Texecom Expander

[jeeves]

I am working out what I need for a fresh alarm install at home.

Buildings consist of house and annex/garage, so I have decided on classing these as 2 distinct areas.

The annex/garage is one physical building (2 rooms), I was hoping to run one cable from the main panel to a zone expander (8XP) in the annex/garage and then have multiple PIRs in the annex/garage wired to the 8XP.

My question relates to a keypad / sounder, is it possible to add these to the 8XP or do I need to run another cable back to the main panel in the house?

Thanks in advance

 

[sparkymarka]

Keypad slaves off the expander bus line , sounder can be wired from expander ...BUT you may need an extra power supply depending on how many devices you are putting on the expander

 

[secureiam]

Run two cables anyway?

That said you only need 4 cores, so you could run 8 core as long as they remain intact?

 

[jeeves]

Thank you both. I guess it wouldn't be too effort much to run another cable at the same time. I'll take another look at that.

Another quick question about the RM8 Relay module; can the outputs be programmed to activate when a zone (eg. single PIR) is triggered? Is this possible regardless of the armed state of the alarm.

Example being a relay would trigger if a PIR detected a person, even if the alarm is in home/safe mode? Also presumably each panel is limited to a single RM8 module?

Many thanks!

 

[sparkymarka]

Zone mimic ...