Re: DSC Power 832 Puzzle (Long)

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Its good that  you cleaned it all up. But I would have started trbl shooting
with the pir that falsed...first the wiring...no nicks or loose wires for
the loop or power?...then investigate environmental problems in
basement...rodents, spiders, temperature changes, water drips, is it looking
at a water heater, airconditioner, furnace...and clean the pir...junk like
that. I've even seen a pir looking at a fax machine...that was a tricky one
to figure out.



"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).
|
| 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..
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| --
| Good luck and good sailing.
| s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
| http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare
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