Any ideas on this? (Banham Alarm - Panic Button)

[Bes]

Hi

My house has a panic button in the main bedroom (Wired to a Banham alarm system). It all works perfectly/ is serviced by Banham, but we are reconfiguring the room, and as a result, the panic alarm sits right over the edge of a wardrobe I am planning on attaching to the wall.

If I remove the cover, as per the pic, the remains of the panic button protrude into the room by less than the skirting, so its all fine.

The issue is that the system detects a fault when the cover is removed. I am assuming the removal of screws on the reverse of the cover are causing a circuit to be broken? I don't want to start shorting wires together in case I damage the system, but does anyone have any idea on how I trick the system into thinking the cover is still on? I am pretty sure Banham are going to charge me rather a lot to fix this up for me. I am assuming the top 2 contacts on the box on the wall are what are shorted together by the screws?



Thanks!

 

[RoyMi6]

Looks like a magnetic reed switch on the right of the box still attached to the wall.

The box itself looks to have a magnet on the left-hand side of the pic (obviously to the right when you flip it over)

It looks like shorting these two wires will bypass the switch. Or just put a magnet on the reed switch itself.

EDIT: Thinking about it I suppose it might work either way. Either the magnet is keeping it closed or it keeps it open. From the red mechanism in the top section it looks like pushing the red bit down might move the magnet away or nearer - hard to tell.

EDIT2: Wait, is one of the wires from the resistor going to the yellow wire screw on the bottom right? I think it is. As such, I'd imagine that there's already a loop in the circuit there - so the magnetic reed switch must short out the circuit and reduce the resistance when closed. Signaling the system one way or the other.

Depends on how savvy you electrical testing is to solve this, but why not just move the box? Two screws holding it to the wall. Just rip it out and put it somewhere hidden.

 

[Russinating]

As per above, can you just move it? The cable is even tacked on externally so you can go as far back to its point of entry as you want.