Re: Gemini P3200 - * ZONES FAULTED ***

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

mpsully@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My Gemini P3200 system recently started telling me that all of my
> Entry/Exit zones are faulted.  No wiring changes or other changes at
> the panel have occured.   Although, I am not sure if it caused the
> problem, this condition seemed to occur after I tried to enable Chime 2
> on these zones (undoing this did not help).
>
> Oddly Zone 7, which is not set as an Entry/Exit zone is not faulting
> and neither is zone 8 whis is set as a 2 wire fire zone.
>
> I tried erasing the dealer program (4091), but that did not help.
> When I reset the system, I receive the prompt for RF Transmitter points
> and Key Fob Transmitters .   I do not hav either type of device in the
> system.
>
> Any help on how to clear this status would be greatly appreciated!

You obviously have access to the dealer programing. Since the problem
occured
after you were in the dealer programing mode, it seems only logical to
think that you
did something that you're not aware of while you were programing.

My suggestion would be to first power down the systems. Let it sit for
a minute or so and then power it back up. First apply AC power and then
apply the standby battery. Check the system and see if you are still
experiencing the problems you are describing.

If so:
I'm going to assume that you're programing the system via kepad.
If you're doing the program through the keypad, it's more likely that
you screwed
something up than if you were using a computer with the propritary
Napco program.
If you have the Napco program then it should be easy to locate the
problem and
I would suspect that you wouldn't need anyones help.

I'm thinking that when you programed by hand, when you tried to change
the
"chime 2" programing, you may have entered some data in a normally non
used area of the program. So in order to be sure that everything is
where it
should be I have bad news for you. You're going to have reset the
system
back to factory defalut and hand enter all the data again. If I recall,
(but I
could be wrong on this) not all versions of the 3200 could be reset to
defalut or at least it wasn't in the manual. If there isn't any
instruction
in the manual, let me know what version chip you have and I'll let you
know if there's a way to default it.

My bet is that there is nothing wrong with the panel, you just entered
data
in the wrong area or powerd the system down while it was in the program
mode or something like that.

By the way, Mr Bass would like nothing better than to have you send
back
a working board to him, so he could charge you for the replacement.
Watch out for this guy. He's got a terrible reputation in this
Newsgroup and
with his local BBB.