Alarm! Alarm!

dahamsta

Anyone know how to disable one of these stupid things?

http://beecher.org/media/v/things/alarm.html

The battery is going in it so it's chirping at me every two minutes or so and it's driving me nuts. It just goes off if I try to take the cover off.

Is the fuse below it connected possibly? And if it is, will it just go off if I try to remove it anyway?

adam

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Call the company. Their phone number should be written on the box. it should only take then 10 mins to come out.

I could tell you how to disable it, but they[security] will come out anyway.

dahamsta

I'm not their client, the letting agent is. (Strictly speaking it's a miscommunication problem about replacement of the batteries in the box, and I just couldn't be bothered getting into the minutae of it all.) I've already asked them to sort it out, I'm just trying to figure out a way to get it to stfu while I'm waiting.

Dimitri

Lump hammer. Problem solved.

seamus

There's a box on the outside of the building with a battery in it. Remove the battery. There's another battery somewhere, usually in the attic, remove it. Remove the third battery from the box in the house, and remove the mains power. Should shut off then. Probably won't. The alarm will go off once you disconnect any of the batteries and/or the mains. Most alarms are designed to cope with a good bit of tampering before they die. For example, the box outside may have it's own mains connection, and the alarm inside will continue to go off until the outside box is reconnected.

Much easier solution - buy a new battery for the box in the house, open the cover, put up with the alarm going off while you replace the battery, close the cover, reset alarm.

dahamsta

Can't open it seamus, don't have access. And I think it's self-contained, with everything else being wireless. I stuck a towel over it, but I can see it being like chinese water torture during the night.

Slutmonkey57b

There's always the heroes option - suicide.

dahamsta

Left me katana on the bus.

Capt'n Midnight

or expanding foam - for filling cracks n' stuff

funk-you

stick a lump of blu-tac over the speaker, it'll drown out the noise for you.
you could also load a secondary power souce bypassing the battery directly to the alarm but you'd need some electronics experience to do it. you'd basically be replacing the battery with your own power source.

TCamen

The thread title made me think of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Red Alert

Usually 2 batteries:

1 is in the control box which powers the alarm when it's not connected to the mains.

another is in the external bell (technically it's called an SAB or SCB box in the trade). this one activates the alarm if the bell loses it's loop to the control box and probably if the control box loses power. (plenty of alarms go off in a power cut because the internal box's battery is dead but the bell's one isn't).

how long has this been going on - that would point to whether the battery or the mains and charger at fault?

dahamsta

No exteral bell, this is just a bog-standard, cheapass, piece of sh*t, internal alarm. I'm pretty sure the photo shows this. I was just hoping someone might recognise the model from the photo and know how I could stop it beeping without the lump hammer. Looks like not, so ta anyway all.