Scantronic 9651 Battery Replacement Advice Required Please!!

[Kevin Whitelaw]

Hi all,

Hoping someone can give me some advice on replacing a duff battery for a Scantronic 9651. Our control panel was doing the usual alert beeps with the unit low battery warning and we could not get it to stop beeping every 15-30 mins. This carried on until 4am this morning so I'd like to avoid another sleepless night especially with a child in the house!

I've watched a video on taking out the old battery and replacing it which seems simple enough but if I'm one of the unlucky ones that has a system which requires an engineer reset, I'm stuffed as I don't know where to start with that. What would happen with my system if i can't do an engineer reset, does it just keep beeping and can't be shut off?

I've read the other threads that mention short circuiting NVM reset pins etc but I have no electrical eng knowledge at all so I wouldn't know where to start with any of that!

 

[Handymanjo]

Changing battery is simple.
Until you open lid you will not know if tamper reset is by engineer code.
Open lid
Disconnect faulty battery
Replace with new battery either 2.8/3.2/7.0 ah battery
Replace lid ensuring lid is fitted back on correctly
User code to reset.
If at this point it requires a engineer code ,then ask how to do stage 1 reset. This has been posted numerous times on here.