Recent content by cpm25

wow thats crazy i am a bit out the game now ten years since i was an engineer, whats the reasoning behind that??

The main reason is that the stobe is there to give you visual indication there has been an alarm activation, ie the strobe will continue to flash after the bell has timed out, until the panel is reset by user, i would like to know while approaching the house there has been an activation to be...

there are sometimes more parts than required especially if bought from b&q because the waste kits are not sink specific ie universal, if you take a pic of the section your trying to assemble i will tell you the order

glad its sorted not ideal but at least it works

no risk and will give you strobe activation when bell ringing.

from what i can gather the strobe is active even fully reset and in day mode, so can only assume his panel kicks out -ve for stobe and +ve kicks into activate it, although if an optima i thought they were neg trigger for strobe

he has neg output all the time so cant be same panel.

this panel must activate +ve upon strobe activation and - ve must be permanant hence when wired up to new bell box strobe flashes continuously. i can only think adding a relay or connecting strobe to bell -ve although not ideal

was there a facility to have -ve strobe activation on these.??

that means that the strobe give 12v from the panel to activate must be a quite old panel, other than putting a relay in, you may not have a choice then to link it with neg bell output, some panels you can alter the programming but with out knowing for sure what panel it is i can t confirm this...

i have done it many times not ideal but never caused a prob for me.

you can post it on here and delete when finished

think its an accenta g3, can you take a pic of keypad to confirm, i will have a manual for that if thats the panel.

sounds like an old panel, i will see if i have a manual for it, it will prob be programed as +ve for strobe activation, all modern bell boxes are -ve strobe trigger, you could attach strobe -ve to -ve for bell, that means the strobe will flash when bell ringing. if i find a manual i will look...

what panel is it?