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I have had an email from someone through these forums requesting help
with a Yale 6200 alarm and wanted another working siren.
This is a copy of my email in response to his problem...
Hi ******,
I don't mind you emailing me at all. Yale will tell you that you cannot have two working sirens with the 6200 system which is siren based. Certainly as you have found you cannot add a siren into a 6200 system as you can an additional sensor etc.
There is however a way to get round this problem and have two working sirens with a 6200 system.
You have to set up the second siren NOT as an addition to the first system but as if you are installing it as the main alarm.
First remove the second siren cover.
Switch the siren off and then to clear the memory put dip switch 1 into the on position while holding the learn button down for a couple of seconds.. there may be a brief faint flash from the led's. Then switch the siren on and put dip switch 1 back into the off position and dip switch 4 in the on position.
What you do now is programme this siren exactly the same way you did your first one.
Press the learn button so you see the two outside leds' flash once.
Now simply go round your appartment and press the learn button on the sensors. You will hear the loft siren bleep each time you press one of the sensors learn buttons.
With the keypad you need to press the top left red button followed by your code. This will set the keypad in programming mode (indicated by flashing green led) . Now press the top left button again followed the number 1. This sends a learn signal to the loft siren you should hear it beep. Then simply press the green key on the keypad a couple of times until the green light goes solid and then turns off.
Your last job is to go back to the loft siren and press the learn button on it again. You should see the central led flash once and hear a beep.
You have now programmed the second siren. At this stage the siren may activate just use your keypad as normal..ie green then your code to silence it.
Replace the cover and then test your system.
When you press arm now you should hear a confrmation bleep and led flash from both sirens. press green and your code and you should hear a double bleep from both sirens.
You now have a 6200 system working with two sirens.
The easiest way to programme a 6200 with two sirens is to do it when you are first setting up with the devices and sirens out on the floor or a table.
Then you simply switch both sirens into learn mode at the same time and programme them together. You are in effect creating two seperate 6200 systems with the sirens as masters and then programming them to respond to common devices..
There may be a slight delay in the bleeps . ie one siren may bleep slightly before the other when arming or disarming simply due to the different distances/radio path to each device from the sensor.
with a Yale 6200 alarm and wanted another working siren.
This is a copy of my email in response to his problem...
Hi ******,
I don't mind you emailing me at all. Yale will tell you that you cannot have two working sirens with the 6200 system which is siren based. Certainly as you have found you cannot add a siren into a 6200 system as you can an additional sensor etc.
There is however a way to get round this problem and have two working sirens with a 6200 system.
You have to set up the second siren NOT as an addition to the first system but as if you are installing it as the main alarm.
First remove the second siren cover.
Switch the siren off and then to clear the memory put dip switch 1 into the on position while holding the learn button down for a couple of seconds.. there may be a brief faint flash from the led's. Then switch the siren on and put dip switch 1 back into the off position and dip switch 4 in the on position.
What you do now is programme this siren exactly the same way you did your first one.
Press the learn button so you see the two outside leds' flash once.
Now simply go round your appartment and press the learn button on the sensors. You will hear the loft siren bleep each time you press one of the sensors learn buttons.
With the keypad you need to press the top left red button followed by your code. This will set the keypad in programming mode (indicated by flashing green led) . Now press the top left button again followed the number 1. This sends a learn signal to the loft siren you should hear it beep. Then simply press the green key on the keypad a couple of times until the green light goes solid and then turns off.
Your last job is to go back to the loft siren and press the learn button on it again. You should see the central led flash once and hear a beep.
You have now programmed the second siren. At this stage the siren may activate just use your keypad as normal..ie green then your code to silence it.
Replace the cover and then test your system.
When you press arm now you should hear a confrmation bleep and led flash from both sirens. press green and your code and you should hear a double bleep from both sirens.
You now have a 6200 system working with two sirens.
The easiest way to programme a 6200 with two sirens is to do it when you are first setting up with the devices and sirens out on the floor or a table.
Then you simply switch both sirens into learn mode at the same time and programme them together. You are in effect creating two seperate 6200 systems with the sirens as masters and then programming them to respond to common devices..
There may be a slight delay in the bleeps . ie one siren may bleep slightly before the other when arming or disarming simply due to the different distances/radio path to each device from the sensor.