Hi All,
I appriciate your time to read this.
We have had an optima compact alarm for about 18 years, when the house was built. It was only serviced once after install, so yes the battery was not working etc.
In about 2020/21 the transformer burnt out, we dont set it all the time so didnt realise. This year in april we replaced the transformer, and changed the battery, the battery no longer holds charge, im hoping this is just the battery fuse to change and hoping the resistor has not burnt out !
Anyway, the point of this help page is- i was trying to do a walk test the other day, i could not get it to do a walk test, i managed to test the strobe/sounder and pannel sounder, but in the Manuel it says press 0 and then it also says 5 so its a bit unclear on how to do a walk test. I was messing around a bit trying to work it out. Now about every 5 or 10mins the internal sounder goes beep beep like it is warning me of the battery or idk what? It has done this since i did the "test" yesterday and i will order a new battery fuse to try that. The sounder only gives the warning beep when in day mode so does not to it when armed or in tamper.
If you know why this is please advice. I think it may of realised the battery fault when i try to do test, but remember, i could not test the zones only panel and sounder.
I appriciate your time to read this.
We have had an optima compact alarm for about 18 years, when the house was built. It was only serviced once after install, so yes the battery was not working etc.
In about 2020/21 the transformer burnt out, we dont set it all the time so didnt realise. This year in april we replaced the transformer, and changed the battery, the battery no longer holds charge, im hoping this is just the battery fuse to change and hoping the resistor has not burnt out !
Anyway, the point of this help page is- i was trying to do a walk test the other day, i could not get it to do a walk test, i managed to test the strobe/sounder and pannel sounder, but in the Manuel it says press 0 and then it also says 5 so its a bit unclear on how to do a walk test. I was messing around a bit trying to work it out. Now about every 5 or 10mins the internal sounder goes beep beep like it is warning me of the battery or idk what? It has done this since i did the "test" yesterday and i will order a new battery fuse to try that. The sounder only gives the warning beep when in day mode so does not to it when armed or in tamper.
If you know why this is please advice. I think it may of realised the battery fault when i try to do test, but remember, i could not test the zones only panel and sounder.
The battery fuse is 1.6A anti-surge
