Recent content by Racalman

I've bought Honeywell kit from CPC (http://cpc.farnell.com/). Postage is free and there's no minimum order.

Thanks for all your replies guys. Lifting the boards upstairs is not an option as the carpets have been laid and my daughter would have a fit. The cupboard is quite tall so there's room to work in there. I hadn't come across bootlace ferrules. They look neat but I'd have to buy yet another...

My daughter bought an old house and asked me to install an alarm system with all the wiring hidden :roll: . Not too difficult I thought, as she had the builders in and the floors up, so I ran all the cables under the floors and down into a cupboard in the hall. When I came back to fit the...

Yes I've seen that one and it looks reasonable (apart from the key fob but I guess I will just have to accept that as "progress"). Mike

OK, thanks for the info. I'll have a look at that one. Mike

Hi everyone. Years ago I installed an alarm at home using a Racal Rascal control panel. It was too clever for its own good and not very reliable (microprocessors don't like thunderstorms). I replaced it with a Logic 4 - brilliantly simple and totally reliable, until now. The power supply...