optima xm6

[ian cotts]

Hello, can anyone help with advise on this problem,
Local Scout hut I am involved in has just knocked down a stud wall and found cable inside stud so stopped. I had a look and suspect it is the burglar alarm cable. (I removed all the mains cable in the wall before they started to knock down and left them to it). Zone 4 is showing the tamper light on. We have no manual on how to disable this zone. It looks like I will need to rewire this cable as not long enough to reroute and suspect it was damaged during renovations. Anyone got a manual or can give advise I will be extremely grateful. Been house sparks for years but never touch alarms before as never had to so I am competant to carry out work with the correct information / manual.

 

[saxondale]

which county is it in Ian?

 

[joe-90]

Ian, if it's just a damaged cable then simply run your new cable to wherever the old one went and connect it in the panel like-for-like. The existing zone 4 wiring will show you where those connections are. Just make sure you don't short any 12v cable.
To keep it working in the mean time put a small wire loop in zone 4 at the panel and remove the wiring from the global tamper that is associated with zone 4. You should then be able to reset it and use it as normal.

 

[Barsteward]

Hello, can anyone help with advise on this problem,
Local Scout hut I am involved in has just knocked down a stud wall and found cable inside stud so stopped. I had a look and suspect it is the burglar alarm cable. (I removed all the mains cable in the wall before they started to knock down and left them to it). Zone 4 is showing the tamper light on. We have no manual on how to disable this zone. It looks like I will need to rewire this cable as not long enough to reroute and suspect it was damaged during renovations. Anyone got a manual or can give advise I will be extremely grateful. Been house sparks for years but never touch alarms before as never had to so I am competant to carry out work with the correct information / manual.

It shows Z4 tamper, so thats the one you need to short out. As far as i'm aware, it isn't Global.

 

[ian cotts]

Thanks for the replies, to answer 1 point it is in the county of Norfolk UK, I was up there again tonight and managed to disable the zone to allow the alarm to be used again. What cables or part of zone 4 circuit do I need to link to enable use and what is the recommended cable for burglar alarms so I can rewire later? Once again many thanks to all who took the trouble to respond.

 

[joe-90]

An Alarm zone is a loop that goes out to a sensor and back again - so simply link the two zone 4 terminals together with a smaller loop.

I can't remember what sort of tamper it has - but again make a tiny loop out of a bit of wire or if it is global simply remove the cable from the tamper loom.

Just about any electrical wholesaler will sell 4/6 core cable.

 

[securitywarehouse]

the xm has a global tamper so id say its more likly that you have a tamper light on. Ideally you should get in an engineer but as joe said assuming no fuses have been blown ets then a new cable point to point will sort you.

 

[ian cotts]

Thanks for all the replies and tips. Only just got my computer back from shop and not been able to log on for a while. Once again thanks. I will remove the zone cable completely as wall is down. Not sure where to link out, as am I right in saying the reed switch has 2 contacts?