Spec me...an alarm system please

Soldato
Joined
14 Nov 2002
Posts
7,711
Location
Under the Hill
an alarm system please.

Budget £150

I want a system with a control box and keypad, an external alarm with strobe, one infra red detector and two window/door sensors. if it has dialing facilities all the better.

I have found a wireless unit by Yale, which seems quite good, however I want something the same but wired into the mains to save on batteries and forgetting to replace them.

Any ideas?
 
Slinwagh said:
Yellow pages, burglar alarms, home security.

Give me strength !!!

I would rather purchase and install myself, so would prefer somewhere online as that will be cheapest. If you have no help to give, save your energy. :rolleyes:
 
Slinwagh said:
Well you can't buy them from OcUK so use the Yell.com
If you dont like the thread the back button is up there just for you, at least this thread could come in useful to other people unlike a lot of the crap people post in GD
 
SpeedFreak said:
an alarm system please.

Budget £150

I want a system with a control box and keypad, an external alarm with strobe, one infra red detector and two window/door sensors. if it has dialing facilities all the better.

I have found a wireless unit by Yale, which seems quite good, however I want something the same but wired into the mains to save on batteries and forgetting to replace them.

Any ideas?

Wireless systems arent worth tha hassle. Install a wired one using a galaxy panel and parts.
 
blitz2163 said:
If you dont like the thread the back button is up there just for you, at least this thread could come in useful to other people unlike a lot of the crap people post in GD

agreed


b+q seem to have cheap alarms if u put 4 box's of extras into the main alarm box


owned
 
R_C_Alarm_Clock.jpg


£4.99 from your local supermarket store probably.
 
Dont start me off on flippin house alarms, moved into a new house last monday and it has a professionally installed alarm in from when it was built a few years ago, the dam thing just goes off randomly on the internal siren and you cant turn it off it just locks itself down, now we find out that you need the engineer code to deactivate the sytem and the only people that have it are the company who installed it and they charge 85 plus vat for a call out!!.

If it were me and i wanted one i wouldnt do it myself they seem massively complex and you cant turn them off as they are hardwired into everything with battery back ups and all sorts, no one seems to pay any attention to them anyway + for hoime insurance dont you need a professionally installed one to qualify for a reduction in premuims?

Maybe get a quote from a local independant and ask what system they would install for a budget install and then try and get the bits yourself.
 
Get a galaxy simple as, nothing on the market really has its features and ease of use.

As for your predicament schnipps, just down power the system if its causing to much hassle, the main panel will house a battery, so disconnect that, as will the ext siren, but you should just be able to leave that to run its cause, as the damm thing should shut up after 20mins and the strobe will keep flashing, eventually the battery will die. You've most likely got a tamper somewhere along the lines. £85 + vat is a reasonable price for an engineer to visit tbh, I work for a large company (not ADT, just taken over by UTC(parent company of chubb)) and they charge well over £150 call out iirc.
 
AS_Platinum said:
Get a galaxy simple as, nothing on the market really has its features and ease of use.

As for your predicament schnipps, just down power the system if its causing to much hassle, the main panel will house a battery, so disconnect that, as will the ext siren, but you should just be able to leave that to run its cause, as the damm thing should shut up after 20mins and the strobe will keep flashing, eventually the battery will die. You've most likely got a tamper somewhere along the lines. £85 + vat is a reasonable price for an engineer to visit tbh, I work for a large company (not ADT, just taken over by UTC(parent company of chubb)) and they charge well over £150 call out iirc.

Hi - Its a Scantronic 9448 and it has a big white box in the kitchen cupboard that i assume has the power in and is likely dangerous to open, where is the battery? Is it in the keypad or in the power box as the tamper alarm goes off if you open either. We also have a panic button in the bedroom that i pressed on day one, i think i need to get a pro out tbh as i havent a clue how to use it and the manual is 2 pages and i still cant fathom it. If you kill the power via the fuse box how long before the battery dies? or can you not do it like that, will the thing go off again if i kill the power?....
 
Its not an acient panel or anything, you'd perhaps do better to get someone in to look at it

Batteries, btw are located in the main panel unit, and in the bell box
 
1st remove the fuse from the fused spur fitted adjacent to the panel, take the lid off, remove one of the leads to the battery, if you only remove the fuse out of the fused spur, the battery will last anything between 1second(if its an old duff battery) or 12hrs(depending on much equipment is on the alarm) i'd suggest just to open the lid as you don't want the battery to last all day then die in the middle of the night and the outside bell going off!.

After you've ditched all the power to the panel, the external bell MAY go off, depending of what bell it is and what trigger it requires, and how old the battery is.

If you do it in that order, you won't recieve a belt.

if you decide to take the ext bell off, be very careful, as it may have a strobe fitted, the capacitor in these creates an enourmous belt.
 
Last edited:
schnipps said:
Dont start me off on flippin house alarms, .........

It wasn't installed by Swift was it. We've had loads of fun and games with them at work.

In the end we just got a local company to take over the system. Swift wouldn't give them the engineers code so they had to reset and reprogram the system.
 
Back
Top Bottom