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

[bdolph <bdolph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe your alarm contact is installed backwards..... :)

BobbyD

Total nerd wrote:

>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??
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