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Noted. Thanks. I have had an electrician look at it. He's minimised the load on the board to 30 amps. It turns out that there is a direct connection from another consumer unit MCB to an MCB on this board. He made it safe and we're going to get a full board replacement on Tuesday. Hopefully, that...

Took the cover off because it was very hot, so what you say makes sense. I am pleased to say that your suggestions mirror my thoughts. We were just thinking that we should add a brand new consumer unit that is future capable. Many thanks for taking the time to reply.

We were woken at 0230 last night with the smoke alarm going off. Nasty smell of burning rubber and the consumer unit smoking. We have not been in this house for long and are going to do some building work in the summer which will include complete re-wiring, but I need a stop gap. I am going to...

Initially, yes. But I gave up on it because I kept getting charged fur each call the unit made. I gave up on it just after I fitted the alarm. I guess nowadays this would work through WiFi but then it was phone line.

Morning all, I put in the alarm unit about 15 years ago ish, time flies and until recently it seemed fine. Had a battery charge error, replaced the battery and (touch wood) that's gone away. I have lived all this time ignoring a constant ATS failure error message, but now we are about to...

Can someone update the last message please. The #&******, must refer to keys but at monitor hardwares i just PCBALB or similar and i can't work out what to press to get rid of the ATS fault error message permanently.

There is in all probability an easy fix to this. This leak (bottom left/right of the window rather than the frame), does not happen on steeper pitched rooves, it starts to appear when the pitch is approaching the minimum recommendation. On the frame, at the top of the window are two flashings...

Thanks, I will take a spur off the ring main instead.

I am fitting an extractor fan, with an led light and vented with an inline fan that dumps through the soffit. It requires a circuit breaker with a 3mm gap. My question is: does this relate to the RCD in the consumer unit or its it simply meaning that it needs to be connected via a switched spur...

yes, i got the one you mentioned and have wired it into the phone line between the com2400 and the master socket. The master socket end is just a phone plug into a splitter, but that goes into another filter, which is the probable problem. If I wire the alarm into the terminals behind the master...

Brilliant, that did it. The system will arm and disarm now, just coming up with ATS failure. That will have to stay until I can sort the BT master socket. It seems I can either have broadband internet or a working com2400! Thanks very much once again for your help. I really appreciate it. :D

Hello again, I have tried exactly what you have suggested. Enter engineer code, press reset, says 'do you want to log off', so I say 'yes'. Keypad still shows 'system alerts', and when I try to arm, it comes up with 'do I want to arm with faults', I say 'yes' but then it does not arm. I can't...

My wife set the alarm off by entering the garage before disarming, to visit the freezer. I cannot seem to reset it, it just says system alerts. I have entered my user code as master then pressed reset when asked if I want to arm with faults and done the same with engineer code. Both to no...

Alarm has (apart from the SMS messaging!), been working fine all week. I think, for now, that I will stop fiddling with it. So, to end this thread I would like to offer my heartfelt thanks to Sparkymarka, you really helped and I am very grateful. I definitely owe you a pint!

The phone line does go into a filter but I think it might need a dedicated alarm line from BT. We lose internet even if a single phone goes into the socket, broadband is rubbish here. I am not sure what else to try with that. In Area Timers and Options, entry/exit set to exit delay 30...

I think I am almost there. Smoke alarm was set as closed, but somehow some parameters reset to options I had not put in. Three users went from standard or master to custom. Anyway sorted. Arming and disarming by tag, all walk tests are fine. Only niggle is that the exit and entry time is about...

Getting too late now! All went exactly as you said until I tried to add a prox tag to my own user. I had taken over the user 01 master, it seems that 01 won't accept a prox tag, I returned that to master and set myself up as 06, but when I tried to set up the tag, the smoke alarm went off...

Right, I will have a go. :D

Wow, all error messages gone and I can now get into the programming menu. Thanks!!! Can you programme tags from wintex? I could not see a menu and was going to go through the keypad.

OK all those were checked. I have cleared the boxes and will now update the control panel and try again. I have copied the backup, in case, can't see an email on your profile. I'll have a go at this first.