On 19/10/2016 21:09, F wrote:
On 18/10/2016 20:42, Michael Chare wrote:
On 18/10/2016 17:07, F wrote:
Probably a daft question, but I wanted to check...

I noticed earlier today that the top of the alarm bell box is missing!
Old and brittle plastic?

A search on Ebay comes up with what seems to be a choice of bell boxes
with sirens and LEDs inside, and 'dummy' bell boxes.

I don't need the innards so, will a dummy do the job? Is the 'dummy'
just the fully featured box minus the features?


If possible I would ask the sounder manufacturer if the dummy will do
what you want. You may well find that the innards of your box have
corroded anyway. They are not that expensive to replace. The alarm
sounder that I have can be put into a standby mode using the control
panel so that you can take the cover off without the tamper switch
setting it off.

Maintenance mode on my panel also prevents the system from sounding.


Yes, but the sounders are a bit independent. Mine would go off if
tampered with even if the panel was in engineer mode. I have to use
engineer mode to switch the strobe off and on a few times in quick
succession if I want to take the cover off the sounder.


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Michael Chare

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