Re: DSC Power 832 Puzzle (Long)

["Stanley Barthfarkle" <sbarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

You probably have 2 distinct problems here- A PIR that falsed, and a power
draw problem.



"Armond Perretta" <newsgroupreader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Disclaimer:  This is largely a DIY setup, but I hope you will agree that
> it
> has been very carefully done (in major part by alarm pros), and that this
> is
> a serious inquiry.
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> Setup:  Power 832 5010, 2 LCD5500 Keypads, 5208 PGM board, Escort 5580
> board, 5108 zone board, 5132 wireless board.  All window and door sensors
> hard-wired, 4 PIRs hard wired, 2 key fobs (in cars) on the wireless board.
> No additional wireless sensors.  All programming using DLS 2002 (which
> shows
> no errors).
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> The physical system has shown no errors since installation in June 2003.
> Except for HA programming on the Escort board in the last few weeks that
> involved changing PGM 3 to 10 attributes on the main board, there have
> been
> no additional recent changes.  No errors have occurred with the HA (X10)
> portion of the system in the 2 or so weeks since the Escort programming
> changes.
>
> On Friday 16 Sep in the afternoon I armed the system in "away" mode to run
> a
> few errands.  About 10 minutes after my departure the basement PIR sent a
> series of alarms to the monitoring station and I was contacted.  Returned
> home to disarm the system and check the premises, but no physical
> intrusion
> observed.  No pets or other persons in this home, etc.
>
> I put the alarm into test with the monitoring company, put the system into
> section 901 installer "walk-thru"  test mode, and tried to check the
> basement PIR.  At this point the system crashed and I was unable to use
> the
> keypads.  I tried for about an hour to recover, but no go.  Frustrated, I
> removed the AC and the battery, vowing to extract my revenge the next day.
>
> On the next day, I removed all wiring from the main board.  The wiring was
> unfortunately a bit of a rats nest, following the initial installation (by
> the builder's sub), some work by an alarm pro friend (who added the PIRs
> and
> the zone expansion board and got me started with the programming about 2
> years ago, and myself (who added the wireless,
> the 5208, the Escort, and probably a few other things).
>
> Removing, labeling, and cleaning up the wiring took a very long time, but
> it
> was done with care.  I used a small 66 punch-down board to connect the
> main
> bus wires from all the expansion boards to the main board, and to connect
> all the PIR aux wires to the main board aux terminals.  All connections
> were
> tested carefully prior to reinstalling.
>
> While the main board was "naked" I defaulted the panel by shorting the PGM
> "1" and the Zone "1" pins.  Following re-connection of all wiring (in
> stages) I powered up the panel with no errors, re-assigned the keyboards
> (slots 7 and 8), and re-downloaded the panel using the backup from the DLS
> 2002 software.
>
> All went "per design" and the system appears to be working perfectly,
> including the basement PIR that seemed to be the initial culprit.  However
> I
> am a little spooked by this incident, since we tend to go away for days at
> a
> time.  I am now looking at the setup with just a bit of suspicion.
>
> I am (obviously) a DIYer (although a careful one), and I am wondering if
> the
> pros have any constructive comments on what might have happened..
>
> --
> Good luck and good sailing.
> s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
> http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare
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