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Darned Alarm System!
Yesterday morning around 10AM my alarm system started wailing. I got up
and entered the code to silence it. Meanwhile, I got a call from the gate (SOP), is everything okay? Yes, everything is fine. Well, it seems the system was still sending a trouble signal to the console so they sent someone over to take a look and reset it. It took him about 10 minutes to get it to reset properly. The thing is, Persia *knows* if that alarm goes off and the phone rings immmediately, there will be a knock at the door. A friend discribed it as 'The Beverly Hillbillies' syndrome... every time they heard that mysterious "purty music", aka the doorbell, someone would be knocking on the door. LOL Anyway, around 3:30AM Persia and I were sound asleep when the alarm went off again. I got up and punched in the code. The phone rang. As I was telling the guy there's no fire, no one is hurt, it started wailing again. Oh come on! I said I don't know what's going on, it did this yesterday morning, too. As I was saying that it went off yet again. Grrrr. He said I'm sending someone over to disconnect it so you can get some sleep. Thank you! Meanwhile, Persia knew someone would be coming over. So she went and hid in "her" room. He disconnected the alarm, although he said he really didn't like doing it. Too bad. I have enough trouble sleeping without getting up every time that thing decides to start whooping on a whim. They'll file a report and have the alarm system guys come out to take a look. As I was drifting off to sleep again, Persia rejoined me on the bed. But she remained in alert mode, just waiting for the loud whoop of the alarm, the phone ringing and that knock on the door again... Jill |
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Darned Alarm System!
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... Yesterday morning around 10AM my alarm system started wailing. I got up and entered the code to silence it. Meanwhile, I got a call from the gate (SOP), is everything okay? Yes, everything is fine. Well, it seems the system was still sending a trouble signal to the console so they sent someone over to take a look and reset it. It took him about 10 minutes to get it to reset properly. The thing is, Persia *knows* if that alarm goes off and the phone rings immmediately, there will be a knock at the door. A friend discribed it as 'The Beverly Hillbillies' syndrome... every time they heard that mysterious "purty music", aka the doorbell, someone would be knocking on the door. LOL Anyway, around 3:30AM Persia and I were sound asleep when the alarm went off again. I got up and punched in the code. The phone rang. As I was telling the guy there's no fire, no one is hurt, it started wailing again. Oh come on! I said I don't know what's going on, it did this yesterday morning, too. As I was saying that it went off yet again. Grrrr. He said I'm sending someone over to disconnect it so you can get some sleep. Thank you! Meanwhile, Persia knew someone would be coming over. So she went and hid in "her" room. He disconnected the alarm, although he said he really didn't like doing it. Too bad. I have enough trouble sleeping without getting up every time that thing decides to start whooping on a whim. They'll file a report and have the alarm system guys come out to take a look. As I was drifting off to sleep again, Persia rejoined me on the bed. But she remained in alert mode, just waiting for the loud whoop of the alarm, the phone ringing and that knock on the door again... Jill ~~~~~~~ That happened to me several years ago. In my case, I needed a new battery for the backup system. That might be worth checking when maintenance comes to check yours. I change batteries in various appliances, but I could not change the big batteries in the security system. That required a technician. Fortunately, those batteries last a long time. MaryL |
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Darned Alarm System!
On 1/9/2014 2:06 PM, MaryL wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... Yesterday morning around 10AM my alarm system started wailing. I got up and entered the code to silence it. Meanwhile, I got a call from the gate (SOP), is everything okay? Yes, everything is fine. Well, it seems the system was still sending a trouble signal to the console so they sent someone over to take a look and reset it. It took him about 10 minutes to get it to reset properly. The thing is, Persia *knows* if that alarm goes off and the phone rings immmediately, there will be a knock at the door. A friend discribed it as 'The Beverly Hillbillies' syndrome... every time they heard that mysterious "purty music", aka the doorbell, someone would be knocking on the door. LOL Anyway, around 3:30AM Persia and I were sound asleep when the alarm went off again. I got up and punched in the code. The phone rang. As I was telling the guy there's no fire, no one is hurt, it started wailing again. Oh come on! I said I don't know what's going on, it did this yesterday morning, too. As I was saying that it went off yet again. Grrrr. He said I'm sending someone over to disconnect it so you can get some sleep. Thank you! Meanwhile, Persia knew someone would be coming over. So she went and hid in "her" room. He disconnected the alarm, although he said he really didn't like doing it. Too bad. I have enough trouble sleeping without getting up every time that thing decides to start whooping on a whim. They'll file a report and have the alarm system guys come out to take a look. As I was drifting off to sleep again, Persia rejoined me on the bed. But she remained in alert mode, just waiting for the loud whoop of the alarm, the phone ringing and that knock on the door again... Jill ~~~~~~~ That happened to me several years ago. In my case, I needed a new battery for the backup system. That might be worth checking when maintenance comes to check yours. I change batteries in various appliances, but I could not change the big batteries in the security system. That required a technician. Fortunately, those batteries last a long time. MaryL Oh, I forgot to say, when the guard was here the first time Wednesday morning he tested the battery. He said it was fine. Besides, I would recognize the periodic beep it makes when the battery is running low. I've had to replace it once. This wasn't at all like a battery warning beep. It was a full scale alarm. It's extremely loud. There is a horn. Oh, and I've been informed via the Dataw Net, SCE&G this morning acknowledged there is a problem with a blown power insulator affecting this area. That was responsible for power "flickers" and disruption of some services for a few seconds. My electricity flashed on and off a few times this morning. But that was hours after my security system had been disconnected. I'm now wondering if they had other electric "flickers" which might have triggered my alarm in the middle of the night. I'll still have the system checked out before reconnecting. Jill |
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Darned Alarm System!
jmcquown wrote:
Yesterday morning around 10AM my alarm system started wailing. I got up and entered the code to silence it. Meanwhile, I got a call from the gate (SOP), is everything okay? Yes, everything is fine. Well, it seems the system was still sending a trouble signal to the console so they sent someone over to take a look and reset it. It took him about 10 minutes to get it to reset properly. The thing is, Persia *knows* if that alarm goes off and the phone rings immmediately, there will be a knock at the door. A friend discribed it as 'The Beverly Hillbillies' syndrome... every time they heard that mysterious "purty music", aka the doorbell, someone would be knocking on the door. LOL Anyway, around 3:30AM Persia and I were sound asleep when the alarm went off again. I got up and punched in the code. The phone rang. As I was telling the guy there's no fire, no one is hurt, it started wailing again. Oh come on! I said I don't know what's going on, it did this yesterday morning, too. As I was saying that it went off yet again. Grrrr. He said I'm sending someone over to disconnect it so you can get some sleep. Thank you! Meanwhile, Persia knew someone would be coming over. So she went and hid in "her" room. He disconnected the alarm, although he said he really didn't like doing it. Too bad. I have enough trouble sleeping without getting up every time that thing decides to start whooping on a whim. I'm sure your neighbors are happy about it, too! They'll file a report and have the alarm system guys come out to take a look. As I was drifting off to sleep again, Persia rejoined me on the bed. But she remained in alert mode, just waiting for the loud whoop of the alarm, the phone ringing and that knock on the door again... Jill -- Joyce When you finish, you have a complete (you hope) set of characters. So you call it a "character set". And because you're in a funny mood, instead of calling the numeric identifiers "numeric identifiers", you call them "code points". -- Steve Ferg, "Unicode Beginners Introduction for Dummies Made Simple" |
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Darned Alarm System!
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... On 1/9/2014 2:06 PM, MaryL wrote: "jmcquown" wrote in message ... Yesterday morning around 10AM my alarm system started wailing. I got up and entered the code to silence it. Meanwhile, I got a call from the gate (SOP), is everything okay? Yes, everything is fine. Well, it seems the system was still sending a trouble signal to the console so they sent someone over to take a look and reset it. It took him about 10 minutes to get it to reset properly. The thing is, Persia *knows* if that alarm goes off and the phone rings immmediately, there will be a knock at the door. A friend discribed it as 'The Beverly Hillbillies' syndrome... every time they heard that mysterious "purty music", aka the doorbell, someone would be knocking on the door. LOL Anyway, around 3:30AM Persia and I were sound asleep when the alarm went off again. I got up and punched in the code. The phone rang. As I was telling the guy there's no fire, no one is hurt, it started wailing again. Oh come on! I said I don't know what's going on, it did this yesterday morning, too. As I was saying that it went off yet again. Grrrr. He said I'm sending someone over to disconnect it so you can get some sleep. Thank you! Meanwhile, Persia knew someone would be coming over. So she went and hid in "her" room. He disconnected the alarm, although he said he really didn't like doing it. Too bad. I have enough trouble sleeping without getting up every time that thing decides to start whooping on a whim. They'll file a report and have the alarm system guys come out to take a look. As I was drifting off to sleep again, Persia rejoined me on the bed. But she remained in alert mode, just waiting for the loud whoop of the alarm, the phone ringing and that knock on the door again... Jill ~~~~~~~ That happened to me several years ago. In my case, I needed a new battery for the backup system. That might be worth checking when maintenance comes to check yours. I change batteries in various appliances, but I could not change the big batteries in the security system. That required a technician. Fortunately, those batteries last a long time. MaryL Oh, I forgot to say, when the guard was here the first time Wednesday morning he tested the battery. He said it was fine. Besides, I would recognize the periodic beep it makes when the battery is running low. I've had to replace it once. This wasn't at all like a battery warning beep. It was a full scale alarm. It's extremely loud. There is a horn. Oh, and I've been informed via the Dataw Net, SCE&G this morning acknowledged there is a problem with a blown power insulator affecting this area. That was responsible for power "flickers" and disruption of some services for a few seconds. My electricity flashed on and off a few times this morning. But that was hours after my security system had been disconnected. I'm now wondering if they had other electric "flickers" which might have triggered my alarm in the middle of the night. I'll still have the system checked out before reconnecting. Jill ~~~~~~~~~ The backup batteries that come with my security system do not make a beeping sound (quite unlike the batteries with ordinary smoke alarms). The time mine were activated was when we lost power for 7 days following one of the hurricanes. Then the batteries caused an unrelenting, piercing screech. It was almost unbearable, and it was probably much worse for the cats since they have such sensitive hearing. Luckily, I was able to get someone to come in and disconnect it until we had power again. As I said earlier, I can change batteries in most appliances, but these are very large batteries and require special tools. MaryL |
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Darned Alarm System!
On 1/9/2014 6:09 PM, MaryL wrote:
~~~~~~~ That happened to me several years ago. In my case, I needed a new battery for the backup system. That might be worth checking when maintenance comes to check yours. I change batteries in various appliances, but I could not change the big batteries in the security system. That required a technician. Fortunately, those batteries last a long time. MaryL Oh, I forgot to say, when the guard was here the first time Wednesday morning he tested the battery. He said it was fine. Besides, I would recognize the periodic beep it makes when the battery is running low. I've had to replace it once. This wasn't at all like a battery warning beep. It was a full scale alarm. It's extremely loud. There is a horn. Jill ~~~~~~~~~ The backup batteries that come with my security system do not make a beeping sound (quite unlike the batteries with ordinary smoke alarms). The time mine were activated was when we lost power for 7 days following one of the hurricanes. Then the batteries caused an unrelenting, piercing screech. It was almost unbearable, and it was probably much worse for the cats since they have such sensitive hearing. Luckily, I was able to get someone to come in and disconnect it until we had power again. As I said earlier, I can change batteries in most appliances, but these are very large batteries and require special tools. MaryL Wow, I'll bet that was annoying! I'm familiar with the beep noise of low battery in the security system. Similar, as you said, to a smoke alarm battery warning. It beeps often enough and loud enough to get on your nerves. One time when I was cat-sitting the neighbor's alarm started emitting that battery beeping sound. It was annoying ME and I wasn't even there for very long every day. I could only imagine the cats couldn't be enjoying it much when they were inside, either. I called the gate and explained she's out of town. They set a time and I met the guard over there and he swapped out the battery. We *do* have to pay for the alarm batteries but since it wasn't my house they didn't ask me to pay for it. I don't think she ever got a bill for the battery, which, IIRC is about $140. I could change the battery myself, it's just a couple of plugs in the control panel, no special tools required. The battery is about 6 inches square. But since they send a guard over to deliver the battery I figure they may as well install it, too. No resolution (or appointment) with the alarm system guy yet. Persia and I did enjoy a blissful, uninterrupted sleep last night. Jill |
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Darned Alarm System!
On 1/9/2014 11:41 AM, jmcquown wrote:
Yesterday morning around 10AM my alarm system started wailing. I got up and entered the code to silence it. Meanwhile, I got a call from the gate (SOP), is everything okay? Yes, everything is fine. Well, it seems the system was still sending a trouble signal to the console so they sent someone over to take a look and reset it. It took him about 10 minutes to get it to reset properly. The thing is, Persia *knows* if that alarm goes off and the phone rings immmediately, there will be a knock at the door. A friend discribed it as 'The Beverly Hillbillies' syndrome... every time they heard that mysterious "purty music", aka the doorbell, someone would be knocking on the door. LOL Anyway, around 3:30AM Persia and I were sound asleep when the alarm went off again. I got up and punched in the code. The phone rang. As I was telling the guy there's no fire, no one is hurt, it started wailing again. Oh come on! I said I don't know what's going on, it did this yesterday morning, too. As I was saying that it went off yet again. Grrrr. He said I'm sending someone over to disconnect it so you can get some sleep. Thank you! Meanwhile, Persia knew someone would be coming over. So she went and hid in "her" room. He disconnected the alarm, although he said he really didn't like doing it. Too bad. I have enough trouble sleeping without getting up every time that thing decides to start whooping on a whim. They'll file a report and have the alarm system guys come out to take a look. As I was drifting off to sleep again, Persia rejoined me on the bed. But she remained in alert mode, just waiting for the loud whoop of the alarm, the phone ringing and that knock on the door again... Jill That happened to me on my birthday last year and I wasn't even home. My cell phone alerted me first with a text message then the security company called and since it was my secondary phone number, they had to alert the police. I had to leave my dinner party and go home to meet the police there. And of course, they never showed up. It turned out that one of the sensors needed a battery replacement. -- CAPSLOCK–Preventing Login Since 1980. |
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