Re: Dammit.. How to get 2 zones and power from a 4-conductor

[Nelson Muntz <none@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.