Re: Unlocking Vista 15P3 (Monitronics Boards)

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can't buy a chip...well maybe maybe you could if you were a dealer...but
it ain't easy.
You have to have a garage full of pulled panels that my have other problems
besides the chip, and  you pull one from one of them.

You should be able to get into programming. But if you cannot remove the
dialer # and account number the panel will alway try to dial when it has
something to send, and since you will unplug it from the telco line...it
will fail to communicate. This will display FC on the keypad - everyday if
they have it set to test daily (I doubt it) but when ever you want to clear
the FC you may have to go into programming then exit again. This will be a
PITA.

In the long run you will end up buying a new Vista 15P :-) --- they're not
all that expensive. In fact you probably could step down to a 10P -
depending on what all is in the system.



--
Crash Gordon
-------ouch------

<I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe>
"Marc" <mlipovitch@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Hc_Pi.462$qv6.27@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| PS how does one go about replacing the chip?  Where can you get them?
| I'd be willing to try a Monitronics code if there is one at the expense
| of wiping out all info on the panle, as I'd gladly reprogram it from
| scratch to avoid their monitoring!  (otherwise it's at best a local
| panel I guess)?
|
| Marc wrote:
|
| > Thanks again!  Will try to unlock with sequence you described......but
| > won't be a monitored panel I guess!
| >
| > M
| >
| > Crash Gordon wrote:
| >
| >> I dunno. I can only speak from my experience from having worked on
| >> about 10-15 this year and none were locked although I could not change
| >> the dialer number - so ended up swapping the board out.
| >>
| >>
| >>