Plugged in burglar alarm

Brightspark2 · Apr 7, 2015

shanky887614 said:
the yale wireless ones are ****e, you have 20 secs from entry to unplug phone cable then pull it off the wall and take out the AA batteries lol

Will the bell box still not sound?...

shanky887614 · Apr 7, 2015

Brightspark2 said:
Will the bell box still not sound?...

after a while it just turns itself off. i know cause i forgot the garage zone is set to set alarm off automatically, by the time i got to the house and tried to remeber the code it had reset.

the wireless pir's are rubbish as well, they keep losing sync.

with alarms go wired or go home

tazz · Apr 8, 2015

Your minimum grading should not be lower than grade 2, with at least communicator or digi... insurance companies will expect this grade, so now here lays the problem, either fit grade 2 or dont fit any alarm. If they can get out of paying they will. Hence the reason for the installer to have indemnity insurance.

jtimbers · Apr 8, 2015

So under grade 2 won't make a difference to insurance?

But surely fitting a poor quality alarm and not mentioning it to the house insurers won't reduce the chance of them paying out. A bad alarm won't increase the chance of getting broken in to compared a house with no alarm what so ever.

Some people fit faux bell boxes for just this reason - it's a slight deterrent.

shanky887614 · Apr 8, 2015

jtimbers said:
So under grade 2 won't make a difference to insurance?

But surely fitting a poor quality alarm and not mentioning it to the house insurers won't reduce the chance of them paying out. A bad alarm won't increase the chance of getting broken in to compared a house with no alarm what so ever.

Some people fit faux bell boxes for just this reason - it's a slight deterrent.

thats what my stepdad has done, waste of time i competent burgler would look through the windows to where the keypad is and break in there

Deleted member 72666 · Apr 8, 2015

SPARTYKUS said:
Are you definately fixed on having the plug...?

you could just snip it off and connect it to a fused spur. It wouldn't hurt anyone or anything, and it'd be alot better for it....

I mean you're not planning on unplugging it and taking it for a drive to your nans for a few weeks, surely!

It may not be that simple as it'll probably be a plug-in psu which is aimed at the diy market, complete waste of time imo!