Re: Scantronic 9751 internal sounder/fire detector

["londonnman" <james.o.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks, the only thing is that when we set the alarm at night, would a
speaker not also make the 30 seconds of exit-time buzzing louder as
well... and wake everybody up!


Paul Ekins wrote:
> 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?
> >