House Alarm problem - urgent help please :(

da4i's

Hi lads,
Wondering if you could help me urgently...

Weird noise coming from the censor out the front of the house. Even though i removed the battery and fuses the alarm is still going off. Its not the normal alarm pitch, it seems like some sort of error alarm noise (if you get what im trying to say)

Would anyone know what the problem could be? I thought if i took out the battery surely the alarm would die.

Any help much appreciated,
Dave

mickoneill30

Might be a dead battery. I had a similar problem a few weeks ago. It started beeping by itself and wouldn't turn off. Removing the battery didn't work. Removing the fuse did though. Got a new battery and we're back to normal.

reg_anam

I'm no expert on these but I have come across alarms (bells) with their own standby batteries - this allows the bell to sound when the wires to it have been cut. It probably won't stop until the battery runs out - (assuming the mains connection is disconnected)

10-10-20

reg_anam wrote:

I'm no expert on these but I have come across alarms (bells) with their own standby batteries - this allows the bell to sound when the wires to it have been cut. It probably won't stop until the battery runs out - (assuming the mains connection is disconnected)

Correct, there is a rechargeable cell in the sounder unit designed to last for ~40 mins or so.
If it's sounding without an alarm showing on the panel, you either have a bad connection to the external sounder or maybe the tamper has triggered.

snaps

ive got tamper coming up on the front of mine. Started in the middle of last night (12am). Its showing 05 sitting room tamper? Any idea how to sort this out. Nothing i can seem to do stops this alarm keep going off even though i do not set it, its going off. I dont use alarm so dont want to call any one out to look at it.

Battery99

I'm no expert , but the tamper circuit is basically to stop people 'tampering' with your alarm. Removing the cover of each shock sensor or contact will cause an open circuit and acctivate the tamper alarm. Therefore something must have happened one of the sensors in Zone 5 . Check the covers of the sensors on the sitting room windows and check that the cabling to the senors has'nt been disturbed.

Stoner

snaps wrote:

ive got tamper coming up on the front of mine. Started in the middle of last night (12am). Its showing 05 sitting room tamper? Any idea how to sort this out. Nothing i can seem to do stops this alarm keep going off even though i do not set it, its going off. I dont use alarm so dont want to call any one out to look at it.

If you don't use the alarm the best thing to do is short out the tamper swtiches at the panel, someone would do that for you in about 10 Min
otherwise you could power it down i guess, it does sound like a snagged cable or attempted break in though