Electronic Alarms and Home Security Devices - First Alert FA 540/550 key pad programming
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ChiSoxFan
06-16-09, 12:22 PM
Does anyone know if you can program through a First Alert keypad - so that if an alarm goes off - after a certain amount of time (say 5 mins) the alarm automatically is silenced? Sort of like a car alarm? This is not a monitored system and is used as a deterrent.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
MrRonFL
06-16-09, 07:07 PM
The keypad model is not the system. What model control is the keypad(s) an interface to?
That said:
A standard of feature of nearly all alarms (First Alert panels are a variant of the Honeywell/Ademco models) is the bell time out. On pretty much anything made in the last 15 years, the bell times out somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes by default.
You can generally change that duration but you have to know the system model to know which program version is being used.
That said:
A standard of feature of nearly all alarms (First Alert panels are a variant of the Honeywell/Ademco models) is the bell time out. On pretty much anything made in the last 15 years, the bell times out somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes by default.
You can generally change that duration but you have to know the system model to know which program version is being used.