My home alarm has the trouble light on and it beeps every few seconds. how do i cut the beep off permanently?

Question

and why is the trouble light on? i have a dsc 5500 8 zone keypad.

Answer 1

che battery

Answer 2

one of your zone detectors may be  faulty, the system knows all are there but one may have quit working.

Answer 3

Is the back up battery dead or almost?  You might check that first.

Answer 4

fix the reason for the trouble light that will stop the beep

Answer 5

To silence the alarm:

ARM AND DISARM  OR PRESS *

To find out what the trouble is

PRESS * then 2. A number will appear in the display.

1 means service may be required.

2 means Loss of Electrical Power.

3 means Telephone Line Fault.

4 means Failure to Communicate.

5 means Wireless Sensor or Zone Fault

6 means Wireless Sensor or Zone Tamper

7 means Wireless Sensor or Zone Low Battery (Service required)

8 means Loss of Time & Date - Needs to be reset

If you have any more problems, you can email me directly.

Answer 6

It doesn't matter what your keypad is, it matter what type of panel you have. I wish you stated here becuase the company I work for solely deals with DSC.

The most common way to silence a keypad with a DSC panel is to press the # sign.

But there could be many reason why that trouble light is on. Could be something simple like loss of time or a low battery or could be something more serious like a communication problem. Again I wish you stated your panel type I could have been alot more helpful. With most DSC panels pressing * (star) then "2" it will show you the trouble. Do you have a message screen on your keypad or is it only lights? By pressing *2 it should show you your trouble condition, depending on your system and keypad it may only show you a # or light up a #. In which case you will have to speak with your monitoring station or consult your user manual for more specification. Or you could just e-mail me and I'd be able to help. If you don't have your user manual you can go to www.dsc.com. They have every manual online in PDF format.

Feel free to contact me from my profile page with anymore questions. :)