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He's one ive not thought about before............is it required, wise or not necesary to replace smoke alarms and Carbon Monoxide alarms after a fire in which they have suffered no heat damage but being smoke and sut damaged?

The neutral will be ok from the sounds of your description. Id be a bit more concerned with the fusing/protection for the elements and the motor. Surely its not relying solely on the TP 16A mcb?

What do you mean by '3 seperate 230v circuits' and what type of machine? (Bit better description required). The SWA should carry the current subject to refernce method and a few other considerations but generally, 1.5mm SWA with a 16A protection is fine. Im just a little confused with the...

Cheers for that lads. I can up my budget a little if need be.........been looking at the difference between DNR and NVR, not sure i need NVR but i see the sense in going for it. Sparkymarka, where are you seeing turbo dvr's for £60 ish? ones im seeing are for £110-180 before you add the...

Cheers guys. Hikvision seems to have a good reputation on the forums so looks the kit to go to. Take it all this gear you can view via apps on your phone and stuff. Can anyone give me a brief laymans explanation of the difference between a normal CCTV setup you can buy from screwfix/argos etc...

Am after a CCTV kit and wondered if anyone had any kit recommendations. I dont want to pay the earth at the minute so am shopping in the £300 ish range. I would like 3 camera's with a DVR that i can hookup to a tv or monitor. Nightvision obviously required and as good a picture as money can...

thanks handmanjo, will try the chime thing tomorrow....i thought it just gave out a different tone on the chimes............whats chime 3? I have iphone so may try the comwifi. Any idea on the keypad backlight mate?

Update guys, picked up a resistance between green strobe trig and blue bell trig on the cable to the sounder. Disconnected both ends and then did an IR test, dead short! Inspected entire run apart from a 2 metre piece that runs behind some plasterboard and no visual damage! So ended up...

Thanks again guys, really appreciatte the input and i will be sure to report back tomorrow when ive investigated the bell trig further

I am away from the property now but will be investigating further tomorrow so will report back. For information i didnt disconnect the strob trigger but the strob was flashing with the sounder. I will report back in the morning but apart from that, all seemed well...... One further question...

Something weird going on handymanjo.....i have the wire out of the bell terminal in the panel yet the outside sounder still rings when i trigger an alarm.......

Struggling with photo on this phone. I have red 12v, blue bell, yellow tamp, black 0v and green strobe......same at sounder and panel end. Log out of engineer mode with blue disconnected at panel and when i do a user set bell still sounds when i trigger a PIR

probably go the comm2400. Programming gone ok, seems to be doing everything i want apart from a couple of little tweaks. Apart from the external sounder rings when i test trigger the alarm even with the bell wire pulled out of the panel.........i have also tried to change the bell delay...

phew!!! Thought so as it would be a bit nonsensical if not. I will be looking to get a communicator but i havent got a phone line set up yet so its not been a priority. Which one would you guys recommend. Basically i would like the notifications of alarm and also the ability to set and unset it...

Errrr, ill be honest Jo, i havent got around to a communicator yet..............dont tell me i need one before i can program using the wintex? you may have guessed but im an alarm novice!

Hi again Jo Good tips with the bell trig and strobe trig wires, will save the neighbours getting annoyed with me! Yes the piezo covers inside the bell box...........i take it they are to protect from the elements a little and should be left in place?? The sounder is the Odssey 3 twin piezo...

Evening chaps Few of you hacve helped me out with install of a Prem 24 and finally all the hard wiring is done (work and xmas has been getting in the way of my DIY). Im at the stage tomorrow where i will be powering the panel up........i have already done the program on the laptop so will it...

Ill have a look at them geronimo. Was thinking solder because i have all the stuff ready to crack on tomorrow. Pardon my stupidity, read the instructions too quickly that came with the PIR's and misread in my head as 2.2ohm and 4.7ohm.........been a long day, all day pulling cables and stuff...

Bit more advice would be welcome if any of you chaps have much experience with this...... Been running new alarm cables today but there are a couple of places what are very tricky as the original cabling was put in at the first fix stage of building by the looks of it. It would be great...

Have you tried Recon Electrical chesterfield or SRS electrical in worksop? Ive had old breakers from these before and they seem knowledgable aswell.