Hi all,
I'm not an expert in alarm system and I inherited the above in the house we bought 2 years ago. It has been mostly problem free until recently. It tends to set itself off when there's a power cut, and when it started beeping I swapped the battery. Still goes off in power cut but at least I got rid of the beeps.
Last week we had another powercut and the alarm panel when out at the same time. The alarm went off until it finally timed-out, and things kind of got back to normal when power returned. Yesterday the panel died altogether (without powercut) while I was out and the wife had no idea how to fix it. Again the siren timed out eventually.
I opened the alarm box this morning and diagnosed it as a burnt fuse. Nothing else appeared broken. When I reconnect the power everything was running, but I can hear a lot of buzzing from the transformer. I managed to tighten the screws to it and but the fuse eventually burnt out a couple of minutes after restart.
I doubt it's the transformer. Even if it is, it's probably cheaper to change the whole box, rather than the transformer. I can't see any other parts that's easily replaceable.
I have had a look at the manual. I think, and do correct me if I'm wrong, that if I were to change brand, my only limiting factor is the number of wires running between the keypad and the box. I am assuming all the PIR (only have PIR with the alarm) are standardised in terms of wiring, and the siren is also interchangeable. The Veritas 8 keypads uses 4 wires, and I doubt whoever installed it many years ago would have used anything other than 4 strands. Which other system would I be able to do a "direct swap" with if I were to change make? I found one call Castle Care Tech Euro Mini which uses 4 wires. I note that the Honeywell ADE G4 uses 6 wires. Is there any others out there that use 4?
Any other advice gratefully received. Thanks.
Adrian
I'm not an expert in alarm system and I inherited the above in the house we bought 2 years ago. It has been mostly problem free until recently. It tends to set itself off when there's a power cut, and when it started beeping I swapped the battery. Still goes off in power cut but at least I got rid of the beeps.
Last week we had another powercut and the alarm panel when out at the same time. The alarm went off until it finally timed-out, and things kind of got back to normal when power returned. Yesterday the panel died altogether (without powercut) while I was out and the wife had no idea how to fix it. Again the siren timed out eventually.
I opened the alarm box this morning and diagnosed it as a burnt fuse. Nothing else appeared broken. When I reconnect the power everything was running, but I can hear a lot of buzzing from the transformer. I managed to tighten the screws to it and but the fuse eventually burnt out a couple of minutes after restart.
I doubt it's the transformer. Even if it is, it's probably cheaper to change the whole box, rather than the transformer. I can't see any other parts that's easily replaceable.
I have had a look at the manual. I think, and do correct me if I'm wrong, that if I were to change brand, my only limiting factor is the number of wires running between the keypad and the box. I am assuming all the PIR (only have PIR with the alarm) are standardised in terms of wiring, and the siren is also interchangeable. The Veritas 8 keypads uses 4 wires, and I doubt whoever installed it many years ago would have used anything other than 4 strands. Which other system would I be able to do a "direct swap" with if I were to change make? I found one call Castle Care Tech Euro Mini which uses 4 wires. I note that the Honeywell ADE G4 uses 6 wires. Is there any others out there that use 4?
Any other advice gratefully received. Thanks.
Adrian
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