Re: DSC Maxsys PC 4020 Reporting probs.

["James" <trishnjames@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

your right it would still connect to the reciever but when it tried to send
the account number, the reciever would give an error message and the proper
account would not show up.

James

"mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Have you tried listening to the calls with a butt set?
>
> "Anonymoose" <none@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > At my job, I work mostly with ademco panels. But on a recent remodeling
> job,
> > our wonderful project management team decided to install one of these
DSC
> > panels (Not knocking them, it seems like a nice panel its just that I'm
> > barely at all familiar with these). Well it just so happens that I'm the
> > only tech that works with the alarm panels and they decide to throw me
to
> > the wolves on this one too. Anyway, sorry for blabbing.. The problem I
am
> > having is the DSC panel is not reporting to either of our CS-1 (Ademco
> > 685's). It dials, attempts to communicate but the receiver just drops
the
> > call and gives one of its 11 RCVB 5555 5555 etc errors tryin to tell me
it
> > didn't understand the call. Now heres what I've done:
> > 1. I've replaced the board, left all zone devices off
> > 2. I've tested & changed the phone line to another # and cable
> > 3. I've deleted all programming and left only phone #1 active
> > 4. I've changed power supplies
> > 5. I've dabbled in programming changing subtle settings.
> > None of these work.
> >
> > my dept. (well, me) maintains two 685 receivers. security monitors one
and
> > the sheriff dept the other. I've changed phone no. 1 to to dial one
> receiver
> > to the other and it still does it. I've also verified that both the
> > receivers and the panel are set to Contact ID reporting. I now have no
> idea
> > what else to to. I would like to resolve this as my boss is planning on
> > changing out the panel to an ademco panel if its not resolved and with
97
> > zones, I think it would be a huge waste of time and taxpayer's $ to do
> this
> > when I'm sure its prolly something right under my nose thats causing it.
> if
> > anyone can shed some light onto this subject it would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> > Oh and just to be a lil more specific, there are a total of 33 alarm
> panels
> > (all ademco other than the DSC) that report to the receivers and the DSC
> is
> > the only one not coming thru. It was working fine and then all of the
> sudden
> > it stopped.
> > Thanks for your time and efforts.
> >
> >
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