Honeywell 5808W3: Changing the Battery

hey DIYs I'm George at alarm grid today we're gonna be going over how to replace the battery for a 5808w3 now these batteries use one cr123 lithium battery and with these batteries you'll actually be notified 30 days before the battery actually goes into the battery actually dies so within the 30 days the panel will actually let you know at 30 days exactly that the that the battery has is starting to run low and that you do need to replace it that gives you up to a whole month to get a new cr123a lithium battery and replace it now in order to do that you're probably gonna have this mounted already in the home so the back plate is already mounted on the ceiling or on the wall all you need to do is twist the top half counterclockwise now if you already have it programmed to you into your system which you probably already do it's gonna throw up a tamper on your alarm system usually the alarm system will say tamper whatever you have the label dies I believe I have the label that's a halt smoke detector so right now on the lyric screen you'll see it says tamper three hallway smoke detector that's because I took the cover from the back plate off to stop this tamper right now there's no way to stop it actually because you have not fixed the issue in order to clear that tamper you have to place the cover back on make sure you fix the situation or assess the situation the tamper which means you have to put the actual sensor back on the back plate and then you have to disarm using the master code I'll show you how to do that after we replace the battery now if you have a low battery the easiest way to do it is go to the pot go to the positive side pull out the positive side first so that it doesn't get stuck on the lip as soon as you pull that out it should just come right out you're gonna go ahead and grab your new cr123 battery again negative side in first push the bottom half in and put that in right there it'll throw in another tamper since you just powered it back up it's letting you know that it's still in a tamper state now something I didn't do which you guys should do whenever you're replacing the battery you want to wait at least 30 minutes 30 seconds to 1 minute before you replace that battery the reason for that being is you want to go ahead and give it give the sensor the little metal slots here you want to give it time just to dissipate right so you want to give it a couple of seconds just so that you can refresh and when you put that new battery in a13 any little battery signals in if you put it in fast and then you close it up and it's still giving you a low battery on the panel after you've cleared the tamper what you want to do is repeat the process remove the battery leave it out for thirty minutes to one home at thirty seconds sorry not 30 minutes 30 seconds to one whole minute and then place the battery back in after you've done that you want to make sure that you align the metal slot here to this part here and all you're gonna do you know once you place it on twist it clockwise that locks it into place now if you go back to the panel to clear that tamper three hallways smoke detector tamper all you're gonna do hit the home button once to go to the home screen and then once you have the home screen you hit it again to bring up the keypad you're gonna enter in the default master code for Honeywell it's one two three four if you change it obviously you want to use the master code that you change it to so you press the home button two times and turn the default master code unless you've changed it one two three four that should clear well let's do it one more time I believe it has to be done twice and after you've done it the second time you've made sure that the tamper is on correct you'll see that system goes back into ready to arm you no longer have a low battery now again this is just a quick simple way of switching the battery for the 5808w3 if you guys found this video helpful make sure to hit like at the bottom of the video also make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and enable notifications that way whenever we upload new content you can actually get notified if you if you have any more questions feel free to email us at support at alarm calm thank you guys very much my name is Jorge I'll see you guys next time