Re: Problem with Scantronic avenger VI

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 26, 10:26=A0pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Aug 26, 9:57=A0pm, Euh <Euh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On 26 ao=FBt, 21:51, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Aug 26, 9:43=A0pm, Euh <Euh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > > Im thinking along same line you are jim could be battery av6000 i=
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> > > > > pretty old panel.
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> > > > I opened the control panel and there is indeed a big battery (Exalt=
or
> > > > 12V5AH). On the battery itself, it's
> > > > written that it should be changed every 3-5 years.
> > > > We certainly never did it (for a good 6 years at least).
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> > > > Touching it, the battery itself felt kind of warm...actually even
> > > > Hot...is this normal or another sign that its life is over ?
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> > > > What would be the symptom of a dead battery ? Is thealarmbell
> > > > powered by this battery or by the house electrical circuit ?
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> > > (sigh)
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> > > Please read the First Alert FA210 thread.
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> > > and yes, if the battery is hot it needs to be changed.
> > > However, in spite of the fact that the panel still runs, you might
> > > consider replacing it for a couple of hundred dollars. It really IS
> > > prehistoric.
>
> > why would you change something that works and replace it by some fancy
> > electronic crap that will last half as much ?
>
> And you would know that by what experience?
>
> At the least a new panel would let you know well in advance that the
> battery was getting low and it wouldn't reset itself when it did. The
> transformer would have been big enough to keep the system operating
> even if you didn't pay attention to the low battery alert. You do
> realize, of course, that there was a prolonged period of time, during
> the final stages of the batteries deterioration, that ...... if the
> alarm panel would have tripped for an alarm condition, that it would
> not have had the power to transmit an alarm to central station nor
> blow the siren. Who knows how long you were without protection? YOU
> certainly didn't and only because your panel was manufactured =A0eons
> before the present fancy electronic crap systems that would have
> warned you. You only knew there was a problem when the battery was so
> completly dead that you couldn't arm it. It wasn't working LOOOOOONG
> before that occured.
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> > A battery is like 25 $.
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> You should be able to get a 12volt 7AH for just about that amount.
> Just shop around a little. Or ask your alarm company or if you don't
> have your one alarm company, just try a few local alarm companies
> close to you and tell them you'll drive over and pick it up.
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> > Anyway, will removing the battery mess up the alarm program ?-
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> I don't know. I've never =A0used that panel but some of the older panels
> would lose their arming codes if they were de-powered. ( which you had
> to re-enter) However, at this point, since your panel was resetting
> because it didn't have sufficent power, and because I suspect that
> you've already had the transformer pulled at the same time as the
> battery is disconnected, and it's still working, you should be
> alright. But you may want to wait to see if someone in this group who
> has used the panel before and still remembers how it worked, knows for
> sure.

If i remember correctly it was all prom programmed including codes