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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1001340" data-attributes="member: 176704">Alarm batteries!A few years ago, our system went into very LOUD shrieking mode - and, with the sounder in the hall, I had to get out the tools, rip the cover off and cut one of the wires to the sounder - relative &quot;bliss&quot;. Then had to wait for the ADT engineer to come and reset the system properly - but he was glad that I hadn't just ripped the box off the wall, as one customer had done, and he then found that the breaker supplying the control box, which has the back-up gel battery in it, had tripped and that battery had gone flat&nbsp; and triggered the sounder (battery was still OK, but he replaced it anyway).Quite a few other problems over the years - notably with the wireless connections between the sensors, and especially the one in the conservatory, and the control unit. Generally these were quickly fixed by the ADT engineers, except the last time when the first guy replaced the conservatory sensor but it still didn't work correctly, and it was only the 3rd (4th?) guy who finally found out that the replacement had also been faulty - and he was not very &quot;complimentary&quot; about his predecessors not actually twigging that that replacement was duff!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1001340, member: 176704"] Alarm batteries! A few years ago, our system went into very LOUD shrieking mode - and, with the sounder in the hall, I had to get out the tools, rip the cover off and cut one of the wires to the sounder - relative "bliss". Then had to wait for the ADT engineer to come and reset the system properly - but he was glad that I hadn't just ripped the box off the wall, as one customer had done, and he then found that the breaker supplying the control box, which has the back-up gel battery in it, had tripped and that battery had gone flat and triggered the sounder (battery was still OK, but he replaced it anyway). Quite a few other problems over the years - notably with the wireless connections between the sensors, and especially the one in the conservatory, and the control unit. Generally these were quickly fixed by the ADT engineers, except the last time when the first guy replaced the conservatory sensor but it still didn't work correctly, and it was only the 3rd (4th?) guy who finally found out that the replacement had also been faulty - and he was not very "complimentary" about his predecessors not actually twigging that that replacement was duff! [/QUOTE]

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