4/20/2023 0 Comments Honeywell alarm keypad![]() I have mostly glass break detectors, and I've been inside a couple of them. I had it installed 16 years ago when I moved in when I went to look for info on the web about it, there was almost nothing. Trust me when I say the Westec 4000 is ancient. I hope I'm not coming across as overly officious, but I'd hate to think of some old EOLR ambushing you just as you're showing your house, or having the new buyer call you the week he moves in. It waited 3 days (!!) to go into trouble because the EOL Fire loop resistor was 3.3K instead of 2K. But the real hazard is that they'll sometimes tolerate as much as a 50% or more resistance-for awhile.Ī few years ago I actually had a service call following a panel swap-out, and the installers used the existing EOLR in the fire loop for an Ademco panel because the panel didn't object when they wired it in. It's not uncommon to find 2.2 K resistors used in place of 2K's, and the panel won't even notice a 10% difference. The control panels aren't designed to be very discriminating about that resistance they're looking for. If you read anywhere near 2K ohms on the loop, then you're good to go without installing the resistors that came with your panel. I rarely read more than 5 ohms in a loop. It shouldn't read more than a few ohms without the EOLR, maybe a dozen or so if it's a long loop covering a lot of doors/windows. If you have a multimeter, I'd advise you to read the resistance on all your hardwire loops before connecting them. If there's a fire loop with smoke/heat sensors, however, that EOLR should be at the last device on the loop (or the installing technician should be criminally prosecuted!). If you're lucky, the Westec's EOLR's were installed on the loop inside the old control panel at the zone loop terminals-or whatever panel they were using was programmed not to look for an EOLR-that's common option for many panels. Your Vista-20 panel uses 2K for everything. Ademco used to use 1K and now they use 2K for _most_ applications. Trouble with swapping out system control panels is, most of them used different value resistors, anything from 1K ohm to 12K ohm. In nearly all alarm systems for the last 20-30 years, there are EOLR's installed in the loops. The only reason that matters is the possibility that there are some EOLR's (End Of Line Resistors) installed in your wiring waiting to ambush you when you connect the hardwired zone loops onto the panel. I haven't been able to find what equipment they used-it's highly unlikely they made their own. They apparently weren't that big in most places. Westec 4000? I'm not familiar with their stuff and from what I've read on several other forums, neither are most experienced alarm techs. For that, you will need a 2-line alphanumeric keypad, either a 6139 or a 6160. When that comes up, look in the installation instructions at fields *190, *191, etc.Īnother Note: You can do some of the programming with your 6150 keypad, but not the zone programming. The Address 16 is the default address permanently in the control, but if you want to add more keypad, you will need to go into Panel Installer Programming and enable addresses 17, 18, 19, etc. Connecting to live power can zap your keypad. The keypad drops out of programming if you make no entry for more than a few seconds, so stopping to re-read the instructions doesn't work well.Īnother warning: Connecting keypads in the newer Ademco systems should be done with power off. Note: Be prepared to make the entries before doing steps 1 & 2. The panel does a diagnostic self-check on power-up, so you may have to wait another couple of minutes before the display makes sense. Give it a few seconds and your display will come up. (3) Enter "16", which will show in the display, and then * (star) to save it. Your Vista-20P requires keypads and other bus devices to be addressed.) ![]() (That's the default keypad address, used for non-addressable systems. Hold them down for 3 seconds, and a display of (probably) "31" will show. You must do this within 60 seconds of powering up. (2)Power the panel up and immediately press 1 and 3 simultaneously. (1)Power the panel down and wait about half a minute, just to be safe. You do _not_ need to go into the control panel programming to do this, it's Keypad Local Programming-nothing to do with Panel Installer Programming.įirst, I assume you returned the green & yellow wires to their proper places? Kent, you need to set the keypad address.
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