How To Replace Your Alarm System Battery

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Step 1Monitored Customers — have your system & pass

numbers ready & call the monitoring station (519-663-2036

or 1-800-333-7721) & ask them to put your system on test.

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Step 2Open the control panel door (usually located in the basement near the electrical panel or in a closet).

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Step 2.2If locked, look on your keychain or look nearby/on top

of the Control Panel for the key.

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Step 2.2 cont…If you can’t locate the panel key, contact Alarmtech (519-

434-3996) to borrow a key or get instr. on other solutions.

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Step 3Remove the leads from the battery—you may have

to wiggle the battery leads to get them off.

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Step 3.2Hold the wires so they do not touch (there is not an

electrical hazard if they do, but a fuse could short out).

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Step 4Remove battery from the Control Panel & set it aside to be recycled. Do not discard with household waste.

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Step 4.2Alarmtech will recycle your battery for you! Drop it off

at our office (549 Huron St., London, ON / 8:00am–4:30pm) or leave it outside the door during off-hours.

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Step 5Remove any plastic protective covers, that may be on the battery terminals to expose the metal terminals.

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Step 5.2Place the battery into the Control Panel and attach the

black lead to the black terminal.

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Step 5.3Attach the red lead to the red terminal.

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Step 5.4Close the Control Panel door and lock it.

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Step 6Proceed to the keypad & acknowledge the tamper alarm

from opening the control panel door. Most panels will

need your code entered & off then enter your then code

and & off a second time.

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Step 7Call the Monitoring Station (519-663-2036 or 1-800-333-7721)

& remove the system from test & confirm the panel

tamper has reset.

Congrats you have changed your battery!

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The keypad may still display ‘low battery’ for several hours. You can use the system as per

normal while the battery charges.

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If after several hours the ‘low battery’ does not

clear, please arm & disarm the system twice in

a row & if it still does not clear please call

at 519-434-3996 / 1-800-461-5800.