External Sounder Battery

[dal5band]

In Spain, there are a few Veritas R8 alarms fitted down our street and what with various power cuts and old batteries in the panel, sometimes the external sounder goes off - usually in the middle of the night !!
Is is advisable to remove the batteries from the external sounder ? and will it still work ?

PS the houses are often empty (holiday homes) and the mains may fail due to RCD trip, or being cut-off due to none payment !! e.g. the mains fails or is cut-off during the day, alarm runs on battery for a few hours then in the middle of the night the external sounder goes off.

 

[Steve]

Do they have noise nuisance dept in the local council? as here? I'm sure they'd love to hear of your tale.

 

[dal5band]

I think they do - the more recent systems have a 15 min time out on the siren.
The alarm engineers (Brits) charge about €65 plus cost of battery to come out and put a new battery in.