Panel change - how to stop bellbox from sounding?

[RigidRaider]

Unable to find the engineer code for our Accenta G3 so have caved in to pressure from alarm mad son and bought a G4. We are about to do the swop but don't want to disturb our neighbours and I certainly ain't going up a ladder in this wind and rain.

Is there a simple way to prevent the bellbox (CQR Cequra) from sounding? Could we twist the tamper wires together while doing the swop? Would we then need to attach the bellbox + and - supply to a backup battery?

 

[oasistechnical]

attach the + and - from the bell box to the back up battery that shoul;d stop it from sounding off.

did you also buy a new battery for your new panel?


Oasis

 

[Alarm]

New battery New battery New battery New battery New battery New battery New battery New battery New battery New battery New battery New battery New battery New battery

Did I repeat myself

 

[RigidRaider]

Battery is 2 years old, thanks.

 

[oasistechnical]

that will be ok for a couple of years, why did you not just default your existing panel instead of changing it out?

Oasis

 

[RigidRaider]

Default? Does that mean going back to factory settings? Can that be done without the engineer code?

The main reason I suppose is that we have caved in after about five years of nagging that the panel is old-fashioned! Yes, yes, I know.... but five years of constant nagging gets to you in the end.

Probably completely unrelated to this but last night at 10 pm the bell box suddenly activated. We couldn't disable it from the keypad so we disconnected the power to it in the panel and after ten minutes it died. 12 y.o son says the LEDs on the box were indicating a tamper and the likely cause is a rusted tamper switch behind the cover, is he right?

Also the fact that it died after 10 minutes probably means the bell box battery is goosed, right?

 

[Alarm]

Clever 12 year old. Could be that or a few other things.

The SAB could be set at 10 mins, hence it "died" after ten. A set of ladders will prove or disprove the above.

 

[RigidRaider]

Clever 12 year old.

Thanks. Do you want to give him a job? He's one of many alarm-obsessed boys around the country who build systems in their bedrooms. He is getting too big to go up chimneys but I'm sure he would make a useful assistant once you'd got him out of bed in the mornings.

 

[Alarm]

If he can keep his mobile in his pocket and not text 6 million times a day.
Be on time and be clean, respectful to clients who knows