Wireless burglar alarm
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Wireless burglar alarm
Are the wireless burglar alarms any good?
The market is flooded with them at the moment which would suggest they are ok.
Has anyone any experience of them?
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The market is flooded with them at the moment which would suggest they are ok.
Has anyone any experience of them?
Thanks
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I had one fitted about 2 years ago.
It was fitted by a proper alarm company and up to now I've only had a problem with the back door sensor.
It's been replaced and now works ok.
Obviously it takes about half the time to fit and hardly any disruption to carpets/floors etc.
There are just a couple of cables from the main control panel that go to the keypad and a cable from the control panel up to the bell box outside.
Really the only things that are wireless are the room sensors.
Mine has an option fitted that will ring my mobile if the alarm is activated so I can make a quick dash home with my baseball bat
Overall I'm quite impressed with it but I have been told the batteries for the sensors are fairly pricey and last on average 3 years-ish.
Are you planning a DIY fit?
I'd thought about it but wanted to make certain I wouldn't get false alarms so entrusted a quality firm to do it.
Not cheap, but it gives us peace of mind.
HTH a bit
It was fitted by a proper alarm company and up to now I've only had a problem with the back door sensor.
It's been replaced and now works ok.
Obviously it takes about half the time to fit and hardly any disruption to carpets/floors etc.
There are just a couple of cables from the main control panel that go to the keypad and a cable from the control panel up to the bell box outside.
Really the only things that are wireless are the room sensors.
Mine has an option fitted that will ring my mobile if the alarm is activated so I can make a quick dash home with my baseball bat
Overall I'm quite impressed with it but I have been told the batteries for the sensors are fairly pricey and last on average 3 years-ish.
Are you planning a DIY fit?
I'd thought about it but wanted to make certain I wouldn't get false alarms so entrusted a quality firm to do it.
Not cheap, but it gives us peace of mind.
HTH a bit
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If you mean an alarm that doesn't get any faults or false alarm then I fitted a Visonic Powermax+ just to the garage to complement the original hard wired house system and has been fine.
Due to poorly thought out design of the hard wired system, the Visionic has had sensors and trips added to very easily by myself.
Nick
Due to poorly thought out design of the hard wired system, the Visionic has had sensors and trips added to very easily by myself.
Nick
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Had mine for over a year now,completly wireless,including bellbox.Easy enough to install yourself,and also has an autodialer.Never had no problems so far.
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We have one also. just covers all doors/windows and a PIR in the kitchen but not one in the lounge as have the parrots in there. Do have another PIR still not sure where to fit that yet. maybe go in the garage at some point.
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