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

["Roland More" <NoSpamroland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes it should. However in alarm work it is best to assume nothing works
until it is throughly tested. Try each digit on the new keypad one by one
(including # and *) while still on test with the monitoring station.

"Dan" <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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?
>