Re: Problems with an Ademco Vista-15... System won't arm, and it keeps counting?

["Stanley Barthfarkle" <sbarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could be that zones 49-63 have been inadvertently programmed into the
system. Anyone have the section numbers handy for those zones so he can
check?




<iratable@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hoping someone might have run into this problem before. I've got a 5-
> year old Ademco Vista-15 which refuses to arm.
>
> The control pad -- a fixed-word display -- has a "check" status
> indicator on, and the alphanumeric section where I would expect to see
> zone data is counting from 49 to 63, then starting over again. (And
> over and over and over.)
>
> When tripping the sensors (total of 2 motion + 3 door) the control pad
> is correctly identifying the zones that are being triggered. Inputing
> the master code to turn the system off, place it in test mode, adjust
> other codes, or anything else for that matter seems to have no effect.
>
> Anybody run into something like this before? Could it be a simple
> matter of replacing a battery or something? (I couldn't find any
> descriptions via Google that matched my problem, so I'm not so sure.)
>
> Many thanks in advance for the help...
>