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Re: Dammit.. How to get 2 zones and power from a 4-conductor
alarman wrote:
>Nelson Muntz wrote:
>> I know. But the problem is how to hook up the tampers at the panel
>> end, since I can not just series all 5 with only one "high" coming
>> back. I only have one extra zone.
>
>Add a zone expander. The customer wants something extra, shouldn't he pay
>for it?
>
Yes. I thought about an expander and doing it the shortcut way , or
running new wire for the tamper zone and put them all together on a 24
hour (almost useless). Or do it right and run more wire AND add the
expander. <sigh> Me and my big mouth. We never discussed this
feature - I added the tampers for him to see if a motion was bad when
he armed. But then I had to open my big mouth and tell him about
scheduling, which is programmed to auto-arm, which led to this cluster
fuck. In retrospect I made the error. I should have anticipated his
needs and offered it from the beginning. Shit.
>>> Alternatively if the panel supports DEOL then use DEOL and have the
>>> tamper circuit open the zone completely,
>>
>> What is DEOL?
>
>Double end of line resistor configuration allows you to monitor the alarm
>contact as well as the integrity of the wiring (tamper and fault) with a
>single pair of wires. DSC panels have the option, not sure about Ademco.
Ahh, I didn't recognize (recognise for Doug) the acronym. Ademco
does not support it-- but it does give me an idea. I could swap the
board for a Vista-20 and do some zone doubling nappy-headed-ho
rigging.
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