No Power to Home Alarm Control Panel

[bunnspieshop]

I bought a house that already had an alarm fitted, it was a CPF2 (Tunstall I think), anyway I needed to replace some sockets so turned off all power, when I turned it back on the alarm sounded and would not switch off with the code. To turn the sound off, I disconnected the +12V & 0V in the bottom of the control panel. When trying to reconnect, I now have no power to the control panel. I have ordered a new control panel, but wanted to know how to ensure there will be a live feed to the new control panel. What do I need to check that could have caused the old panel to have no power?

[ericmark]

Something is wrong. Alarms have normally got two batteries. A large on in panel and a smaller one in the bell box. On losing power to the panel the battery in the panel should power the alarm for quite a few hours, once power is restored nothing should need to be done.

If the power is not restored in time then as the panel battery goes flat the bell should sound. By law limited to 15 mins. Again on power restore all should auto run although possible in alarmed mode.

So there seems to be more wrong than just the panel.

[bunnspieshop]

Sorry, maybe I used the wrong wording. The main panel providing power was not touched. By panel, I mean the control panel in the hallway that I type the code into to set/unset the alarm.

[ericmark]

I have installed many alarm systems. There are a few common factors but the idea of having something different means it is less likely to be bypassed so each alarm company has there own ideas of how to wire and this is good. Standard with alarms is bad. Having something which is not standard is good. It is unlike any other branch of electrics.

There are standard methods but the last thing anyone would do is to talk about them on an open forum. I would hope any sysop would delete any posts giving detailed information. I am sure you can see that this is just not something which should be talked about on an open forum.

There is really only one option. Ask your system maintainer to correct the problem.