"Toby" wrote


Sounds like a reasonable thing to do to me - if you have flashing LED's on
the bell box, one may stop because of the loss of the backup battery, but
other than that, as long as the bell box is in SAB mode, rather than SCB
mode (Self Contained Bell, where AFAIK the sounder always uses the battery
to sound) you can always test this by doing a bell test after you
disconnect the battery)

Unless there is a way to deactivate the tamper in the bell box that you
know of, you need to put your panel into engineering mode, then climb
ladder with ear defenders, open the bell box (which should sound when you
open it) then disconnect the battery (still sounding), then put the cover
back on (it should stop sounding now!)

If you omit the ear defenders, then prepare yourself for ringing ears for
quite a while afterwards...

Toby...

Thanks Toby

I will check for SAB/SCB mode.
Yes I can de-activate the bell box - there is a 15min hold-off facility
which can be invoked by testing the strobe 3 times in 30 seconds.
One problem is that it is difficult to see the flash mode of the bell box
leds on a bright day.
Think I'll fit the ear plugs just in case

Phil