Re: Scantronic 9751 internal sounder/fire detector

["Paul Ekins" <pmekins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It sounds like your internal sounder is as you said a siren which actually
connects to a different pair of terminals on the main panel.
You could easily connect a speaker to the internal sounder terminals and
still use the existing sirens as well.


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"londonnman" <james.o.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> About two years ago, we had a Scantronic 9751 alarm fitted to our
> house. There are 8 zones - zone 8 is a CO fire detector.
>
> When the fire detector is activated, the manual says that the keypad
> and internal sounder sound a "warbling" tone.
>
> However, only the keypad makes a noise, and the internal sounder
> doesn't go off when the fire detector is activated.
>
> This is a problem because the keypad only sounds a very quiet alarm,
> which wouldn't wake anybody up, and more likely - because the alarm is
> linked to a monitoring station, if the fire alarm goes off, we might
> not hear it in time to cancel the false alarm and stop the fire brigade
> coming (as has already happened).
>
> I think it is because there is no "speaker" - the internal sounder is
> just a siren which probably is only able to make one noise. But surely
> the alarm doesn't comply to the relevant safety standards if the alarm
> doesn't go off properly when the fire detector is activated.
>
> Does anybody know why this is - or how we can get around it?
>