Re: Ademco 50P - Unable To Disarm

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a difference between the Installer Code and Master Code. The
Installer code gets you into programming, if you don't know system
programming...hopefully you didn't mess something up. As Nomen pointed out
in another post, if you arm the system with a code other than the Installer
code the installer code cannot disarm.

WHAT zone is displaying when the alarm mysteriously goes off...is it a fire
zone? a panic zone maybe?


"Don" <dedeaux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Thanks for the suggestion I will try it in the morning.  In the
| meantime, in pursuing the suggestions made here, I realized I left out
| possibly pertinent information.  To wit:  the system insists there is
| an alarm fault.  Details:
|
| - powered up the system, ac then batteries
|
| - reset the master/installer code (the only code in the system since I
| am currently the only user)
|
| - system went into the default  Disarmed Ready to Arm - green light
| position
|
| - after the usual time I think of as the Vista 50P's version of a
| computer's Power On Self Test (POST), the system went into alarm and
| would not let me disarm.  This is actually the primary reason I
| originally powered the system down, the noise is a killer.
|
| Building on suggestions here, I today disconnected only one of the 7
| keypads before powering up with the above results.  Tomorrow, I will
| take down all but one and do the incremental add.  Problem is that this
| is a two-person job because the panel is quite distant from the keypads
| and that alarm goes off about three minutes or less after boot up!
|
| Considering the system's insistence that some contact (an Entry?) is in
| alarm, I will also check whether the door contacts through which the
| worker entered have been compromised.  Even were this so, however,
| should I not be able to Disarm?
|
| To all, Enjoy the beginning of summer and thanks.
|
| Don
|