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

["alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Total nerd" <geekboy0001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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??

What panel are you using?
js