Ademco 5806 or 5808

Jim Rojas

Sorry...5808 is the correct model you need. The 5809 is the wireless thermostat.

Jim Rojas

Bob,

The low battery problem is comon with those older detectors. The way to make them clear is to take the batteries out of the unit and use a wire or something metal to short across the battery terminals in the detector. This will discharge the capacitor that triggers the low battery circuit. Once you have done this put the batteries back in the detector, replace it on the mount and enter your code and off twice in a row.

The best thing you could do is replace the detectors, but this trick will get you by until you can get new ones.

James

Thanks, that's what I needed to Know...

And use the recommended brand batteries...they're embossed in the battery compartment. I had a big argument with a client once - he insisted that Walgreen's 50 cent batteries should work....yah but only for about 2 months.

Bob Siss> Thanks, that's what I needed to Know...

Using cheep batteries makes no sense, we buy Duracell's, or better yet the industrial Duracell's.

Why would I want to drag the ladder out more often than I need to, or worse, have the "low battery" alarm go off at 3am as it always does.

This guy was an idiot. Rather than put in Duracells every year or so (in only two smokes), he paid me over 300 bucks to install two wired smokes...difficult runs. I didn't get out my calculator and show him how many years of batteries he coulda bought for 300 bucks - he was too stuborn to believe me anyway, he still insists the smokes were bad (not).

Just so you know there aren't many manufacturers of batteries these days so it is possible those cheapie batteries were made in the same factory that also make Duracells

Not from the looks of these puppies! They were cheep cheep cheep.

It doesn't matter, its kinda like buying a laptop, since there are only 3 companies that actually make laptops that Compaq I have may be from the same place as the guy with a Dell.

Really? Dint know that.

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We buy laptops from the same manufacturer in Taiwan that builds "Dell" branded ones. And Mark's right... There are only three (and they're all in Taiwan).