an extra PIR to the spare/last available zone on his panel. His siren I think has a hold off facility, looks like its got a Flashguard module inside (from looking at it from the ground 20 foot away). Would anyone correct me if Im wrong, been a couple of years since I installed one, you ground the strobe wire 3 times to enter the sounder into hold off mode? It then stays like that for 15 minutes to gain access to its battery?

I want to go down this route to avoid unwanted noise, because I will have to pull the panel from the wall to poke the zone cable down into the panel..Would anyone know the make and model of the housing so I could find some instructions about it?

Best Regards to you all at this festive oppotunity for the previous help

Alistair Echlin

That's a Texecom Odyssey 1. You activate the strobe three times, which puts it into engineer hold-off mode. I'm not sure how long this lasts, but I do remember that the LED's flash twice as fast if it is in hold-off mode. It might be a better idea to connect the hold off terminals to the panel back up battery while you remove the panel, as I think the hold-off mode only stops the siren sounding on bell tamper, so you can change the bell box battery etc. It may activate when you completely remove the hold off supply to the bell, regardless of the engineer hold off mode. You can get a manual from Texecom.

Edited December 17, 200421 yr by antinode

I think the Texecom eng. hold off is 15 minutes. I've got a spare set of battery leads with a length of alarm cable attached for doing this, you can put the battery on the floor then out of the way when changing panels etc... without having to put the siren into eng. mode

The wee ginger boy is 100% right..

Of course, it's all coming back to me now! I haven't fitted a Texecom box for about 3 years.

Cant understand why u would need to down power panel to add aditional zone??

can u not losen the panel of slighty to get your cable down the back,

not as if its a 100mm sub main

Chris

Many thanks for the advice. Im on the edge of caution really, adding the extra zone is easy, only need to slacken the panel about half an inch and program the zone in, but obviously what I dont want is the siren going off and being a nuisance. So then, all I will do is remove the trigger wire to the bell, ground the strobe 3 times and basicly lengthen the battery cables.

Is that the kind of way you Pro's would look at it?

one again

Alistair

Just one more question, what action would I need to take to bring the bell out of eng hold off?

Like to download a manual from the Gardtec website, but Im not trade....bugger.

Yuletide Falicitations to you all

Alistair

Thats fantastic Monteey, thank you all for your good advice.

Best Regards

Alistair

Alistair, its texecom not gardtec. Try texe.com