Re: Problem with Scantronic avenger VI

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Aug 26, 9:57=A0pm, Euh <Euh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 is
> > > > pretty old panel.
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> > > I opened the control panel and there is indeed a big battery (Exaltor
> > > 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.
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> 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  eons
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 $.

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 ?-

I don't know. I've never  used 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.