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Overview
Home alarm systems provide great protection from intruders. A piercing sound warns off potential wrongdoers. Most home alarm systems instantly notify monitors if the home's security is breached. These monitors call the homeowner. If the homeowner cannot provide the proper code, police are dispatched. Unfortunately, the same security features that ward off intruders can also trip up homeowners. Home alarm systems are notoriously easy to set off.
Tripping a Home Alarm System
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Step 1
Arm your home alarm system. In most cases, this means punching in a password and pressing a few buttons. Open the front or back door of your house. The alarm will go off. Monitors will be notified via your telephone line. Within seconds, you should receive a phone call from your alarm company. Typically, all doors leading to the outside are connected to your home alarm system. Opening any one of them will initiate the response sequence. -
Step 2
Open a window. You should hear a piercing wail. Your alarm is going off and its monitors are being contacted. Most home alarm systems will trigger the instant a window is opened. The window does not have to be opened all the way. In fact, if your window is open only a crack--at either top or bottom--you will not be able to turn on the whole system. The same goes for glass and sliding balcony or terrace doors. Any and every opening is normally connected to the alarm system. -
Step 3
Turn off your alarm. Re-arm it and leave the house. Stay out for awhile and return. Open the door and do not turn off the alarm. Your home alarm system should be set to give you a short period of time to punch in your password and disarm the system. If you do nothing the alarm will sound. If you repeatedly enter the wrong code, you will also trip the alarm.
- Skill: Easy
- Tip: Review your home alarm system manual. Many systems permit different combinations of open or shut windows and doors. Set your system correctly, and you will not trip the alarm if you keep some of these open while your are in the house.
- Warning:
- Never hide your password in an obvious location outside your home. Better to trip the alarm than to give access to dangerous intruders.
