Hi all,
I own a Premier 24 panel and keep getting a intermittent false alarm on the same wired zone. I am currently on nights at work and had a notification on my phone that the alarm has gone off again, seeing as it was gone midnight my neighbours will love me!! I've even got the zone set on double knock and I'm still getting false alarms.
The nuiciance PIR is actually a Risco iwise quad, which I know doesn't matter much, but thought i'd mention it. It is in my kitchen which isn't exactly an harsh environment so I don't think temperature/light changes are the issue.
My plan tomorrow is to test the cable with a multimeter, am I right in thinking I just need to twist the cores together for the alarm and measure the resistance, which sould basically be zero ohms? Just wondering what other tests I can do with the multimeter to try and diagnose my issue.
I have a spare PIR which is a Texecom Premier Dual Tech so if the alarm cable seems okay, I'm going to replace the detector itself.
Just to add, I recently fitted a PIR to my extension and used some of the spare cores from the cable running to the kitchen PIR. The cable was six core, so I wired the kitchen PIR in EOL and changed the setting in the control panel to suit (from NC to EOL). This freed up two spare cores. I then linked the +12v and 0V to the new detector and used the spare cores for the alarm. The new PIR works fine and has given no trouble. Just wondering if I have damaged a wire in the process as I wasn't getting false alarms before. I checked the resistors in the Risco PIR for alarm and tamper (they can be adjusted by moving the jumpers) and seem to be correct for a Texecom panel (4K7 for alarm and 2K2 for tamper).
Any other things I need to check?
Any help much appreciated.
Andy
I own a Premier 24 panel and keep getting a intermittent false alarm on the same wired zone. I am currently on nights at work and had a notification on my phone that the alarm has gone off again, seeing as it was gone midnight my neighbours will love me!! I've even got the zone set on double knock and I'm still getting false alarms.
The nuiciance PIR is actually a Risco iwise quad, which I know doesn't matter much, but thought i'd mention it. It is in my kitchen which isn't exactly an harsh environment so I don't think temperature/light changes are the issue.
My plan tomorrow is to test the cable with a multimeter, am I right in thinking I just need to twist the cores together for the alarm and measure the resistance, which sould basically be zero ohms? Just wondering what other tests I can do with the multimeter to try and diagnose my issue.
I have a spare PIR which is a Texecom Premier Dual Tech so if the alarm cable seems okay, I'm going to replace the detector itself.
Just to add, I recently fitted a PIR to my extension and used some of the spare cores from the cable running to the kitchen PIR. The cable was six core, so I wired the kitchen PIR in EOL and changed the setting in the control panel to suit (from NC to EOL). This freed up two spare cores. I then linked the +12v and 0V to the new detector and used the spare cores for the alarm. The new PIR works fine and has given no trouble. Just wondering if I have damaged a wire in the process as I wasn't getting false alarms before. I checked the resistors in the Risco PIR for alarm and tamper (they can be adjusted by moving the jumpers) and seem to be correct for a Texecom panel (4K7 for alarm and 2K2 for tamper).
Any other things I need to check?
Any help much appreciated.
Andy