Blasted burglar alarm

How well do you know your neighbours?

If mine goes off, usually a couple of sets of neighbours come and investigate. Similarly, if someone else's goes off, I go out to investigate. Of course, if you suffer multiple false alarms, then the enthusiasm of the neighbours quickly vanishes. (If you are fitting your own alarm, I suggest you don't connect up the external sounder until you've gone for several months with no false alarms, or you can easily blow any good-will with a few teething problems causing false alarms.)

It looks like it thought right!

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Have you investigated what happened to the power (and to your neighbours)?

Tim

It is only the second time it has had a false alarm in nine years, so the neighbours are not p***ed off, just uninterested. I will have a look at the alarm, the power to the alarm is ok, I think the internal psu has gone tilt.

In article , Broadback writes

Sounds like you've got an old bell box, modern ones will cut off after

These aren't bad:

to about 4 or 5 different alarms. If yours isn't one of those, you have to work out how to connect it up. I did the trial and error testing with the sounder box in the living room buried under all the cushions off the sofas!

CPC has them on special offer from time to time, although probably only about a quid off.

Good Idea about not fitting the alarm until the system is fully tested. Fitted my system in '92, works fine, but I really must make the effort to fit the outside alarm, maybe next summer!

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