Re: ademco 5890 wireless motion detector stopped working

["KingFish" <al@xxxxxx>]

<ymg200@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I wonder if anybody has experienced this before or I'm the first one.
> I have Vista-20P for few months already. I have never changed the
> configuration since I programmed the system few months ago. One of the
> sensors - wireless motion detector 5890 stopped sending alarm signal
> about a week ago. It is not dead though - if I open the sensor it
> triggers temper alarm. So batteries are definitely not dead and the
> system does recognize it since the system reacts on the temper switch
> inside the sensor. Also, if I put the sensor into the Test mode, red
> LED on the sensor lights up upon motion. It looks like all features
> work except sending alarm signal upon motion.
> The sensor was originally at the Zone12. During troubleshooting I
> deleted Zone12 and enrolled this sensor at Zone13, but result is
> exactly the same - temper switch does trigger temper alarm, but motion
> detection does not send alarm signal. This sensor has Zone Type 1
> (Entry/Exit), Partition 1, Loop 1
> I appreciate any tips. I don't know what could be causing this problem.

I don't know if this is your problem but they have a sleep mode where if it
is tripped once it will not trip again for a while, to save battery life.
Try covering it for an hour with a small box and then testing it by removing
the cover.