Re: eol dsc1550

[joe <klcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

joe wrote:
> Crash Gordon wrote:
>
>> ot: you guys are not up in vegas I guess?
>>
>>
>>
> I'm not up in Vegas but who is?
>
> I made all zones, 1, 3 which is slow & silent and Interior Home-Away Loop.
> With no fire zone. Then I made all zones normally closed without a end
> of line resistor. This works fine, all zones are  off, and the ready
> light is on the keypad.
>
> The trouble light is coming on now after a few minutes, which points to
> the battery.
>
> I am going to give it a few hours then go back and check to see if the
> battery trouble light remains on.
>
> I had to come back to this newsgroup and read about what the board
> should be putting out for the battery. The Battery is new. If when I go
> back and the trouble light is still on. The float charges is around what
> 13.4 to 13.8. I will just put a meter to the plus and minus sides of the
> battery wires, to check this. Would this be correct? I want to see if
> the board is charging the battery.
>
> Thanks, Joe
>
> PS I've only been to Vegas once, that was when I was younger, and now I
> have more bills to pay.

I put a meter just to the battery wires,
and they checked correctly 13.7. Then I
connected them to the battery, this
would always bring a little arc.  The
meter would read only what the battery
was putting out, and this reading was
dropping.  This was a new battery, I
went and got another battery.  I put the
wires on the battery then check the
voltage to the wires. Now it was
checking 13.6 and it was going up.


The previous battery was brand-new, and
it was a bad battery.