"TheScullster" wrote in message
. uk...

"Jim K" wrote



guess your "friend" will have to pay up or dump the alarm and buy
another ;) simples!


Can't he just set the thing off, disable the bell box battery (to
silence the external sounder) then locate the factory reset
button-thingy to return the panel to factory defaults?
Granted he'll need to get instructions for re-setting of the panel
and then re-programming with zone info etc before hand.
If the alarm is generally good this has to be a better option for
battery replacement than junking the equipment.

He does have the instructions to do a factory reset and reprogram,
which he'll do if all else fails. Someone in another group suggested
just what he did ie changing the battery while the alarm is going off,
which would be quicker than a factory reset. But he'll need to check
the engineer code isn't needed to reset after a 'tamper'.

Although he's now got this crazy idea of going through all 10,000
codes till one works, he reckons he can do 100 in 6 mins so he can the
lot in 10 hours but I'm sure he'll knacker the keypad before then!