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Disabling Hone Alarm
Anonymous user 21/06/2026 - 9.56 AM
I want to disable and turn off my home alarm permanently. Can i remove the fuse from the mains spur leading to the box so I cut the Power to it and then let the battery run down over a few days /weeks. Would that ultimately disable it? If I have a power cut the alarm does not trigger so i guess this will be the same?
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3 Answers
Data System Services
Rating: 5 out of 5
Yes it will disable the alarm but it will dry the battery and need replacement of the battery when you switch on again
Answered2 June 2026
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Anonymous user
One important warning though: when the battery finally runs flat, the external sounder (the box outside) can go off as a low-power or tamper signal. To avoid that, the best approach is to have both batteries removed: the main panel battery and the battery inside the external sounder box.
With mains off and both batteries out, the system stays fully dead with no risk of it sounding. If it's a monitored or older system, worth a quick check that there's no tamper alarm that needs disarming first.
Kyle - Vertex AV
Answered8 June 2026
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Grandrew security systems
Rating: 4.7 out of 5
This is not the purpose of the site to tell you how to do the job yourself, what you require is a professional to make the system electrically safe, something the amateurs commenting above, may indeed learn one day to their cost as they have no idea, no doubt you will in time get a professional in to carry out the work
Answered21 June 2026
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