Recent content by PaulCheshire

Thanks - that might help but only if I change the zone as the kitchen/stairs PIR is zone 3! It's an odd layout (an old Victorian terrace which has had the ground floor opened up). I hate to put right someone else's botched up installation - I usually replace the panel and relocate any PIRs as...

Denford 1 - thanks - I just found an early manual for the Optima and as you rightly say, 5 IS the walk test and not 6! Clearly when I had thought I was testing the high volume sounder by pressing 5, I had actually entered walk test and had triggered the zone near the panel and when I thought I...

Joe-90 I agree with you totallly and it only was when I tried to change a zone from instant to timed (so she could set the alarm at night) that I discovered that the walk test wasn't working. I cannot omit that particular zone as it would mean that the kitchen would be vulnerable. I can easily...

And all the detectors ARE functioning - as I said in my original posting I set it and triggered an alarm with each zone. It would seem that the alarm is fine but for some reason either I am not accessing the walk test (odd that it tests Strobe, Bell, Low Volume & High Volume) as you say or there...

Odd that I may not be putting it into walk test - especially as I access it from all other tests (which all work) - but I will try again.

Joe 90 - not sure - I will check today. Denford1 - thanks for that - I was not aware - I assumed that all Optimas were zone attribute programmable. I have advised a new panel anyway but would appreciate any ideas as to why no zone lights are active on walk test yet they do all light when...

Help! A friend has just moved into a new house (rented) and there is an Optima Compact (6 zone) alarm panel fitted which works perfectly well each time she sets it. Having installed many alarm systems over the last 30 years I decided to check hers over for her but when I did the walk test, NONE...