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

["Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Dannyboyy" <dan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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 -


What model detectors do you have?  The terminal numbers mean nothing unless
we know that.  I'm assuming the "2nd Floor" is the "top floor".  Which color
wires is the end-of-line resistor connected to??