Re: Dagnabit. Why is my Smoke Detector in fault?

["Stanley Barthfarkle" <sbarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why are the Black and Red wires reversed at the 2nd floor detector?

And how is this detector connected to the intiating circuit if terminals 3&4
do not connect to anything?

Are the Green and Yellow wires at the 2nd floor detector connected to
anything? Are they shorted together?

After you get this working properly, be sure to test each detector
individually to ensure they all work properly and initiate an alarm.



"Dannyboyy" <dan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pNdie.25212$i1.17946@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi - Just finished my basement and went to put the DSC smoke and ROR
> detector back and
> now the main alarm keeps going off.  I had the PC1500 system offline for a
> few months and now the trouble report I get is for the batt. having a low
> charge.  This makes sense.  I reset the smoke zone at the panel but it
> keeps
> going back into alarm.  This would indicate to me that the system still
> sees
> smoke and will not reset itself.  I assume the detector is shorting the
> circuit.  But even so, the LED is flashing every 10 seconds which would
> indicate that the basement det. is working properly - maybe?  I wrote down
> the wire colors and terminal numbers but perhaps I missed something?  Here
> is the data keeping in mind that the 3 detectors are on a zone with the
> top
> floor det. having the EOL resistor visible at the det.:
>
> Basement
>
> 1 - R ed
> 2 - Black
> 3 - Yellow
> 4 - Green
>
> 1st Floor
>
> 1 - Red
> 2 - Black
> 3 - Green
> 4 - Yellow
>
> 2nd Floor
>
> 1 - Black
> 2 - Red
> 3 - not used
> 4 - not used
>
> Any ideas greatly appreciated -
>
>