Re: Ademco Vista10-SE installing new 5808 problems?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-don't just change the s/n delete the zone and do it again...manually
-remove batteries from smokes and short the battery pins to discharge smokes
caps

how are you testing them btw?


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**Crash Gordon**







"Thomas Hellmer" <thellmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C5B0E423.A820%thellmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Well just to rule out zones or problems with the 6128RF keypad/receiver
> not
> recognizing zones 17/18, I just got finished trying enrolling the new 5808
> as Zone 11 and it still didn't work. I removed a motion detector from zone
> 11, reenrolled it as zone 17 and it worked fine, so then I added the new
> 5808 into the old zone 11 slot that was working fine with the motion
> detector of course using zone type 09, rf, loop 1, and manually entering
> the
> serial number.  It did nothing, so I removed the serial just for kicks and
> tried having it send it, but it still wouldn't send a serial number with
> either the test button or with the magnet base removal. So I entered it
> manually again, reset the system, and put it into test mode and all the
> other house sensors worked but not the 5808. So I pulled that new one,
> tried
> the old one that I had mentioned worked once before and it wouldn't work
> either. Batteries had been left in both 5808's all night though (as I had
> them mounted for use as stand-alone units) - maybe batteries have tobe
> removed for several days? I wouldn't think so.  Anyway, for some reason
> the
> microprocessor must be disabling the wireless side or something. They are
> both 1999 models per a post in the DIY alarms forums that told me how to
> read the code, but the one is brand new but old stock. I opened the
> chambers
> just now to see if they had dust, residue, or anything in them and they
> both
> looked brand new with the sensors being crystal clear. Could the
> microprocessor know they are 10 years old somehow? I don't think the Vista
> 10SE has a date entry anywhere in it. Maybe capacitor drift from old
> capacitors? I do know capacitors can dry out even unused, but I'd think
> the
> new in the box one even if old stock should at least work longer than a
> day
> - plus they all seem to work as a standalone device, just not with the
> system. Still a puzzle. Just like any malfunctioning computer program or
> electronic device, the most aggravating thing about it is trying to figure
> it out. lol
>
>
> On 2/5/09 5:01 PM, in article vdKil.1723$Ft.261@xxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jim Rojas"
> <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I hear ya...trip and roll using the tamper instead of the test
>> button...Some panels require 2 trips to confirm...gets confusing. Then
>> you wonder why Loop 4 comes up. Check and make sure the serial number
>> matches, and the Loop is 1.
>>
>> Jim Rojas
>>
>>
>>
>> Crash Gordon wrote:
>>> I've not that problem. But I always...hand enter the SN...because I HAVE
>>> had
>>> problems with the old trip to enroll method.
>>>
>