Recent content by greenhouse24

A couple of PCB pictures attached. There's no fuse in the speaker socket as I moved it into the bell/strobe fuse, just to check, and didn't replace it in the speaker holder to save it going off next to my head. The red and blue wires for the bell are detached. The blob of blu-tac is holding...

Thanks for the reply. I'm fairly confident it's not tamper, as when the external sounder is disconnected the system all works correctly - ie the internal sounder goes off if I open the case and the spring-loaded button is no longer depressed. I'll grab some photos of the PCB next time I'm in...

I am trying to diagnose a fault on a Honeywell Accenta alarm that's used in a church. A while back the external sounders started going off, although the alarm itself wasn't triggered. The alarm itself and the keypad seem to work fine, it's simply the external sounder that is continually going...

I know there are a lot of threads on here regarding loft condensation - I've already read many of them - but despite improving the ventilation I still encountered problems last winter. The property is a late 80s detached house. A few years back I replaced much of the original loft insulation...

The piece along the horizontal centre of the photo, with a know in the side and on top.

I'm doing some fairly minor work in my loft, adding some solid insulation boards in a poorly insulated area. I want to run 50mm wood at right angles across the existing beams, to allow a double thickness of solid insulation with loft boards on top. I have some pretty cheap untreated wood from a...

Just to say thanks for the advice - a cistern stopper was just the job.

I noticed a leak in the bathroom yesterday from around the toilet and eventually tracked it down to a leak from the cistern. The cistern has two holes in the bottom, one has the water feed in and one is fitted with a rubber bung. The bung had a nut of some form on the bottom to hold it tightly...