Re: Natural gas detectors and Co detectors

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I had my Vista20P originally setup for zone doubling. I had my 2 wire
> smokes on zone 1. I was still able to use zone 9 as a wireless zone. But
> soon afterwards, I threw in a 4219 to keep things simple. I am no fan of
> zone doubling.
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> Jim Rojas

True but zone 1 isn't zone doubled, I was referring to having say zone 2 as
a burg and zone 10 as a fire which is bad

I never cared for it either, too many wires in too few terminals

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> Mark Leuck wrote:
> > Fault as in alarm? If you are using Contact ID I'd say a 151 Gas
Detection
> > should work. Honeywell says it's a bad idea to program fire on a zone
thats
> > set for zone doubling and the same if on a zone expander.  For those use
the
> > panel's built-in zones
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> > <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1189346248.446114.307000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> I use Ademco Vista 20p panels.  I need to add 2 Co detectors and 2
> >> Natural gas detectors.
> >> Ademco has a Co type for fault reporting, but I do not see a Natural
> >> gas faul code.   What do you guys use?
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> >>  Also can I put all 4 detectors on a zone expander?  The manual says
> >> don't use zone doubling and Ademco Tech said don't use expansion
> >> module but he seemed a bit confused when I asked him why.  Anybody
> >> know why?   Thanks Paul.
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