Veritas 8 Alarm goes off immediately with no time to put in code.

qwerty30

Hello, I have a veritas 8 alarm that has been working fine. I always set it when we go to bed. Last week, when I came downstairs, the infra red caught me as usual, but then I used to have a minute or so to go to the box before the screecher went off. Instead, the PIR caught me, and then the screecher went off immediately. Since then, it has done this every time I've set it and triggered it from this PIR.

The other PIR downstairs is working fine- if I go out of the front door and then come back in,, it does the warning beep, giving me time to get to the box to put the code in before that awful screeching noise starts.

As it was working fine and it's not that old at all, I'm guessing I've knocked it or I'm doing something wrong somewhere. Can anybody help me put it back to how it was!? I have an instruction user manual but it doesn't seem to tell me what to do in this case.

Thank you very, very much- it's giving me the fright of my life!
Jo

Dan_Iggulden

qwerty30 wrote: »

Hello, I have a veritas 8 alarm that has been working fine. I always set it when we go to bed. Last week, when I came downstairs, the infra red caught me as usual, but then I used to have a minute or so to go to the box before the screecher went off. Instead, the PIR caught me, and then the screecher went off immediately. Since then, it has done this every time I've set it and triggered it from this PIR.

The other PIR downstairs is working fine- if I go out of the front door and then come back in,, it does the warning beep, giving me time to get to the box to put the code in before that awful screeching noise starts.

As it was working fine and it's not that old at all, I'm guessing I've knocked it or I'm doing something wrong somewhere. Can anybody help me put it back to how it was!? I have an instruction user manual but it doesn't seem to tell me what to do in this case.

Thank you very, very much- it's giving me the fright of my life!
Jo

Hi Jo,
I have no experience with this particular alarm system but in general terms it sounds as though you must have had an entry delay set up for that PIR zone, this is what gives you so many seconds to get to the box to disarm it. It sounds as though that PIR has reverted to 0 seconds entry delay.
Does your manual talk about setting entry delays for different zone numbers?