DIY Install: Wireless & Wired Alarm Questions
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Mmmmm didn't some one buy this last week and end up with solid core cable ?
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Doggit
I'm going to throw my tuppence worth in, even though I'm nowhere as good as the others posting here, but having installed a couple of accenta and scantronic alarms, if you're going to hard wire the bell - which I found the trickiest part - then you might as well go for broke, and do the sensors as well. Now I know someone is going to critisise the Accenta as being a basic alarm, but if you fit vibration sensors on the windows and doors, it does the job of being a deterrent, and the alarm will go off before the idiots have got inside
Alarm peripherals are fairly straight forward in design, so if you run 8 core cable around the skirting boards, then you've got 2 cores to power the item, 2 cores for tamper, 2 for an alarm condition, and a couple for spare. The tamper circuit needs to be set up as a compete loop, so you need a connector block to link all the tamper circuits together. You can have 2 keypads (normal one downstairs, and a second one upstairs for setting the alarm at night.
Alarm peripherals are fairly straight forward in design, so if you run 8 core cable around the skirting boards, then you've got 2 cores to power the item, 2 cores for tamper, 2 for an alarm condition, and a couple for spare. The tamper circuit needs to be set up as a compete loop, so you need a connector block to link all the tamper circuits together. You can have 2 keypads (normal one downstairs, and a second one upstairs for setting the alarm at night.
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Sparky - So shall I go for a different cable then?
Doggit - If I wanted to hardwire, I could instead just go for a wired pyronic. But I won't clip the wire onto the skirting as it would look very ugly and I'm not willing to lift the whole upper floorboards just to pass a few cables through them. The only reason for hardwiring the bell is because I want it to have reliable power and it also means I don't have to get a ladder to change it's battery every so often.
Doggit - If I wanted to hardwire, I could instead just go for a wired pyronic. But I won't clip the wire onto the skirting as it would look very ugly and I'm not willing to lift the whole upper floorboards just to pass a few cables through them. The only reason for hardwiring the bell is because I want it to have reliable power and it also means I don't have to get a ladder to change it's battery every so often.
Lol wire round the skirting ... Do you work for BT ?
On the cable point ....just check if your picking it up that it is stranded not solid core ...
On the cable point ....just check if your picking it up that it is stranded not solid core ...
It's further down the forum list ...." 6 core stranded or solid "
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Doggit
Sorry boiler, I was I didn't realise that you didn't want the wiring showing. And no Sparky, I don't work for BT, just giving a quick and easy suggestion.
Sparky, I found the thread and rather than risk ordering the wrong alarm cable from toolstation, I might as well as order it from elsewhere...any recommendations?
What about this one? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alarm-Cable____6-Cable-Burglar-White/dp/B005HU0F8U
What about this one? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alarm-Cable____6-Cable-Burglar-White/dp/B005HU0F8U
Where you at ?
Sorry? What do you mean? Oh! Leeds mate
Would give WF SENATE a ring there's a branch in Leeds
Sparky, I'm more towards bradford...pudsey areas...but what's the purpose of calling them mate?
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