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HKC beeping issue on powercut?

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  • 23-12-2012 3:02am
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    Raiser
    Registered Users Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭


    This is happening right now! Any insomniac alarm experts up?

    The storm has knocked out the power and now our HKC alarm says panel mains fault - I can silence it by entering our code but it just starts beeping again ten mins later.

    - Cant sleep and am tempted to attack it with a nearby hammer... It's driving me insane, how do you properly silence these in a power cut???

    Thanks!


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    Dotsie~tmp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭Dotsie~tmp


    Its supposed to beep on main power loss though I dont recall one going off again so soon, maybe HKCs do. If your really stuck you can crack open the keypad and turn down the beep volume resistor. The alarm will go off but can be silenced.

    edit. By crack i mean open properly not hit! then replace lid.


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    Raiser
    Registered Users Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    Dotsie~tmp wrote: »
    Its supposed to beep on main power loss though I dont recall one going off again so soon, maybe HKCs do. If your really stuck you can crack open the keypad and turn down the beep volume resistor. The alarm will go off but can be silenced.

    edit. By crack i mean open properly not hit! then replace lid.

    Thanks dotsie, seems like a dumb system...... HKC haven't allowed for user intervention in the case of genuine power cuts?

    - I did open panel in last house in lived in, there's a spring loaded gotcha switch in there isn't there?

    Might be hammer time......

    Fcuking thing.


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    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    It should really only alert you the once. It wasn't a case of the power coming & going was it?
    The only other way to change these alerts is in engineer mode.


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    Thunderbird2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭Thunderbird2


    +1 it shouldn't keep beeping unless the power tried to come back on . Are you sure it's a HKC and not a Ge simon eircom phonewatch alarm ?


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