Re: DuMP DuMP DuMP .....

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A few hints on the older panels:

Don't let the system batteries go longer than 3 years. In my experience the
older panels where/are hard on the batteries...maybe the charging circuit I
dunno. But it's like almost to the day...3 years and you'll start getting
low batts, no matter what brand you use. Don't ignore low battery sigs
fromthese panels - for reasons stated in my last post.

If any of them have 692 keypads - the LED keypads - there was a lockup issue
(years ago) that was corrected by the factory adding MOVs on the keypad
circuit board. They'd lock up easily with lightning...not the panel locking
up the keypad. You could reset them by disconnecting power to the keypad and
reconnecting. I still have a few of those out there and I walk the homeowner
how to do it over the phone if they don't want to pay for a service call.
However, there is/was free replacements available from the factory on those
keypads. Call techsupport and see if they are still offering this.

Have you had DMP come out and get your guys trained? They'll do that you
know, it might help if you havent.

R


"Bob La Londe" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> man, I've never had a 20 lock up and I must have 400 or so out there. The
>> only 10's Ive had lock up was with the old 692 keypads or lightning
>> damaged.
>>
>>
>> One thing to note about some of the older 10's...IF the battery is
>> old/bad/low and there's a power outage when power is returned you can
>> have a strange situation - scrambled program (I like to refer to them as
>> inverted data bits), or transformer will fry. In the scramble situation
>> initializing the panel and doing a clean (manually) re-program will fix
>> 99% of panels that suffer from this. And again...these are on old xr-10.
>>
>>
>>
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> Not sure exactly how old they are.  The guy who isntalled them died about
> three years ago.  I think he was in business three or four years.  I have
> all his files so I guess I could check the original installation contracts
> to see how old they are.  Can't be older than six or seven years.
>
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