Disconnecting a Texecom sounder for 2 weeks. Turn alarm off as well?

Hi,

I am after advice. I have to disconnect my external sounder and leave it disconnected for about two weeks.

I am ok with the alarm being out of action, so I am thinking that after I have removed the sounder, I will turn the panel off, but will that cause me any problems when I come to bringing it back to life? Will it lose its settings?

I have a premier elite 48 panel and a premier odyssey sounder. I did install it, but that was 12 yrs ago and I haven’t needed to touch it since and forgotten a lot of what I knew then, so I have asked Google and it suggested these steps, does this sound right?

1. Enter Engineer Mode
2. Enable Hold-Off Mode: Navigate to the menu option to test the strobe light, or manually toggle the strobe three times to put the sounder into Hold-Off mode, preventing the tamper switch from triggering the alarm.
3. Remove the Sounder Cover. Disconnect Battery and Wiring: Disconnect the sounder’s internal battery, then disconnect the wired connections (usually +12V, 0V, Bell, Tamper).
4. Remove from Wall

Then open the panel, disconnect the battery and isolate the power to the panel?

I have still have an old version of Wintex and have just connected and, I think, made a backup of the settings by going to Accounts – Backup Account Data. Does that sound right?

Does what I am thinking make sense or would you do it differently?

Thanks in advance for any help.



Pat

I would do steps 1 - 4
Open panel remove 12 + to bell
Put a link between 0v and tamper return
Exit engineering ….

I would disconnect the +ve core to the sounder at the panel before doing any work on the sounder itself.
If you program the system to not monitor bell tamper-or short -ve to TR, you can leave the system powered up.