Re: Strange DSC 832 behavior

[LJ <alarmco@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 Jun 2005 09:45:57 -0700, "Bobby_M" <rmierzej@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I'm totally lost. I have an all-hard wired 832 system with one
>expansion board. I have 7 magnetic contact perimeter zones, one window
>bug (vibration) on my sliders, and 4 motions that are set as inide
>zones.
>
>Last night, my alarm woke me up at 2am, siren blasting. I got up and
>looked at my bedroom keypad and it did not indicate any zones that were
>responsible for the alarm condition. I haven't tested the system in a
>while, but I recall that the keypad displays and cycles through each
>tripped zone both during the alarm, and after the swing.
>
>I disarmed and it didn't show me any tripped zones in memory.
>
>Any ideas what's going on? This is the second time this has happened,
>the first time was over a year ago.
>
>I know the system monitors for dial-tone because i've heard the keypad
>complain "error" when I work on my phone line but this has always been
>in a non-armed state. Does the system alarm if it loses dial tone when
>armed?
>If your TLM is enabled and the alarm is set for the night, any phone outage lasting about 30 seconds will set the sirens off.It doesn't show up on the key pad, so a *2 on the keypad might help track down the problem.
>Bobby