Elk Alarm time-out

[BaduFamily]

HI Folks,
 
Last week we had an incident where it looks like someone wiggled the back patio doors hard enough to trigger the magnetic sensor. This is run to an Elk M1, which dutifully commenced to sound the siren and all associated things. Nothing bad happened other than the duitiful neighbors and police poked around, took note, and left.
 
However the neighbors reported that the siren didn't time-out. Rather, it did time out and then it fired up again while they were standing there.
 
the M1 isn't under monitoring.
 
I was under the impression that the M1 would shut the siren off after a predetermined period. I believe this is a legal requirement.
 
Am I mis-understanding something?
 
FWIW this M1 also has dropped into madly chiming now and again - not full alarm but the sound you get when there is a system fault which needs acknowledgement.
 
 

 

[mikefamig]

HI Folks,
 
Last week we had an incident where it looks like someone wiggled the back patio doors hard enough to trigger the magnetic sensor. This is run to an Elk M1, which dutifully commenced to sound the siren and all associated things. Nothing bad happened other than the duitiful neighbors and police poked around, took note, and left.
 
However the neighbors reported that the siren didn't time-out. Rather, it did time out and then it fired up again while they were standing there.
 
the M1 isn't under monitoring.
 
I was under the impression that the M1 would shut the siren off after a predetermined period. I believe this is a legal requirement.
 
Am I mis-understanding something?
 
FWIW this M1 also has dropped into madly chiming now and again - not full alarm but the sound you get when there is a system fault which needs acknowledgement.

 
I haven't had any experience with your alarm shutdown problem but I do have an M1 that has a history of just chiming an open zone at random. I am working with Elk tech support to correct the problem. Again I don't have an answer but will let you know if I do learn anything.
 
Mike.

 

[WayneW]

However the neighbors reported that the siren didn't time-out. Rather, it did time out and then it fired up again while they were standing there.

 
Did it do this multiple times?  i.e continuously until you disarmed it?
 
Any chance the patio door was wiggled such that the mag sensor triggered a second alarm?

 

[Del91574]

There are not timeouts set as default from what I remember.

There are UL requirements, but nothing binding to force a manufacturer to adopt specific settings.
 
Generally burg is around 4-10 minutes depending on panel and fire should not timeout.
 
Given your other information, it sounds like your wiring or device is suspect if the zone is not stable. Could also be band-aided by the response time, if your panel has too short of one.

 

[BaduFamily]

Thanks, all