Fastalarms - 0800 4488823 installing in Yorkshire

Had an interesting week.

Had a call from a client who had an alarm installed this year.

She informed me it didn't seem to be working?  Odd I thought since in 200 installations I had never had a fault problem.  Anyway I described over the phone how to reset her control panel and I thought that would be the everything hunky dory.  Unfortunately not. Had another call so I went off to my client to see what could be the cause of the problem. On arriving it seems in her absence some contractors had entered her rented home to do some work.  Obviously the alarm went off as she hadn't expected their arrival.

The following scene I wish I had been there to see.

The alarm went off and with two external sirens and an internal sounder (6400 system with extra siren) there would have been one heck of a noise.  The neighbours said the noise had continued for half an hour. (The alarm cuts off after 15 mins maximum but due to the contractors being still on site they would have immediately activated it again. Well after half an hour they could stand it no longer and attempts to access the control panel had simply locked them out. I can see their faces now.

In the end they had to climb up ladders to get to the two external sirens to deactivate them. The alarm was still fully functional except the internal sounder on the control panel was no longer working. It seems their frustrations had got the better of them and they had pulled the panel from the wall only to find it still wouldn't stop as the internal battery was still powering the alarm.

I can inly imagine their sweating and cursing.

So what did this prove?

It proved that the 6400 system is extremely resilient. 

Any alarm that takes more than half an hour to defeat has certainly proved it's worth.