Moved into new house - Don’t know the alarm

Arsenal2019

Hi all

ive recently moved into a property and it has an alarm fitted. However I do not know the code. But neither did the previous owners.

does anyone know how I would go about finding this code out / resetting it? 

The alarm box which is fitted on the exterior wall of the house says ‘Wright Security’ on a blue triangular box and the key coded box inside the house is a plain box and has no brand on it! It does however say under the box  ‘B-503-0019’.

now I’ve googled both these and no results come up. 

Can someone please help me as I would very much like to know how to reset the alarm code or disarm it completely as I would hate to have the alarm go off randomly and not know the code

thank you 

Hoenir

Could these be the people

https://www.thewrightsecurity.co.uk/

HampshireH

How did they manage it when there was a power cut. Our goes off the minute the power goes.

TadleyBaggie

HampshireH said:

How did they manage it when there was a power cut. Our goes off the minute the power goes.

Then that probably means your backup battery is dead.

Mr.Generous

Worth a try is this, knock the power off and disconnect the backup battery inside the panel. The siren may well go off, it usually has a capacitor in the bell/siren box which can power the siren for a while. The maximum would be 20 minutes - but it may well be less. If you wanted to you could be ready up a ladder and un screw the cover and disconnect a wire to the siren at this point. That'll shut it up. They are loud up close!!

 

Once its fully flat - probably at least 20 mins without power - many microprocessor alarms revert to the factory code. This is usually 1234 or 9999. When you reconnect, the power try these. If they don’t work just leave it disconnected as a visible deterrent - it doesn't work now so you have nothing to lose.

Arsenal2019

Hoenir said:

Could these be the people

https://www.thewrightsecurity.co.uk/

it could be. I’ll give them a ring

Arsenal2019

HampshireH said:

How did they manage it when there was a power cut. Our goes off the minute the power goes.

I’ve no idea but I’ve also thought this ! 

Arsenal2019

Mr.Generous said:

Worth a try is this, knock the power off and disconnect the backup battery inside the panel. The siren may well go off, it usually has a capacitor in the bell/siren box which can power the siren for a while. The maximum would be 20 minutes - but it may well be less. If you wanted to you could be ready up a ladder and un screw the cover and disconnect a wire to the siren at this point. That'll shut it up. They are loud up close!!

 

Once it’s fully flat - probably at least 20 mins without power - many microprocessor alarms revert to the factory code. This is usually 1234 or 9999. When you reconnect, the power try these. If they don’t work just leave it disconnected as a visible deterrent - it doesn't work now so you have nothing to lose.

Thanks for your reply. That’s something to bear in mind once I can get some ladders big enough. However I’m not too sure on how I would disconnect the battery  inside the panel 

Silvertabby

If it's not been used for some time, then may be wise to get it serviced.  The engineer will also change the back up battery (which must be on its last legs) and re-set the code.

cymruchris

Mr.Generous said:

Worth a try is this, knock the power off and disconnect the backup battery inside the panel. The siren may well go off, it usually has a capacitor in the bell/siren box which can power the siren for a while. The maximum would be 20 minutes - but it may well be less. If you wanted to you could be ready up a ladder and un screw the cover and disconnect a wire to the siren at this point. That'll shut it up. They are loud up close!!

 

Once its fully flat - probably at least 20 mins without power - many microprocessor alarms revert to the factory code. This is usually 1234 or 9999. When you reconnect, the power try these. If they don’t work just leave it disconnected as a visible deterrent - it doesn't work now so you have nothing to lose.

Be aware though that if there is any power left in the backup battery, removing bell box covers usually triggers an anti-tamper switch - and so the thing could start blaring at you while still undoing the screws. Once the cover is off, you can cut the cables that run from the battery and then it should shut up.

It can be a bit disconcerting if you've not done it before and it starts sounding - have to be careful not to panic and fall off the ladder!

If it's that old that the old house owners have no ideas what the codes are, which suggests it might have been installed by the previous owners to them - and you do want an alarm - I might suggest getting what you have removed, and have a new system installed with new detectors and possibly a fob arming/disarming with code as backup.

Mr.Generous

cymruchris said:

Mr.Generous said:

Worth a try is this, knock the power off and disconnect the backup battery inside the panel. The siren may well go off, it usually has a capacitor in the bell/siren box which can power the siren for a while. The maximum would be 20 minutes - but it may well be less. If you wanted to you could be ready up a ladder and un screw the cover and disconnect a wire to the siren at this point. That'll shut it up. They are loud up close!!

 

Once its fully flat - probably at least 20 mins without power - many microprocessor alarms revert to the factory code. This is usually 1234 or 9999. When you reconnect, the power try these. If they don’t work just leave it disconnected as a visible deterrent - it doesn't work now so you have nothing to lose.

Be aware though that if there is any power left in the backup battery, removing bell box covers usually triggers an anti-tamper switch - and so the thing could start blaring at you while still undoing the screws. Once the cover is off, you can cut the cables that run from the battery and then it should shut up.

It can be a bit disconcerting if you've not done it before and it starts sounding - have to be careful not to panic and fall off the ladder!

If it's that old that the old house owners have no ideas what the codes are, which suggests it might have been installed by the previous owners to them - and you do want an alarm - I might suggest getting what you have removed, and have a new system installed with new detectors and possibly a fob arming/disarming with code as backup.

Which is why I'd set it off BEFORE I went up the ladder, by disconnecting the power.