Help with house alarm tamper fault

asglasspole

Hi,

I have an Optima XM house alarm, and due to some building work, my builder has had to remove my bell box for a while. This has now caused a tamper fault which I can't clear, and none of the buttons now work.

Does anyone know of a way that I can clear this fault and temporarily use my alarm while the bell box is removed?

Before someone points out that there's no point as the alarm will make no noise, I also have an extremely loud siren next to the alarm keypad, so it will still give me piece of mind during the night.

I was wondering if it would be as easy as just looping a wire across the bell terminals?!?!

I would be very grateful if someone could help with this, as otherwise I'll be alarmless!!

Regards,
Andy

muckybutt

Disconnect the 12v+ T & A, then put a link across the T & A terminals, that will create the bell tamper loop.

asglasspole

Thanks muckybutt, but just to double check, the T & A terminals have "SCB" under them - are they the correct ones?

Do I need to cut power/battery first, or do I just take the wires out and replace with a loop?

Also, what are the T & A terminals?

muckybutt

asglasspole wrote: »

Thanks muckybutt, but just to double check, the T & A terminals have "SCB" under them - are they the correct ones?

Them's the ones.

asglasspole wrote: »

Do I need to cut power/battery first, or do I just take the wires out and replace with a loop?

Good practice to remove the power to the bell box before taking it off the wall but too late for that so remove them in the panel.

asglasspole wrote: »

Also, what are the T & A terminals?

The T & A are what is marked in the manual (TAmper), the pcb as you say says scb which is the same connections, there should be a white line linking the two terminals on the pcb if I remember correctly ?

asglasspole

Thank you very much, that worked a treat!!!