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Going To See A British Gas Alarm.. ??

ranger
in General Security & Fire Queries

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Hey there all,

Ive been asked to come and take a look at a friends alarm this weekend.

They sent me pics in an email and its a british gas alarm (DSC i think.. is that right?)

They have never used it since they moved in, but its all on and they have set off the alarm via a pa button by accident before so it sounds like it is in some sort of working order.

What i wanted to know was how good are these panels? Are they simple to program or use?

Ive told my friend that if its really old or for some reason not worth the hassle i would replace it with a spare galaxy 8 i have here, least that way i would be able to fully program it with programming i am familiar with and can trust.

Regards, Ranger

The above is my personal opinion and not that of my employer or anyone else.
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Good panels, easy to program if you do it all the time, very underated here.

Have different defaults from Dsc and they are the same, its also posible to lock the code.

Look out for wireless detectors on it though.

It WILL be a DSC Power832, apart from that i know absolutely nothing about them

Mark Hawks

Ex BT Openreach Field Service

Now Self employed telecom and data engineer  www.mphtelecom.co.uk 

Also back doing sub contract work in the security industry.

Retained firefighter Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue

My old boss had one when he moved into his new house. Pulled it out and put in new system. Tried to get the old one working on bench but not the easiest of panels (unless you work on them all the time I guess).

The DSC is a top control.

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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Right i see, Thanks for the tips.

Well these are the pictures of what look to be just the keypad for it.


If anyone knows what model this is or any more info i would be greatful biggrin.gif

cheers Guys.

The above is my personal opinion and not that of my employer or anyone else.

Its a rebadged DSC, unless you have the correct BG engineering manual/codes you wont be able to do anything with it.

Power range®

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

PC1515
Ive told my friend that if its really old or for some reason not worth the hassle i would replace it with a spare galaxy 8 i have here, least that way i would be able to fully program it with programming i am familiar with and can trust.
The DSC Power 832 is a better panel than the galaxy 8 :yes:
Are they simple to program or use?

Yes, should take about 5 minutes to fully program one...

Only problem you will have, is BG have their own default eng code in the panel

so unless you know what this is, the panel is no use to you.. ;)

There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.

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