More Galaxy 18 advice sought...

[tommybhoy]

Hi there, many thanks for the advice and help offered previously by the community. I have been away via work commitments since then and just getting back to where I left off with my alarm install.

I have in the past couple of days finished all the connections, I did a complete rewire same time as I rewired my flat but only now connected all to panel, set up all the zones and some other settings however I bought a viper and it wont stop flashing - like a dirty old man, it just stands there flashing away shamelessly - I now know however that he positive side connects to aux supply as normal and that the negative connection should be fed from a switched output - swinging to 12v momentarily upon panel reset - thus resetting the viper.

I have never seen anything like it but I do get why - however its the outputs on my panel that I am not so sure about, there are two outputs for one of the on-board rio's (rio 0) and four for the other (rio 1) but what output should I connect the negative supply to? I suppose it might not matter but perhaps I'll wire it to the 'set' terminal and set for 'pulse' and see if it works...but i'd certainly appreciate a wee bit of guidance here all the same, the hall Honeywell dual tech pir is also a pain...but I still have to go through its initialisation properly as yet so see how that goes...

p.s. forgive the edits...nursing a biblical hangover today...

Regards,

Tommy

 

[sparkymarka]

You can disable the led on the viper and set to auto reset, the led was for the good old days of having more than one viper on a zone so you could tell which one had activated.

 

[tommybhoy]

You can disable the led on the viper and set to auto reset, the led was for the good old days of having more than one viper on a zone so you could tell which one had activated.

Hi sparkymarka,

I removed the pcb link and connected 12v to the 'set' terminal as the viper guide suggests but it doesn't stop the led flashing once it was set off, I removed power and tried with the 12v link removed, pcb link in place etc - all possible combos in fact bit it just doesn't stop flashing but I did get it to be resettable by connectiong its 0v connection to an output though had to alter the pulse time to 2 secs (at least I think I set it for 2 secs..)

Success I guess but I would still rather have it auto-reset as I don't like the notion of a device being held open (a viper without power) while the system is arming.

I can only assume the viper is wonky as I have did exactly as suggested without success, though it does reset ok with momentary loss of its 0v connection - so a bit odd.

***edit - I am an idiot, I removed the double knock link - I re-read the guide and realised what I'd did, that's now reinstated and the correct wire pcb link has now been cut and 0v returned to permanent connection.

I blame the after effects of last night for the confusion...


Again, many thanks for the advice.

Regards,

Tommy