i-ON 40 burglar alarm battery replacement

[Volvos60s60]

Hi,I am finding that my i-ON 40 burglar alarm is going off randomly (in the middle of the night of course. I only have the user code & not the engineer code. As the battery is a few years old I thought I'd replace it, and then if that does not fix it I'd check the sensors for insects, etc. Can all this be achieved with just the user code (I don't mind if it sounds when I remove the tamper front panel as long as the user code will reset the system after). Any advice will be most appreciated

 

[sparkymarka]

What does it say on the keypad when it goes off ?

 

[Volvos60s60]

Hi, thanks for posting. Unfortunately at 3am last night I just wanted to turn it off and was too bleary eyed to read the description on the panel. Same happened an hour later at 4am. I would have to wait for it to happen again to answer your very relevant question though and I don't really want to set it tonight & upset the household and neighbours again. Given the battery is a couple of years old I thought it might be a likely culprit

 

[AmzWag]

Recently my house alarm was randomly going off in the night. It ended up being the front door reed magnet contact. For a couple of weeks I refused to set the alarm in case of waking up the whole street as it was going off in part, night and full set. Checking the resistance of the contact may be troublesome if you don't have the engineer code.

Does your alarm sound like someone has opened the front door and it is counting down for unset? This is what mine was doing.

 

[Volvos60s60]

Hi AmzWag, I can't really answer that as I was asleep & awoken by the alarm in full shreik mode!

 

[sparkymarka]

Alarm panels have logs ....try reading the log before you go any further

 

[Volvos60s60]

Hi, the log says Burg Z02 Alarm when it went off on both instances

 

[sparkymarka]

So zone 2 is the issue start there!

 

[Volvos60s60]

I don't know which sensor is Zone 2 though. If I undo each sensor cover in turn, Zone 2 will become apparant on the control panel I guess. Will just have to hope that the user code will permit reset. Then I suppose replacing the faulty sensor would be appropriate, unless there is something obvious like a spider or dead fly on it.

 

[sparkymarka]

Put it in walk test

 

[Volvos60s60]

Thanks Sparkymarka, using the walk test as you suggested, I have established Zone 2 is the hallway. I guess that means I should open up the sensor & if no obvious reason for failure I should perhaps change the sensor. Is that a straight change out or do I need an engineers code to set it up?

 

[sparkymarka]

It MAY be programmed for engineer reset in tamper ....your not going to know untill you take that pir lid off , it MAY also be programmed for engineer reset for control panel tamper so it's the risk your going to have to make , go for the pir lid first...

 

[sparkymarka]

 

[sparkymarka]

That is only the default settings !

 

[Volvos60s60]

Thanks for all your help, Sparkymania, I'll check out the PIR today as a start point