Hi all,
First post! Firstly thanks for all the advice people have previously posted on here, it has been incredibly helpful in the past!
I have just installed my first Texecom Elite 24. All appears to be working fine, however I am having an issue when installing internal extension speakers!
I have 4 of these Kinetic 16 Ohm Mylarcone Extension Speakers (https://www.alertelectrical.com/kin...AuqXmlbQIlzXegIZ06nomIjuv49yofqxoC6isQAvD_BwE)
The idea of having them is to act mainly as a nuisance to any possible intruder, so ideally, I would like them to activate when the alarm activates.
These speakers only have 2 wires - a black and red.
I initially wired the speaker red wire to the PCB External sounder connection 12V+ and the black wire to the PCB SPK (loudspeaker Connection). The internal speaker for the PCB is already wired at these connections.
When I added one or two of the Extension Speakers to these connection points - the issue I have is that after about 10 seconds the volume of the speakers goes right down as though they are fading. If I remove the internal speaker wire, and only use one Extension speaker, it works fine. If i remove the internal speaker wire and use two extension speakers, I get the same fading issue!
I found a hack which is as follows (basically created a loop):
Red wire from PCB 12V+ to speaker 1 +ve
Wire from Speaker 1 -ve to Speaker 2 +ve
Black wire from Speaker 2 to PCB SPK
When I do this it works fine, but I didn't set up my wiring to allow for this to occur easily!
I tried to assign Panel Output 1 to "Alarm" via wintex, but this did resulted in no sound at all.
So my questions are:
Have i done something wrong with my initial wiring?
Is it possible to add more than one extension speaker?
Is the hack the "proper" way to do it?
Many many thanks!!
First post! Firstly thanks for all the advice people have previously posted on here, it has been incredibly helpful in the past!
I have just installed my first Texecom Elite 24. All appears to be working fine, however I am having an issue when installing internal extension speakers!
I have 4 of these Kinetic 16 Ohm Mylarcone Extension Speakers (https://www.alertelectrical.com/kin...AuqXmlbQIlzXegIZ06nomIjuv49yofqxoC6isQAvD_BwE)
The idea of having them is to act mainly as a nuisance to any possible intruder, so ideally, I would like them to activate when the alarm activates.
These speakers only have 2 wires - a black and red.
I initially wired the speaker red wire to the PCB External sounder connection 12V+ and the black wire to the PCB SPK (loudspeaker Connection). The internal speaker for the PCB is already wired at these connections.
When I added one or two of the Extension Speakers to these connection points - the issue I have is that after about 10 seconds the volume of the speakers goes right down as though they are fading. If I remove the internal speaker wire, and only use one Extension speaker, it works fine. If i remove the internal speaker wire and use two extension speakers, I get the same fading issue!
I found a hack which is as follows (basically created a loop):
Red wire from PCB 12V+ to speaker 1 +ve
Wire from Speaker 1 -ve to Speaker 2 +ve
Black wire from Speaker 2 to PCB SPK
When I do this it works fine, but I didn't set up my wiring to allow for this to occur easily!
I tried to assign Panel Output 1 to "Alarm" via wintex, but this did resulted in no sound at all.
So my questions are:
Have i done something wrong with my initial wiring?
Is it possible to add more than one extension speaker?
Is the hack the "proper" way to do it?
Many many thanks!!
