Okay, the question in the title will be extremely obvious to many, and I understand that it's to provide a 'back up in the event of a power cut'.
However, in the event of a power cut, does the bell box siren and strobe not run from the 12v backup battery connected inside the panel in the house?
Long story short I have just about finished renovating a house that had an old Texecom Veritas R8 alarm which was fitted in 1996.
I have had to move the panel from a wardrobe to the attic, move the RKP to a different room, replace a couple of cable runs and I've also replaced all the PIRs (prev owner was a heavy smoker and the garage PIR had failed).
All is working lovely, it's all set up how we want it and everything is now shiny and clean, but the 12v battery had a date of 2004 on it, so was well past it (now replaced).
I would imagine the bell box battery would be of equal age or possibly older so I was just wondering what the exact purpose of the battery in there is if there is a backup battery in the alarm panel itself.
Many thanks in advance.
However, in the event of a power cut, does the bell box siren and strobe not run from the 12v backup battery connected inside the panel in the house?
Long story short I have just about finished renovating a house that had an old Texecom Veritas R8 alarm which was fitted in 1996.
I have had to move the panel from a wardrobe to the attic, move the RKP to a different room, replace a couple of cable runs and I've also replaced all the PIRs (prev owner was a heavy smoker and the garage PIR had failed).
All is working lovely, it's all set up how we want it and everything is now shiny and clean, but the 12v battery had a date of 2004 on it, so was well past it (now replaced).
I would imagine the bell box battery would be of equal age or possibly older so I was just wondering what the exact purpose of the battery in there is if there is a backup battery in the alarm panel itself.
Many thanks in advance.
