Powering Down Your System 

Thank you for the great video, my ADT alarm has been going off for the last 2 hours and this saved the evening. Nearly paid £200 quid for an emergency electrician. Took me less than 2 minutes to disarm.

One of theeeeeee best well explained videos ever!!!! Thank you!!!!

Thank you! Old system from previous owners woke us up at 3 am and couldn't find the dang transformer. Lifesaver!

RU-vid has a lot of helpful videos but this is, hands-down THE BEST!!! It is so clear and easy to follow. Thank you!!!!

Thank you. This was extremely helpful. It's 4am here and I've been trying to figure this thing out for about an hour. This was a life saver.

I’m a 67 year old women and in no time I was able to disconnect my annoying alarm that was beeping almost every night at 3 am . Thank you so much!

70 year old here this is a great video. I am hardwiring my Ring alarm and this video is saving me $$$.

I will add my thanks. I had discontinued my service with a major company, and several months later started getting a bf (backup failure) alarm. I particularly appreciated your reassurance that I wasn't going to electrocute myself or blow up my house. Philosophy majors find the real world sort of intimidating.

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼thank you finally stopped the beeping that started happening every night for 3-4 hours 🙏🏼🥲

Was awakened in the middle of the night by a loud, constant beeping sound coming from an unused alarm in the house (low battery). These instructions worked like a charm. Thank you!

Your instructions were so easy to understand and I had our system disconnected in no time. We've lived in this house for 3 years and never had the alarm system activated. We thought one of our smoke alarms was beeping and a battery needed changing, but finally figured out what the beeping was when the alarm started going off. Boy was that loud! Thanks again for a great video!

Your video saved hair on my head. I had this old security system beeping non stop for days and weeks and I had no ways of turning it off as I didn't have the code. Now, after following your video, I was able to completely shut it off by disconnecting power source...I am in great peace as I am typing this comment! Thank you!!!

I filed my user manual under "Science Fiction" this was a great help.

OMG ! - our alarm system (not monitored) has been driving us mad for a couple of years - beeps at 1030 at night every night. Back up battery issue I suspect. Now disconnected back up battery and pulled out 12v main wire. Thank you Jordan you bloody legend !. 🙏

The most useful RU-vid video ever! Very clear instructions. Solved a long-standing problem easily.

Just as pretty much all the videos said this is a lifesaver!! Go directly to the source (usually a small box in the premises) and disconnect the alarm by removing the battery or unplugging the plug

Thank you. The alarm company asked me to pay $99 for this procedure. Your video saved that money.

That's an awesome step by step procedure with alternative. My system is acting up. I am going to try to power it down using this procedure. THANK YOU!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Had a Brinks system not used in years. Following a power outage of 4 days, the low battery alarm started beeping at all hours of the day. Disconnecting the battery did not solve problem. This worked! Thanks for your very clear instructions.

Thanks man! I appreciate it. I’ve been hearing that stupid low battery reminder for 3 weeks now! I was over resetting it

This is a great presentation, one of the very best RU-vid help videos I've ever seen. Because I could not locate the transformer, the bit about how to disconnect the power within the control panel was a real godsend. Thank you!

Lifesaver video! The previous owners had the system installed, and we were not subscribed and the alarms went off one day.. frantically was trying to figure out, and this video really helped and I could disable the system! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for your video. I contacted ADT for the same information on an old system in a home we purchased and they were no help. You have saved us so much!

holy moly - this guy from the 70s is the bomb! I live in Mexico, just moved into a house with a DSC alarm and it was sounding off. This vid is the third one I watched and it worked!

This video is a life saver. Great directions and our alternative per ADT was to purchase a new system as the system in the house we purchased is no longer serviced. Really appreciate your help!

Thanks Jordan, today your video had saved me the day of disaster. I was cleaning my alarm keypad but by the time I put it back, the alarm sounded without end. But by following your instruction, I was able to disarm the alarm complete and finished my clean up with a happy ending...Thanks again.

Thank You sooooo much for this wonderful video. I’ve been living in my home for 15 years and have NOT used the alarm system in over 10years. When the power goes out, the alarm goes off, it IS VERY ANNOYING when that happens. Thanks to this video I was able to easily( in less than 3 mins) disconnect the power!!!

This information was a sanity saver!! I recently purchased home with old system that I did not set up and the thing kept beeping @ all hours of day/ night. Thank you! thank you!

I’ve used MANY youtube videos for help but this one was by far the most helpful. I am immensely grateful that you posted this!! Thank you. It was perfectly prepared.

Thank you! ADT was absolutely useless when it came time to provide this information

Jordan, thank you! This is the best video on how to fully stop alarms. None of the other videos I watched went into details of opening the box and disabling the wires (if you have no external plug, which I don't). Great stuff!

You've helped me twice. My poor dog has PTSD and we've turned off the alarm twice for him. ❤️ 🐾

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!! This is one of the most helpful videos on RU-vid.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now I know how to do this. Excellent video.

I disconnected the main backup battery and pulled the transformer plug on my ADT system. I even pulled the backup battery in the cellphone unit , and the system was still running!! Thanks to this video, I removed the red wire on the left end of the buss in the panel, and it finally went dead! Where that source of power is, I have not a clue. That will be a quest for the future. Thanks SecurityCentralinc!!

After two years of living in a house with an alarm system we don't use, we suddenly started hearing random beeping. Luckily, this video showed me exactly what I needed to do to disconnect the system once and for all. Thank you!

Seriously perfect. Both myself and my grandmother thank you. And appreciate the heads up about the low voltage and a potential slight spark.

Sir-Thank you! My alarm went off for 3.5 hours after a power surge at 1AM. MY DOGS & ME WERE GOING CRAZY.Central Monitoring tech was of NO assistance. While I have about 30 wires and my system is hard-wired, YOUR VIDEO SAVED ME! GOT IT ON THE FIRST TRY! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!

Jordan, you rock!!! This video saved my sanity! I wish I had talked to someone with your technical knowledge at Brink’s earlier today! Thanks!

This video just saved me. I was woken up at 11pm by a system from the house’s previous owner, which had not done anything in the previous four months.

Great video. Well presented. Very helpful. I was dealing with an older alarm system that I inherited when I bought my house. I never even knew the passcode and it was going off from time to time which was very annoying. This method of de-installation / powering down was very helpful.

Many thanks! Your description of the power supply helped me to locate it easily.

Omg thank you! I wanted to cry this morning bc the alarm has been intermittently blaring for 48 hours aka no sleep.

this was so helpful. After a power cut the keypad was beeping and keeping us from sleeping. this solved all our problems.

This is so helpful! The beeps was bugging the day lights out of us. Thank you so much! We really appreciate it

Words can't express how grateful I am that you could help me solve this 'home owner blues'. Tonight we will get some sleep. I don't understand why this was not done in 2011 when we bought this house and did not subscribe to the service and the company turned it off.

Thank you! It's 3am and the beeping from our old system was driving us crazy!

Thank you so much. This helped me so much from going insane from an alarm system that I inherited with the house. Your video is beyond awesome!!!

Excellent video, I had zero satisfaction with ADT as to how to power down nor would they send out a tech to power down my/their system. I had my ADT system powered down in 3 minutes. Thank you!

Thank you very much. Worked for my old ADT security system. No more annoying beeping!! We don't use this security system anymore because we are trying to cut down on bills...

Thank you for this upload. Bought a house with an unused ADT system that announces which door is opening very loudly and I have a newborn baby so you can see where this caused issues. Finally can go into the garage without the alarm system waking up the baby.

Oh my gosh!! You saved our family from a sleepless night! I couldn’t find the transformer anywhere, although I know I’ve seen it, so went in with the screwdriver. I feel so good about myself tonight 😂

Thank you 😊 you save my sleep 💤. I HEARD THE SOUND 7 MONTHS UNTIL TODAY I DISCONNECTED .

After my mom's death I no longer needed the alarm system. It was quite costly--$50 a month. I cancelled my service and was wondering how to disconnect the system. Thank you! I did not realize it was that easy! My security system is over 10 years old.

Thank you, this was a huge help and saved us $115

Thank you so much for this video, we haven't used our alarm for quite a while, the other day it went off for no reason and i couldn't remember the code to switch it off, anyway it did stop after quite a while. Because we dont use it anymore i thought i would be a good idea to just turn the system off, i found the box and unplugged the wall socket, but i noticed that the keypad was still active and also the strobe light out side of the house was flashing (no noise though),, ive been serching the internet the last 2 days as i did not know how to turn the strobe light off, after watching this video i disconected both terminals from the batttery and it worked a treat,,, the panel was not active at all and the strobe light was off! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Best video I've seen in my life. I was about to go nuts from a beeping old unit.

Thank you so much for sharing this video! 😁 This worked for my old C&K securitech system. I can finally go back to sleep now!

Thank you! You got me out of a crisis here, but not before I basically ripped the main keypad off the wall. Alas. Grateful to have silence back, and without doing any more damage than that. 🙃 🙂

I was only minutes away from shooting myself in the head until I watched this video and finally KILLED that dam alarm for the final time!

You are an excellent teacher. Thank you.

Thanks for giving us the information we so desperately needed. thank you.

I used this you tube tip on my alarm and it worked like a charm

Thank god for this video! Inherited ADT system started going beep crazy, and ADT Customer DisService was not helpful. I figured out the backup battery disconnect but could not find the main transformer, it must be in the attic. Anyway disconnecting the left terminal wires WORKED!!! Appreciate this information.....

Thank you!! We had an old ADT system that we had cancelled a while back and it was beeping randomly (late at night) for low battery/sensor faults. This took care of the problem in less than 5 minutes!

Best video ... I was looking for this video from long time. Solved my 6 months trouble in 5 min.

Thank you so much. Been struggling with this thing since 01:30am

THANK YOU!!! Life saver! Feel like I own my house again.

Thank you so much this was very helpful

You are a great help! Thanks for this video

Very helpful for my old security system. 👍🏼🤴🏽

Very helpful how-to video. Thanks for recording and sharing this!

ADT help line was effing useless. Thank YOU so very much. Now I don’t have to deal with annoying beeps all the time.

Thanks very much! My electricity went out because of hurricane Ian, when it came back on my ADT system that I thought was offline went crazy and wouldn't respond to any of the codes. Because I don't subscribe to ADT, I never had a use for the system and have wanted to know how to completely disable it, thanks again.

This video was super helpful to me. Thank you!

my left ear enjoyed this

Outstanding. Step by step process was great!

You saved my sanity, as well!

Thank you! A 30 year Brinks --> ADT customer and they were totally useless!

Thanks a lot for your video, Jordan. It was very helpful.

A perfect RU-vid video. Thanks.

Thank you so much, finally found how to stop the beeps

Great vid, bailed me out of a crazy alarm in the middle of the night.

Thank you !!! I bought a flat and it had an alarm system installed that was disabled but it was beeping randomly ! finally I made that thing stop !

Perfect! Thanks so much. This worked beautifully!

Just what I needed, thanks!

Thank you so much for this video!

IT was very helpful. Thank you so much.

thank you so much, very helpful.

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed!

Thankyou. Very helpful.

Thanks sir! This helped me in powering down Alarm.

Thanks so much for the video. it's really helpful

Yes thank u I needed that alternate way!!!

Great presentation and presenter.

Extremely helpful video!! Thanks!

Very helpful advice and it worked!

Muchisimas gracias, las instrucciones fueron claras y precisas, excelente video.

Thank you so much. Solved my problem.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!! this was a BIG HELP