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With all the power cuts in Lancashire recently our alarm was sounding off during the night. I pulled wires trying to shut it up & took out fuses but obviously (now) this didn't work. I then put these wires & such back. Or at least i'm 99% sure i did.
Check again & there's 2 blue wires with exposed ends although i don't remember taking any blue wires out at all.
Power came & went, came & went. After a few days the bell box was making noise along the lines of electrical interference. Not enough for the street to hear but if you stood at our front door you could. This eventually stopped. The lights on the PIR sensors inside no longer lit up, the lights on the bell box no longer lit up & the lights on the control panel no longer lit up.
We had been having a lot of work going on in our living room, some of which was an electrician out to wire in new sockets while the floor was up. Old wiring was chopped, old junction boxes taken out as the joists were renewed & new put in place.
The alarm man came out & said there was no power to the alarm. It must be fed off the sockets circuit (which was off) & he can't do anything without power there.
The electrician came out some days later, wired in all the sockets but the alarm never lit up.
Electrician took a look at the wiring & said it's fed off the light circuit, not the socket circuit.
I've also removed the trunking to find that the only wire running up from the floor area is the old telephone extension cable that i snipped. No other wire from down there.
However since the first time the electrician was out, my wife (i simply don't touch electrics) said that something was different. Fuses that used to control some things no longer control them & the whole setup is different (which i will post in the electrics forum after i have tea because it's bamboozled me & i'm going to need to note down all the combinations).
So in short, so far are you able to determine why the alarm is not working / has no power? Or do you need the information from the electrics thread i'll be posting (i'll post in this thread when i've posted that thread)?
Check again & there's 2 blue wires with exposed ends although i don't remember taking any blue wires out at all.
Power came & went, came & went. After a few days the bell box was making noise along the lines of electrical interference. Not enough for the street to hear but if you stood at our front door you could. This eventually stopped. The lights on the PIR sensors inside no longer lit up, the lights on the bell box no longer lit up & the lights on the control panel no longer lit up.
We had been having a lot of work going on in our living room, some of which was an electrician out to wire in new sockets while the floor was up. Old wiring was chopped, old junction boxes taken out as the joists were renewed & new put in place.
The alarm man came out & said there was no power to the alarm. It must be fed off the sockets circuit (which was off) & he can't do anything without power there.
The electrician came out some days later, wired in all the sockets but the alarm never lit up.
Electrician took a look at the wiring & said it's fed off the light circuit, not the socket circuit.
I've also removed the trunking to find that the only wire running up from the floor area is the old telephone extension cable that i snipped. No other wire from down there.
However since the first time the electrician was out, my wife (i simply don't touch electrics) said that something was different. Fuses that used to control some things no longer control them & the whole setup is different (which i will post in the electrics forum after i have tea because it's bamboozled me & i'm going to need to note down all the combinations).
So in short, so far are you able to determine why the alarm is not working / has no power? Or do you need the information from the electrics thread i'll be posting (i'll post in this thread when i've posted that thread)?