Hi A neighbours alarm box on the front of their house beeps about every 10 seconds or so and keeps me awake at nights, Im going to call and ask if it can be turned off. What I want to know is if the beeps indicate a fault? I disconnected the power to a box once and that beeped as the battery discharged but not regularly like this one. Thanks in advance
This can happen on these solar powered systems, and is an indication that the battery isn't at full power in the bell box. The internal sounder bleeps when the control panel battery is faulty or weak. What type of system is it?
The only other situation where the external sounder will bleep on a regular timing, is when the system has been activated in alarm condition, and the sounder has been set up to warn of a non full reset by code after the timed cut off period. Is your neighbour at home?
If it's one of the cheap wireless alarms that doesn't have a control panl (works with keyfobs) it might be beeping because it's receiving a low battery signal from one of the sensors (eg PIR or door contact).
If it is a hard wired alarm system, it might also indicate that the bell module and / or support battery contained within the bell box are on the blink.
In a hard wired system, 12 volts are constantly fed to the bell box. The 12 volts charges a battery. The 12 volts also prevents the bell box module from providing power to the bell/sounder.
If the cable to the bell box is cut then the power from the battery is directed to the bell/sounder.
If the relay in the bell module and/or the battery are on the blink then you can have problems with the bell/sounder flicking on for just a moment and then flicking back off.
My parents used to have a hard wired alarm system.
4am one morning the battery / bell module went on the blink. Turning the alarm off made no difference.
We had to get a ladder, climb up, open the bell box and disconnect the bell.
Could also be a problem with the Tamper switch on the Siren or a fault on the cable to the siren or a fault with the control panel all of which can lead to insufficient voltage getting to the SAB unit. Also if the mains has failed to the control panel and the back-up battery in the panel is failing.
There are lots of possibilities that really could do with someone who knows what they are doing to correct.
The idea if the switch in the loft is interesting, it would obviously have to switch off the connection from the siren output to the sounder rather than the power to the siren from the panel. Unfortunately it would be against all British standards and COULD invalidate Insurance.
He means you are top posting, putting the answer before the question!! Convention on Usenet is to bottom post, then threads make sense. M$ broke it BTW with Outhouse express.
Yes Dave I am top posting, as a lot of others on the newsgroups seem to do.
I find it very annoying when working down a list of a thread to have to scroll to the bottom each time. Whereas if its at the top you can just click down the list to see each answer.
Sorry, Nige: it's not 'the newsgroups'. Conventions vary from one to another. MS-specific ones, and in-house ones where Outlook Express is the Company Approved newsgroup reader, tend to adopt the top-posting hit-n-run approach (and leave a massive trail of previous postings handing off the end of each post). A few groups are don't-care.
'Probably most', and this one for absolute definite, adopt the 'classic Usenet' style. This is *not* indiscriminate 'bottom posting': rather, you're expected to put in the effort of snipping (that means deleting) everything you're *not* replying to, and leaving a short, relevant, but unedited fragment to supply the context immediately before, i.e. above, each bit you are replying to. That way, your post makes sense standalone
- important in the greater Usenet, where people receive articles in different orders, less so when all users share a single in-house server
- and the converstation reads like, um, a conversation.
No-one here cares whether you *like* the local convention or not. But you *will* be ignored and/or sworn at if you choose to ignore it in this group. Like walking into any pub, club, or country, you flout local convention at your peril.
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:04:37 GMT,it is alleged that "BIG NIGE" spake thusly in uk.d-i-y:
Excellent idea:-) I have been following this thread but kept out of it because 'top posting' vs 'bottom posting' is one of the canonical examples of a Holy War on usenet:-)
For detailed information on this, Dan Tobias' page at
formatting link
is excellent.
Certainly people who swear and abuse others to try to 'make their point' do nothing to advance that point.
HomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here.
All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.