Re: Napco panel zones and keypad expanders

["Frank Olson" <Please-use-the-email-links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Total nerd" <geekboy0001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a Napco P3200, capable of 32 max zones wired/harwired.  If I
> program a keypad 4-zone expander, and use one of the zones on that
> keypad, am I now screwed out of the other 3 zones if they go unused? In
> other words, do I now have 28 zones available at the panel and 4
> available at the keypad, making 32 in total?  If the keypad occupies
> zones 29-32, I MUST use the zones AT THE KEYPAD or not at all?


Yep.  It doesn't look like Napco makes a single zone expander
(unfortunately).  You have a total of 32 hard wired zones available through
either EZM8 modules (8 zone expanders), the 8 zones already on the panel,
and the keypad zone expanders.  You don't have an option of using one zone
from one four zone keypad expander and another from a second four zone (or
EZM8).  They system will automatically assign the zone numbers on the
expanders when you enter the device addresses.