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Omnicron 9000
Have one of these alarms which I self installed many years ago. Found the
original instructions - both installation and user. Need to change a faulty sensor, but can't stop it going off when I open it up - the 24 hour circuit. I can get it into engineering mode, but can't for the life of me find instructions on how to totally disarm it. I've left it in that mode with the power turned off and will wait until the battery goes flat if no one has a better idea. -- *Pentium wise, pen and paper foolish * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 31/07/2012 23:21, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Have one of these alarms which I self installed many years ago. Found the original instructions - both installation and user. Need to change a faulty sensor, but can't stop it going off when I open it up - the 24 hour circuit. On my old Omnicrom the easiest way, iirc, was to wedge the compression spring fastened to the anti-tamper switch in the panel under the corner of the main pcb - then cancel the alarm as normal. Has anyone ever had a burglar alarm disabled by an intruder? -- Kevin Poole |
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On 31/07/2012 23:21, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Have one of these alarms which I self installed many years ago. Found the original instructions - both installation and user. Need to change a faulty sensor, but can't stop it going off when I open it up - the 24 hour circuit. I can get it into engineering mode, but can't for the life of me find instructions on how to totally disarm it. I've left it in that mode with the power turned off and will wait until the battery goes flat if no one has a better idea. If you put it into engineering mode, then open the alarm panel cover, does this still set it off? if so, with the panel cover open, does putting the code in shut it up? -- Toby... Remove pants to reply |
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Kevin writes: Has anyone ever had a burglar alarm disabled by an intruder? A colleague at work had a break-in, and the only thing they stole was the burglar alarm. Theory was they were trying to shut it up, but the end result was rather ironic... -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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Toby wrote: On 31/07/2012 23:21, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: Have one of these alarms which I self installed many years ago. Found the original instructions - both installation and user. Need to change a faulty sensor, but can't stop it going off when I open it up - the 24 hour circuit. I can get it into engineering mode, but can't for the life of me find instructions on how to totally disarm it. I've left it in that mode with the power turned off and will wait until the battery goes flat if no one has a better idea. If you put it into engineering mode, then open the alarm panel cover, does this still set it off? Yes. if so, with the panel cover open, does putting the code in shut it up? Not tried that. But couldn't shut it up with the other 24 hour circuit broken without making it again. The battery was flat by this morning so it's sorted. Hope it will charge up again ok - it must be 15 years old. ;-) -- *Stable Relationships Are For Horses. * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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"Dave Plowman (News)" writes: The battery was flat by this morning so it's sorted. Hope it will charge up again ok - it must be 15 years old. ;-) It likely won't, but it's well overdue for replacement anyway. Any idea how long it took to run flat? -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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Andrew Gabriel wrote: In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes: The battery was flat by this morning so it's sorted. Hope it will charge up again ok - it must be 15 years old. ;-) It likely won't, but it's well overdue for replacement anyway. Any idea how long it took to run flat? At least 4 hours before I went to bed. It's drawing a reasonable charge current, so may just be ok. Not that I'm worried anyway - can't remember the last power cut. -- *Cover me. I'm changing lanes. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message ... Have one of these alarms which I self installed many years ago. Found the original instructions - both installation and user. Need to change a faulty sensor, but can't stop it going off when I open it up - the 24 hour circuit. I can get it into engineering mode, but can't for the life of me find instructions on how to totally disarm it. I've left it in that mode with the power turned off and will wait until the battery goes flat if no one has a better idea. I don't think you can. It will only activate the internal sounder when you open it unless the engineer has enabled full alarm mode for the tamper circuit. You can cancel it once its gone off. If you let the main panel go flat the bell box will then ring for a few minutes/hours depending on which one you have. Leave the power on and change the sensor, its only 12V so there isn't much chance of you getting killed. Try not to short stuff out, I don't believe it will do any damage if you do, but it will probably start the damn alarm again. |
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On 01/08/2012 10:11, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article , Kevin writes: Has anyone ever had a burglar alarm disabled by an intruder? A colleague at work had a break-in, and the only thing they stole was the burglar alarm. Theory was they were trying to shut it up, but the end result was rather ironic... I had student friends living in a tower block in Salford. There were security guards based in the bottom of the tower 24/7, who also monitored the adjacent block via CCTV. Someone stole the cameras! SteveW |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote: At least 4 hours before I went to bed. It's drawing a reasonable charge current, so may just be ok. Not that I'm worried anyway - can't remember the last power cut. And I dropped it down the cellar stairs when replacing it - so now truly toast. ;-) New one from TLC is rather less than I'd have guessed. -- *If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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ARWadsworth wrote: Omnicron 9000:-) Did it ever have a proper engineering mode? Seems to have. My parents had one (in fact they still do have one, but it now only protects their garage). ISTR just connecting the battery directly to the bell box when I worked on it. It was quite sophisticated in its day. Has all the facilities I need. And had far less false alarms than all the pro installed units around me. ;-) -- *I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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En el artículo , ARWadsworth adamwadsworth@
blueyonder.co.uk escribió: I can disable most systems. However I need to put a ladder up to the bellbox to do it (silent activation) what about self-contained bells? -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artículo , ARWadsworth adamwadsworth@ blueyonder.co.uk escribió: I can disable most systems. However I need to put a ladder up to the bellbox to do it (silent activation) what about self-contained bells? If you know the layout of the innards of a bellbox then you know where to cut a hole in the cover to expose the electrics without activating the tamper. You can do whatever you want when you have access to the terminals and the alarm is not sounding. -- Adam |
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"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message ... En el artículo , ARWadsworth adamwadsworth@ blueyonder.co.uk escribió: I can disable most systems. However I need to put a ladder up to the bellbox to do it (silent activation) what about self-contained bells? That depends on how cheap they are. If you can get to the wiring (e.g. by prising it off the wall or cutting holes in it) you can connect a battery to it and stop it ringing or just remove the internal battery from the PCB. Better ones have double skins (the big chubb triangular ones for instance) and multiple attachment places for the anti tamper circuit. I have glued a thin wire "grid" to the inside of my cheap bell box so if the cover is forced and/or cut the wire breaks, the anti-tamper being feed through it. Its a trick I learnt in my first full time job at Chubb alarms in Brum. They do the same thing when they board windows up, etc. |
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On 01/08/2012 12:48, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes: The battery was flat by this morning so it's sorted. Hope it will charge up again ok - it must be 15 years old. ;-) It likely won't, but it's well overdue for replacement anyway. Any idea how long it took to run flat? Charging back up is not the problem. After a few years the battery still has the correct terminal voltage but seem to be unable to supply enough (instantaneous) power to stop the alarms tripping when you get a power cut/glitch for a few seconds, or less. -- mailto:news{at}admac(dot}myzen{dot}co{dot}uk |
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On 01/08/2012 23:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
It was quite sophisticated in its day. Has all the facilities I need. And had far less false alarms than all the pro installed units around me. ;-) I had an omnicron purchased from Maplin Electronics (probably 15/20 years ago). The instructions were *#@! and the additional notes supplied by Maplin were, at best, rather amateurish. In the end I wrote my own two page operational notes and set-up procedure. It served me well until about 2 months ago when it failed with a PSU fault. I was going to repair it but decided that life was too short to bother when I found that I could get a control box at a reasonable price from TLC. http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TSOPTCG4.html -- mailto:news{at}admac(dot}myzen{dot}co{dot}uk |
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dennis@home wrote:
"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message ... En el artículo , ARWadsworth adamwadsworth@ blueyonder.co.uk escribió: I can disable most systems. However I need to put a ladder up to the bellbox to do it (silent activation) what about self-contained bells? That depends on how cheap they are. If you can get to the wiring (e.g. by prising it off the wall or cutting holes in it) you can connect a battery to it and stop it ringing or just remove the internal battery from the PCB. Better ones have double skins (the big chubb triangular ones for instance) and multiple attachment places for the anti tamper circuit. I have glued a thin wire "grid" to the inside of my cheap bell box so if the cover is forced and/or cut the wire breaks, the anti-tamper being feed through it. Its a trick I learnt in my first full time job at Chubb alarms in Brum. They do the same thing when they board windows up, etc. I know a way around that:-) -- Adam |
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