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Andrew Gabriel

In article ,
(Andrew Gabriel) writes:
In article ,
Jim K writes:
so make sure you let it off "by accident" a *few* times
once installed.....

That absolutely guarantees no one will take any notice if it
goes off for real.

My normal recommendation when you install an alarm is not not connect
up the external sounder until you've managed something like 3 months
with no false alarms.

and I should have added that you must also have identified and
fixed the cause of all false alarms you do have, so they can't
happen again. (That applies to any false alarm at any time.)

That way, you don't destroy any goodwill in
your neighbours with the initial teething problems.

(A wireless alarm might not have an option not to have the external
sounder active, whilst having the rest of the system operating.)

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Andrew Gabriel
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