On Aug 22, 3:53 am, Jason wrote:
On Aug 22, 1:19 am, Tony Hwang wrote:





Jason wrote:
I bought my house about 5 years ago, and it already had an alarm
installed (wireless sensors, motion detectors, and a very annoying
voice that screams "SYSTEM IS ON" and "SYSTEM IS OFF," etc). I'm
guessing that the alarm is about 10 years old, but it could be
slightly more or less.

Recently, the keypad decided to go screwy. If you hit a key (any key),
it just beeps incessantly. Not beep, beep, beep, but
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. At first, you could press a bunch of random buttons
and it would eventually stop, but the last time it went off I couldn't
get it to stop so I totally unplugged the keypad.

Which, incidentally, doesn't make me feel all that safe.

Assuming that the problem here is just the keypad, can I just buy a
new one and plug it in, or do I have to replace the whole kaboodle? If
so, are the plugs pretty much universal, or will I have to rewire the
whole thing?

TIA,

Jason

Hi,
In one instance,
they go crazy when the back up rechargeable battery goes.
Time to check it. Probably it is gone bad. Replace it and let
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Is this battery in the keypad itself, or the brain? There's a big
battery in the brain, but it's odd shaped and I would probably have to
find it online. I didn't see one in the keypad at first glance (at
4:30am).

Thanks for the help,

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The battery is in the control panel. Typically it's quite large as it
has to power the whole alarm system for hours. What makes you think
it's the keypad? If one key is intermittent, or similar, thenI'd say
its' the pad. If it's acting screwey, could be the controller, loose
connection, pad, etc.

If the alarm has issues that annoy u and can't be changed, then maybe
it's time to change the panel and the keypad.