Re: Connecting two DMP alarms together? Outputs to Zones? Possible?

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Jason Millard said:

>You are right, that I could have brought the fire zone and burglary into to
>the XR200,  but I didn't want to do that. I wanted the garage to be armed
>separate.
>
>So the only way I thought I could tie the two systems together would be if I
>used the annuciator outputs of the XRSuper6.
>
>Regardless of industry best practices (which I 100% respect), shouldn't I be
>able to do accomplish this?

There are good reasons not to.  One which has not been mentioned by others
is the lack of supervision between the two panels.  In other words, if the
wire between your annunciator output on the XR6 and the XR200 is broken,
you won't have any indication of that.

As others have pointed out, the XR200 panel supports multiple areas and
multiple partitions.  You could use a keypad in the garage along with a
smoke, and you would have complete control of the garage system from inside
your house, if you wish, in addition to being able to control the garage
separately from the garage keypad.  In which case, the connection is fully
supervised.  You could turn the garage protection on and off from inside
the house if you want.

Wish you had asked this question before you bought the XR6.  But looking at
the bright side, the DMP keypad you bought for the XR6 can be connected to
the XR200, so you won't have to buy new parts to make this work properly.

- badenov