Re: Quality Ademco Engineering

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Mark Leuck wrote:

>As far as I know the XMP wouldn't work with either 6139 or 6160 anyway. And
>I don't consider that much of an oops when the vast majority of the later
>stuff will, I've run into maybe 1 XMPT2's in my life.

The 4140XMPT2 was the predecessor of the Vista 50.  There are lots of them
in the field.  From what J. Barnes says, the 6160 doesn't work with the
Vista 50 either.  They work fine with a 6139.

The 6139 keypads work fine with the 4140XMP panels.  They also work with
the Vista 40.  I'm guessing neither one works with the 6160.

I have two complaints here.  First, backward compatibility is a pretty
obvious thing to do.  But my main bitch is, none of these problems are
mentioned in the instructions.  You don't find out about them until it's
time to replace a keypad, and then, oh shit, they gave me a bad keypad.  Oh
no they idn't, the keypad is fine.

Make that three complaints.  The fine engineering staff at Ademco still
hasn't figured out a way to copy a program from an older panel type to a
newer panel type.  So when you have to replace that bad keypad with a 6160,
you find that means you get to replace the panel too, and you have to
program the new panel from scratch.   None of the program information from
that XMPT2 can be copied to the new Vista 50P you have to install, even
though the programs are very similar.

How to waste an entire day on what was supposed to be replacing a bad
keypad.