Re: Behavior of Disconnecting Keypad From Ademco 128BP Panel?

[Crash Gordon® <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you disconnect or interrupt the data yellow/green wires you'll get a =
error on all the other keypads.


"autonut843" <hmjunk31415@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message =
news:1121303407.759386.18860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| I do not know, but here are some things rattling around the brain
| cavity....
| I wonder, if he interrupted the green "Data In From Keypad" wire, what
| would that do?  I've never tried anything like this so don't know, but
| would guess that then the K/P would still be powered and display stuff
| OK, just not send keypresses back to the control panel.  Of course, if
| the panel firmware polls the keypads periodically and expects a
| response then this wouldn't work.
|=20
| I'm not familiar with the 128BP so googled on it and read a sentence,
| "Zone 7 may be used for keyswitch arming and disarming."  Maybe =
instead
| of hooking the relay up to one or more of the keypad wires you could
| hook it up to zone 7 and use the relay like a key switch.
|=20
| Good luck, let us know how you end up solving it.
|