Re: Multiple magnets, one zone, EOL resistor. Never works!

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You couldn't possibly be joining a lead to a magnet!


"Total nerd" <geekboy0001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1130111927.471909.246590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| This never seems to work properly for me.  Here's what I do... am I
| doing something wrong?
| I want to secure, say, 4 windows with magnets.  I take two wires from
| the panel -- a green and yellow.  The green wire goes uncut allllll the
| way to the last magnet and I place an EOL resistor there and join it
| with one lead on the last magnet.  The yellow wire gets cut at each
| window and a magnet is placed at each cut by simply splicing in the two
| leads of the magnet.  This is what I would call a series circuit.  Now,
| if I open any window, the circuit is open.  If all windows are closed,
| all magnets are closed and the circuit is closed with an EOL resistor
| reading 2.2K ohms.  I've checked this with a meter.  All I have to do
| is plug the green and yellow into a zone and program the panel that
| it's a NC zone with an EOL resistor on it.  Why does it always think
| it's open?  If I take the EOL resistor out and program the zone to have
| NO EOL resistor then of course it works.  What the heck am I doing
| wrong??
|
|