Sparkymarka - have replaced the control panel battery and now glorious silence.
Well at least I got my money's worth out of that battery (Challenger AA51 - replaced with AA61 - guy at CEF had never seen an AA51 before !! and he didn't look too young !!).
Folks - thanks for your assistance !
Hoover - yes, disconnecting the bell+strobe unit from the control panel results in the panel speaker behaving properly.
(The bell+strobe 'power tamper' trips and activates the bell).
The AG6 bell+strobe has changed - not very noticeably but now the unit has 2 red LEDs which flash all the...
I installed a Scantronic 500r+ wireless control panel + PIR's probably 15 to 20 years ago. I have a AG6 external bell + strobe unit hard wired.
The system has worked reliably since day one then about a month ago the bell + strobe unit started making more frequent cheeping noises (like very...