Re: Reusing old siren with new alarm control box

["Just Some Guy" <notarealaddress@xxxxxxxx>]

The larger of the two speakers is for the siren.  The smaller of the two is
the "beeper" that the Caretaker used for annunciating arming level,
entry/exit delay, chime etc.  It sounds like your new panel has a voltage
output for the siren so you would need a "siren driver" to connect the new
panel to the old siren (which is really just a speaker).  You would connect
it to the larger of the two speakers.  Of course by the time you buy a siren
driver and connect it up you could have replaced it with a new
self-contained siren probably for less money.


"HaiXin Tie" <thx123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am trying to reuse the internal siren of an old home alarm system in
> my house (ITI caretaker), which has a 4-wire input (red/green/black/
> white). Inside the siren there are two speakers: one looks like a
> regular speaker; the other looks like the one that would generate high
> pitch sound. To each speaker there are two input wires connected to
> it. But my new alarm's control unit only shows 2-wire connection
> (+12V, INT) to an internal siren. (Online installer manual, page 6
> diagram: http://nextalarm.net/abbra/files/Installer.pdf). My old siren
> comes with the ITI caretaker system and doesn't have a model number of
> its own, so I can't find its spec or manual. My question is, can I
> still connect my old siren to the new control unit? If so, how should
> I wire it? Another stupid question is that what is a good place to get
> that kind of 4-colored wires? Radioshack/Fry's? I would really
> appreciate your expertise. Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> James