Re: Quality Ademco Engineering

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

So the 7760 graphics keypad works with the 1812? Cool!

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> that's one of the many things i like abt dmp...all backwards compatable.
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> "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | "Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | > Mark Leuck wrote:
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> | > >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.
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> | > 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.
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> | > 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.
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> | Yes but how far back do you go? Neither of those keypads will work on
say
> a
> | 4110XM/DL or a 4140XMP. Your scenario isn't going to happen very often
and
> | while it isn't a good thing when it does it's likely better to replace
the
> | panel anyway
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> | >
> | > 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.
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> | True but it's not that hard to save and print the old info out and
> download
> | it into the new panel
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> |
> | > How to waste an entire day on what was supposed to be replacing a bad
> | > keypad.
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> | That I can't argue with
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