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

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well...what value resistor does whatever panel you are installing call for?
Ademco uses 1K or 2K, some other panels may have one value for a burg zone
and a DIFFERENT value for a fire zone.


"Total nerd" <geekboy0001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Yeah, that's a good idea -- I simply shorted all the window contacts
| together and pulled the wires off the panel.  I measures 2.2K ohms on
| the meter.  Then, one at a time, I disconnected each window contact, to
| assure myself that it indeed produced an open circuit, and it did.  So
| either: you're right and the value of the resistor is not compatible
| with the panel, or the panel programming is wrong, or some other
| outside force is influencing my zone such as the phase of the moon or
| number of resident aliens in the local area.
| One question, though: If I cut the yellow wire for each window switch,
| should the EOL resistor be placed on the same yellow wire before the
| last switch, or on the green uncut wire just after the last switch?
|