Re: New installation. Help needed.

["alarman" <nospam@xxxxxxxx>]

Injun Ear wrote:
> OK, here's my setup.  I posted here back in Feb when I was buying my
> new Vista 20P setup.  I started installing it today.  Got the whole
> thing in and hooked up.  I have a 6160 keypad and a 6150 by the back
> door.  Got both of them addressed and working.
>
> I have the 2-wire smoke det on zone 1
> 1 motion detector on zone 2 with a resistor across it at the detector
> terminals
> 1 motion det on zone 3 same setup
> Front door mag switch on zone 4 with the resistor in the panel
> Back door mag switch on zone 5 with the resistor in the panel
> Window switch on zone 6, resistor in panel
> garage door switch on zone 7, resistor in panel
> zone 8 not being used, has a resistor in the panel
>
> The whole thing powers up, but I get a fault 2, fault 3, fault 4 and
> fault 6 in the screen on the 6160.  I can't figure why.  The motion
> detector's LEDs light up when I walk thru the room.  The smoke
> detector's green light is flashing every 5 seconds.
>
> The 6150 is displaying 02, 03, 04, 06, FC and "not ready"
>
> I have 2 wave2s connected, one in the garage and one in the hall. Both
> work fine.
>
> I put the resistor across the 2 wires in the smoke detector.  Is that
> where it goes?  The instructions are vague, look like they want me to
> run 2 smoke detectors, but I only have 1.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm about ready to get hooked
> up with a monitoring company now.

Sounds like your smoke is wired ok, but the resistors need to go in series
with the devices on burg zones, not in parallel.

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