Low Battery / Battery Test Failure
Low Battery / Battery Test Failure
Your alarm system battery supplies backup power to operate your alarm system during a power outage. All alarm panels operate on mains power and contain a back-up battery, and different manufacturers use different batteries in the alarm panel.
How to Know If You Need a New Battery?
The first sign of alarm battery failure is usually a beeping keypad. The beeping or chirping will often occur at the same time. This is because many panels do their automatic battery test every 24 hours. Less commonly, a low battery condition can cause false alarms at random times throughout the day.
Almost all alarm panels will also display a keypad trouble light to indicate a problem. Keypads with LCD displays will print out “low batt”, “LB”, "Fault", "Service", "Triangle with exclamation icon", or something similar. Keypads with LED’s may need you to press a button or two for the lights to show the trouble condition.
Almost all alarm panels will also display a keypad trouble light to indicate a problem. Keypads with LCD displays will print out “low batt”, “LB”, "Fault", "Service", "Triangle with exclamation icon", or something similar. Keypads with LED’s may need you to press a button or two for the lights to show the trouble condition.
Which battery type do I need?
You can find this out in a number of ways.
- Use your system type to find out what batteries you need.- Refer to your user manual.- Open the panel and check battery type
NOTE: There are times where it is possible the backup battery is fine but the alarm system battery charging circut is malfuctioning and not able to sufficiently charge the battery, if this is the case a new alarm system control board may be required. Contact Chameleon Security Services on 1800 065 664 to book a qualified security technician.