Re: Newbe Vista-20P question

[James Gang <jamesgangnc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, June 14, 2014 12:47:38 PM UTC-4, John Sowden wrote:
> On 06/14/2014 06:24 AM, JoeRaisin wrote:
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> > On 6/13/2014 4:22 PM, James Gang wrote:
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> >> Fault 07 means zone 7?  The resistors are new.
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> > Dude- I once bought a whole new pack of resistors that were all dead sh=
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> > Now-a-days, I will generally meter resistors before I use them.
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> take a voltmeter reading across each zone.  with only resistors=20
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> smoke and/or other 2 wire devices zone.  If not, check the resistors, as=
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> solve it, you probably have a bad zone on the board.
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> John

Thanks guys.  I set zone 7 to off and the fault went away.  So now I need t=
o trouble shoot that zone a bit further.  But long term I don't need it, I'=
m only planning to use a couple zones.  I could have easily used a lesser m=
odel but someone gave me this 20p the control panels.

Really appreciate the help, I'll probably be back with a new question or tw=
o before I'm done :-)  We travel a lot and leave the house empty for extend=
ed periods so I thought installing this with a few wired motion detectors a=
nd a siren would be a good idea.