Re: DSC FSA-410AST Smoke Detectors

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 9:25:13 PM UTC-4, Chris wrote:
Actually, this is one of those "problem systems" in another way. There's a =
zone expander on the system, which is an improvement over most that I see, =
but the 8 smokes take up only 2 zones. I was hoping they were all home run =
and could be separated, but no... they were all daisy chained instead. This=
 is a DSC 5010, so it's capable of having two more zone expanders and runni=
ng 32 zones. There's lots of room in the electrical room where the panel is=
 located to add a separate enclosure for the zone expander if needed. And t=
o top it off, this was a prewired building (sometime in the 90's I assume).=
 So why not home run everything and do it properly? - Chris

I'm assuming that these are two wire smokes. =20

I just thought i'd mention that you might be able to run one 4 wire to the =
right point .....  and break this into 4 zones with two smokes each.