Re: New Comfort keypad install dilemma

[<neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My comfort panel has two part connectors.

When I added a keypad a few weeks ago, I just pulled the keypad connector
off of its pins, made the connection and pushed the connector back on
again.

Cheers

Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>; <comfort@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:05 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] New Comfort keypad install dilemma


> just received a new keypad that I plan to install this weekend.
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> I've fitted up the keypad end, set the ID jumpers to ID2 etc....
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> Next I need to connect it to the panel end. - never mind the fact that
I
> have no idea where the other end of the cable is at the mo (I'll find
it!),
> but I need to turn the panel power off to make the connection to the
Comfort
> PCB... Now when I do this, the bell will immediately go off outside
won't
> it....
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> Is there an easy way to stop this?  -  could I use a wall-wart to send
12V
> up to the bellbox? - If I do that, presumably I'd have to disconnect
it
from
> the Comfort PCB otherwise I'd be sending the 12V onto the PCB as well
> wouldn't I? - so even if this would work, there would have to be a
brief
> period when there was no 12V going to the bellbox whilst I made the
> switchover?....
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> Or is my only option to get up the ladder and disconnect the battery
in
the
> bellbox?
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> Or could I connect the keypad to the PCB whilst it's is still on
without
> destroying my Comfort panel?
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> TIA
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> Paul G.
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