Arrowhead Alarm making a random single chrip sound every 30-40 seconds

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#284233 9-Apr-2021 07:36

A newly installed Arrowhead Elite alarm randomly starts a single chirp every 30-40 seconds. Does this for between 10-20 mins. Has happened a couple of times now at different times of the day.

Anyone aware and/or have any suggestions to stop it happening?

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Juicytree

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#2689715 9-Apr-2021 08:54

You don't say what sort of an alarm it is designed for. If it's a PIR for detecting movement it may be a mouse popping its head out of its hole regularly but I suspect it's a fire alarm with a nearly flat battery.

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#2689718 9-Apr-2021 09:15

If it's a standard house alarm, it sounds like what we experience every couple of years, usually starting at about 3am.

It's the low battery warning for the back-up battery in our case.

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#2689745 9-Apr-2021 10:11

Yep, probably time to replace the backup battery.

VSMT

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#2689864 9-Apr-2021 11:23

Thank you all - I suspected as much, as it sounds exactly like a smoke alarm low battery alert. Bloody thing did go off at 3am!

Appreciate the feedback - cheers

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#2689900 9-Apr-2021 12:13

VSMT:

Bloody thing did go off at 3am!

That's part of the design, aligned to piss you off the most 😂

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#2689944 9-Apr-2021 14:05

A newly installed alarm should have a new backup battery. They are typically good for about 3-5 years.

If the battery has failed it may just be the battery, but it could be a faulty panel not charging it. Replace with a 12v 7ah battery and see.

If its not the panel battery, are your detectors / sirens wired or wireless? If wireless, could be a lost signal to the device (check batteries in wireless devices).

Have you made any changes, removed copper phone line for example? At 3am, it could be the panel trying to dial out for a comms check and failing (even if you cancelled a monitoring contract with a provider, your alarm will still try and communicate with them, they just ignore the signal), this will require a tech to take dialer out of programming.

If you have lost all power to the alarm system (and backup battery died), it could be asking to update / insert date and time (usually programming via keypad).

Lots of possibilities

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#2690128 9-Apr-2021 17:41

sen8or:
If the battery has failed it may just be the battery, but it could be a faulty panel not charging it. Replace with a 12v 7ah battery and see.

And in particular, if you're not familiar with these, 12V 7AH are the AA of lead-acid batteries, you can get them all over the place and they're not expensive.

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#2690167 9-Apr-2021 18:54

Newly installed - have you contacted the installer?

Daynger

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#2690493 10-Apr-2021 11:38

Its probably letting you know the system has a fault.

Check your user manual on how to see what fault it is, if it has been freshly installed call the installer so he can come figure it out.

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#2690716 10-Apr-2021 20:58

a new AAP alarm wont have a battery fault for 3 to 5 years if the panel battery is new, push mem to go through the faults if there are any, the single chirp with that time window will be a battery powered smoke detector, seperate from the AAP alarm

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#2690722 10-Apr-2021 21:29

Yes indeed - that's exactly what it was. Just a complete coincidence that the chirp from the smoke alarm started the same day the alarm was installed.

Nothing to do with the alarm!