HELP WITH DSC 2500 NO SIREN

Try removing the wires to your siren and connecting them directly across the battery. If the siren is good, it will work. If it clicks, you have a speaker and not a siren. To test the alarm for function, put a volt meter across the terminals where you removed the siren wires and activate the alarm. You should get 12 volts or so. If you have voltage, then the siren is bad.

Yes, any name brand 4 wire smoke will be fine.

Allan

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Thanks for the prompt response Allan, i have just tried what you said, in fact the Panel Wire connection to the (Siren) says SPKR. I tried the wires directly on the Battery and i hear no sound at all, no click, The Speaker is possibly out of earshot but im pretty sure i would have heard a click !! Im going to have to crawl up there and physically find the Speaker and check it out before i go and buy a Voltage Tester. Ill keep you posted !!

I sent my kid up in the attic and he retreived the Speaker(a Megaphone Type Thing) after punching a large hole in the garage ceiling !!! now i presume the Speaker is Bad because theres no response even when i connect it direct to the battery

If it makes one loud pop, you *had* a speaker. :^)

Also, if you have a VOM (most voltmeters are VOMs), you can check the wires leading to the speaker for resistance. If it's a speaker or a combination of speakers it will usually show between

If it's a siren, you'll usually get a low resistance in one direction and what looks like an open circuit or a very high resistance when you reverse the poles.

Yep, or the wire is broken.

That's a good way to trash a speaker.

OK Awesome, i have tested the Siren output connections with a Votage Tester and it gives a 12v charge when tripped but no Sound at all, absolutely nothing !! Ive banged it tapped it still nothing!! So it must be the Siren gone Bad, Right ??????? Im gonna need a Drywall installer next !!

Too cheap to bother with ebay. Just go to Radio Shack, Fry's or any other electronic store.

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After what seemed like 300 phone calls im going to pick up a Siren later today, Are there no Home Alarm parts stores anywhere in Orlando ??? For just under $20. I hope its the right one though and i hope it works, Radio Shack dont have Alarm Siren Horns, neither do Home Depot, Lowes or Ace Hardware, Radio Shack has some Security Stuff but its some Cheap Chinese Stuff !! Thanks again !!!!

Any response from your kid when he fell through the ceiling?

if he used a system battery probably yah.

| > Yes, any name brand 4 wire smoke will be fine. | >

| > Allan | | | | That's a good way to trash a speaker. | |

with a speaker there is no response when it is hooked to a battery. so your test proved you either have a good speaker, a bad speaker or a bad self contained siren.

I carry a wide array of sirens in my online store. We even drop-ship some of them from a warehouse in Orlando.

You carry nothing in your "online store". It's a web based business. How's the weather in Bahia, by the way??

Translation: You "drop ship" everything and from the number of complaints at the BBB, I'd say you're not very successful at that either.