ADT Galaxy Upgrade - looking for suggestions

[gingerangles]

Check to see if your keypad or Rio has two cables going to it. It may be that the installer has the bus from a+b and power going to the device and then coming back to the panel casing and connecting to the other devices cable. Eg. From panel a+b to keypad and from keypad back to the panel where it's joined to a cable going to the Rio.

I'll flick open the ROI and have a look what's going on in there!

You can keep the sensor power wiring the same in the terminal block and just wire to the left hand vertical power connections. This will keep your zone wiring tidy at least and avoid the need for cramming four 0v wires in each panel terminal.

Nice one - like you say keeps things tidy and saves a load of messing about!

 

[gingerangles]

So... Taken the SAB connections off and powered the Hold... but I dont actually need to... the siren only sounds for a few seconds then dies... new battery needed in siren?

 

[GalaxyGuy]

Usually replacing the complete sounder is best. Texecom X-B are pretty decent.

 

[gingerangles]

Ah OK...

That bundle of terminal blocks I asked about has turned out to be an unnecessary extention to the ROI cable... the ROI cable was grounded to the cabinet before... will this still need grounding somewhere?

 

[GalaxyGuy]

Generally not on short domestic runs under 100m.

 

[gingerangles]

OK Cool... I'll just terminate it then.

1st Snag... The new unit has 2 sets of zone connectors it appears labelled ROI OO (4 Zones) and ROI 01 (8 Zones)… I've started wiring the zones as they were on the old unit from left to right which has meant I have zones 5-8 now spare on the ROI 01...

Is that right? Do I simply need to put resistors across these or should I have started at Z1 on ROI 01 bank of connectors?

 

[gingerangles]

Pic...

 

[GalaxyGuy]

It doesn't matter. All zones are fully programmable. It's best practice to place a 1k resistor across any unused zones. Although they get programmed as 'spare', adding the resistor makes the engineering exit sequence faster when it checks for tampers.

 

[gingerangles]

Cool ta...

Any last advise before I power on???

 

[gingerangles]

OK... all powered up and it's not blown up.

1st issue is that it doesn't seem to be picking up the Zones of the ROI. I have been through the programming as renamed all the ones connected to the panel and 'spared' the last 4 (Z15-Z18). Ive run #61 on the ROI and getting a 13 odd volt result...

how do I get it to include the Zones of the ROI?

 

[GalaxyGuy]

Are you seeing all the RIO's ? There are two on-board and the one you've connected remotely. What is the LED on the remote RIO doing ? It should be giving a quick flash the same as the red LED on the panel.

Have you addressed the external RIO to address 2 as 0 and 1 are on-board.

 

[gingerangles]

Steady state flash on the remote ROI LED.

Have you addressed the external RIO to address 2 as 0 and 1 are on-board.

No? How do I do that?

I think it is seeing the on-board ROIs as I have Z1-4 and Z11-18 so I'm assuming thats the 12 on-board connections.

 

[gingerangles]

Is that the rotary switch on the ROI? Can I just change that or do I need to power down? (If so how do I do that? )

 

[GalaxyGuy]

I think it picks up live, so change the rotary, then scan devices using auto detect menu 72.

 

[gingerangles]

OK, thats picked up an additional module... there are 6... presumably Panel, ROI, SAB, Keypad, speakers? what's the 6th?

When I try to get out of engineer mode get a power fault "ROI 100 Batt Test Fail". New battery for the main panel then?