Re: ademco 5241 repair

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool!...and it's holding up in this heat for all these years out in a shed?
amazing





"Bob in Phx" <rbelisle1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| The answer was to gently clean the ribbon cable with a pencil eraser. I
did
| just that and tested it. It worked 20 out of 20 times... I then re-tinned
| the "code" wires, just to be safe.. Bottom line is that its up and
| working!!!!!!!!!!!
|
| bob in phx....
| "Bob in Phx" <rbelisle1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > Lurker here. I recently picked up an Ademco 1023 (yes I know its old and
| > not feature rich) to alert me when my shed is tampered with. Only one
door
| > and one window. The system works fine, the only problem is the key pad
| > does not want to work at all...If I use a key switch, no problems!!!. I
am
| > guessing that the hard wired code setting system of plug in wires is the
| > culprit. But, upon opening the keypad up fully, I see a very old ribbon
| > cable printed with conductors on a plastic base. Anyone know how to
clean
| > the ribbon cable and/or hard wire code connections. Or would it be
better
| > to just hard wire (read solder) all the connections?????? or does anyone
| > have a 5241 for sale. Or is there a replacement newer keypad that would
| > work??????
| >
| > Thanks in advance...
| >
| > bob in phx...
| >
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