If you are saying you have 2 sounder circuit cables back at the panel it's ok. If you are saying that you have 8 sounder cables back at the panel then this all falls flat as they have EOL devices too.
If the latter the only solution I can see is use a bi-wire system (e.g. Fike Twin flex pro) and combined detector/sounders, and fine a way to either lose a detector or find the simplest cable run between two devices (loft space?) as I'm not aware of an >8 zone bi-wire system.
thanks Tim, yes, I have 2 sounder cables back to the central point (where the panel will sit)
one cable is for one sounder, the other cable is for the other sounder
I then have another 9 cables coming to the central point (where the panel will sit) each of these cables are going directly to the devices, 7 of them to detectors, 2 of them to call points.
The cable monkey simply thought that each device will be connected directly to the panel and not in a series.
So now I am trying to find a fire alarm panel that would accept this setup...
Perhaps, if I can't find a panel, then maybe 2 panels can be installed and the devices would be split between them into zones... one would have 5 zones, and a sounder and the other 4 zones and a spunder...
re-wire it into a series would be a pig of a job.... :-(
Many thanks again for all the replies