Re: Adding a 2nd Ademco 6128 keypad to Vista 10SE W/E2

["Dan" <none@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Roland More" <NoSpamroland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >"and I am afraid there will be some kind of fine-print clause preventing
> >me from adding components"
>
> As a practical matter, no alarm company wants to have and end user fat
> fingering the system it installed. It is not hard to understand why. If
> you or someone else other than ADT owns the equipment (and since you
> didn't sign an agreement with ADT) I think it would be hard for you to be
> bound by that agreement. In this case your system is so old (last made in
> 2001 I believe) I doubt it is under any sort of warranty that you would
> void and I doubt if ADT has reliable records of exactly how many keypads
> it has on that system. Since the panel itself doesn't know how many
> keypads it has, it won't (can't) signal to ADT any information regarding a
> change in keypads attached to the system. In other words, ADT won't know
> (much less care), unless they read this post. If there is some sort of
> loss due to equipment failure, and legal finger pointing starts, your
> efforts may come to light.

Roland-Thanks for the reply, you've pretty much stated what I assumed to be
the case, including the age, existance of a warranty, etc.  Am I correct to
assume if I put the system in test, power it down, connect the keypad &
re-power, the new keypad should be functional?