DSC 832 pc5010 mystery trouble condition

[Jon]

Hi.

I have a DSC Power832 PC5010 with three PC500 LED keypads, one PC500
LCD keypad, and all eight primary inputs occupied (smoke, CO, motion,
glassbreak, etc). The system works fine, mostly. I've had it
accurately catch security breaks, smoke in the house, and what
appeared to be a CO situation.

However, about twice a year the keypads will do the
"two-beeps-in-ten-seconds" indicating trouble conditions. If I *2,
the keypads say "no troubles". If I *3, I'll get the last smoke
alarm, months old. The beeping usually happens at night, just as I'm
falling asleep. Last night it happenned at 11 and again at 1:30, but
has behaved before and since.

Any suggestions? Yes, I have applied liberal profanity, but the
beeping was unimpressed. Since I installed the system myself, my wife
is grumbling about calling in a professional, but maybe thats just
interrupted sleep talking.

 

[Bob4Secur]

Is the telephone line monitor function enabled on the system? If so, it may
be possible the panel is seeing intermittent outages or phone line trouble,
such as grounds. Just a thought worth looking into.

Bob4Secur

 

[Jon]

1/. Have you tried using the LCD keypad to access the event log ?

Nope. Will do, however. Thanks!

2/.Are you sure the beeping is coming from
a keypad and not from somewhere else such a low battery in a stand alone smoke
detector.?

Good question. Pretty sure, though. As I mentioned, I have four
keypads (3 LED, one LCD). They all beep synchronously. Its a pretty
unique sound.

 

[anomynous]

1/. Have you tried using the LCD keypad to access the event log ?

2/.Are you sure the beeping is coming from
a keypad and not from somewhere else such a low battery in a stand alone smoke
detector.?

Doug L

Jon wrote

True story, customer complaining that his motion detector is beeping, turns
out, the beeping was from his pager because it had a low battery.

 

[RH.Campbell]

Quite common really !! I can't count how many times a client has called
claiming his keypad is beeping, even though no trouble condition exists, and
it turns out to be something else other than his alarm system.

Let me give you another true story....

A client of mine called to tell me that his alarm system was whining in a
high pitched fashion. So I went out thinking the siren probably needed a
resistor across it to stop this kind of problem which sometimes occurs.
Instead, after quite a bit of investigation, it turned out to be a low
battery indicator in the introvenous machine that was keeping this
terminally ill patient alive.

On the plus side, I did get the chance to visit with a client I hadn't seem
for quite awhile ! On the down side, this fine gentleman died about three
weeks later.

RHC

 

[anomynous]

Quite common really !! I can't count how many times a client has called
claiming his keypad is beeping, even though no trouble condition exists, and
it turns out to be something else other than his alarm system.

Let me give you another true story....

A client of mine called to tell me that his alarm system was whining in a
high pitched fashion. So I went out thinking the siren probably needed a
resistor across it to stop this kind of problem which sometimes occurs.
Instead, after quite a bit of investigation, it turned out to be a low
battery indicator in the introvenous machine that was keeping this
terminally ill patient alive.

On the plus side, I did get the chance to visit with a client I hadn't seem
for quite awhile ! On the down side, this fine gentleman died about three
weeks later.

RHC

Yep, it's always the alarm system causing the noise that's keeping them
awake all night.

 

[Warren Piece]

Quite common really !! I can't count how many times a client has called
claiming his keypad is beeping, even though no trouble condition exists, and
it turns out to be something else other than his alarm system.

Let me give you another true story....

A client of mine called to tell me that his alarm system was whining in a
high pitched fashion. So I went out thinking the siren probably needed a
resistor across it to stop this kind of problem which sometimes occurs.
Instead, after quite a bit of investigation, it turned out to be a low
battery indicator in the introvenous machine that was keeping this
terminally ill patient alive.

On the plus side, I did get the chance to visit with a client I hadn't seem
for quite awhile ! On the down side, this fine gentleman died about three
weeks later.

which begs the question... was that battery ever replaced?

 

[G. Morgan]

Went to a guys house one day and got a royal
butt-rumping from this guy for about 15 minutes

ummmm....

nevermind.





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[alarman]

ummmm....

nevermind.

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