Re: Reusing old siren with new alarm control box

[HaiXin Tie <thx123@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you both for your reply and expertise. I guess it's not worth
the trouble/time/money to experiment the old siren given the risks and
uncertainty involved. I guess I will live with the internal siren or
buy a new siren if I decide to install one in the future.

On Jun 19, 3:47 am, "Just Some Guy" <notarealaddr...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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" <thx...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
> news:1505ba1f-47f6-4834-8c05-9bde9e36f984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> >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