both my friend,the bell box has a sab module,its fed twelve volts from the control panel and returns same to the panel,if it loses the voltage,then it triggers,you can do do a bell test by pressing 4 enter then your code,the internal sounder will sound for 3 secs,then the external sounder will sound for 3 secs if it does not,then you have a bell box prob
gts, November 2010