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    Replaced outside siren- connecting 'Hold-off +' makes alarm go off!

    Gawd, thanks for this - it's a family friend who I understand has done many alarms in his time. This alarm has been operating fine for 16 years so this should be a simple case of replacing the 4 wires - so annoyed I've lost the original photo, have looked through deleted pics too but no luck! I...
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    Replaced outside siren- connecting 'Hold-off +' makes alarm go off!

     The panel... and the wiring centre... Hope this helps?? Thanks
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    Replaced outside siren- connecting 'Hold-off +' makes alarm go off!

    Hi... OK, today I connected as you mentioned Richard – swapped hold -offs about so red to neg hold-off, black to pos hold-off and no joy. I even tried swapping trigger and return about reverting hold offs to correct colours. I've left as it was with pos hold off disconnected. I've taken photos...
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    Replaced outside siren- connecting 'Hold-off +' makes alarm go off!

    OK thanks, sounds like this is what's happened as I deleted the photo of the rear (siren I replaced) siren's wiring by mistake so copied that of the front one! So sounds like I need to connect  what I have as the tamper rtn (as on front siren) to the neg hold-off, and presumably the neg hold off...
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    Replaced outside siren- connecting 'Hold-off +' makes alarm go off!

    2nd box - one at front, one at rear We have one at front and rear of house - loads of houses do, how can this be overloading? It's been working absolutely fine for the 16 years we've had it fitted - it's only the fact that one siren has corroded that I've needed to replace it.  Do you mean...
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    Replaced outside siren- connecting 'Hold-off +' makes alarm go off!

    Thanks, but I've copied the wiring from the 2nd box -  the only ones that could possibly wrong are trigger and return - black is hold-off, red is hold-on...? 
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    Replaced outside siren- connecting 'Hold-off +' makes alarm go off!

    Hi I replaced an old alarm box/siren yesterday - sea air rusted a few components and it was triggering tamper randomly, a few times a day (or night!). To make sure it was the box at fault I've had the box off for 6 weeks with no problem. I bought a Honeywell 8EP420 - ADE RESON8. I took a photo...
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