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    Prisoner in Home - alarm system Safewatch Pro 2000 @ Stay

    It's impossible for your panel to still have keypad and siren working after you've "unplugged it and disconnected battery." My best guess is that you unplugged a transformer for some other device than the alarm system panel. The "Safewatch Pro 2000" transformer is a beige 16.5 VAC (usually...
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    Ademco vista 10se won't alarm when sensor issue event

    Oops. I had another look at the OP and realized I left out something important. Sorry! If you arm an Ademco/( now Honeywell) Vista-10SE in AWAY mode and then don't open a door during the Exit time, the system automatically reverts to STAY mode of arming. That's a feature that saves a lot of...
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    Ademco vista 10se won't alarm when sensor issue event

    As far as I can tell from your description, your Ademco Vista-10SE's behavior is normal. When you arm your system, STAY or AWAY, the Control Panel automatically starts an Exit Delay timer, during which it will ignore any door programmed as an Entry/Exit door. It will also ignore your motion...
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    VISTA 15P - CHECK I07 MESSAGE

    You're welcome, glad I could help. Thanks for letting us know the outcome. Feedback always helps me know that I'm giving good advice. Over the years on DIY forums, I've seen a lot of Users try to "fly blind" in *56 programming without an Alpha Keypad. It rarely ends well. Could have been...
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    Honeywell Vista-20 programming questions

    Sadly, there is no easy way to interrogate the Panel from a keypad, about existing User numbers or User Codes. (Note for future reference: In alarm tech jargon, "panel" always refers to the Control Panel, not a keypad. There is only one Panel in any system.) There is software for a PC, Compass...
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    How to circuit a motion sensor to drive 30 amp relay

    I know. I've worked with the PIRs used in the alarm industry since they were introduced, sometime in the late '70's I believe. The PIRs used to switch lighting are less expensive and, I infer, less discriminating in what they'll interpret as "motion." Contemporary PIRs used in the alarm...
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    VISTA 15P - CHECK I07 MESSAGE

    You're right, and that was my error about the 5882 Receiver. I tend to forget the RF Keypads when my focus is on something else. I realized my false assumption when I saw the wires on 4,5,6,7.
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    VISTA 15P - CHECK I07 MESSAGE

    The Control Panel looks for a hardwire zone expander if you program any zone as an "Auxilliary Wired" (AW) zone in *56 Zone Programming. I have to assume you have a two-line Alphanumeric Keypad, a 6160 or equivalent, even though the picture in your first post shows a Fixed-Language Keypad...
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    VISTA 15P - CHECK I07 MESSAGE

    "CHECK/VERIFIER 107" indicates that there is a trouble with a Hardwired Zone Expander programmed for Address 7, either a 4219 or 4229 PCB wired to your Vista-15P Control Panel, usually in or near the Panel's cabinet. The Hardwired Expander is connected to your Panel (the Vista-15P) on the same...
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    Beeping from disconnected system

    If you're talking about a home security system (aka alarm system), the brand name and model number would be helpful. User instructions are different for different models.
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    How to circuit a motion sensor to drive 30 amp relay

    What Bluejets said, plus...common light-switching motion sensors use PIR (Passive InfraRed) sensors to detect motion. However, hot spots like heat registers, radiators, direct sunlight, metal surfaces in direct sunlight, and stove tops can simulate the conditions that PIRs interpret as motion...
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    Napco R1000 Wireless Receiver

    I used to work with your model panel back with it was new, in the 90's. I wish you luck in finding those items. Napco is a good brand, but they got started using RF (wireless) late in the game, and those models were in production (IINM) for only a few years before Napco discontinued them when...
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    Need something for just switching between 3 lights

    I did a quick Google sortie and found that the older incandescent traffic lights in the UK do indeed use 230V, and consume about 50W; but the newer LED lights use a safer 48V and consume about 17W. According to my quick look. www.somerset.gov.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=85320 So if...
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    Caddx ranger 8800 home alarm system problems

    If cutting AC power--I assume you do that by unplugging the 16VAC 20VA transformer?--silences the alarm, then it sounds like your Control Panel (not the keypad) battery is dead. A dead or very weak battery gives unpredictable results when the panel is powered up. When was the last time you...
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    Comedy Thread

    So, expert = formerly pert? Maybe before having to sit through a boring lecture? exhale = "formerly healthy" example = "formerly sufficient" exhume = formerly of Hume, Australia, before moving abroad exchange = formerly transmogrifying but now stable and boring expend = hung already
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    How takeover of the control done in standby redundant system?

    You do realize that with dual windings, you've turned your rotor into a transformer, right? Assuming you have the same number of windings for each PCB, voltage from one PCB will induce approximately the same voltage on the other PCB. Assuming You're using DC Voltage, it still induces induces an...
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    Replace 9Volt Battery with Solar Panel

    That's a good idea, IF it's practical to run wires to the motion sensors; OP has implied a control center for the system, which most likely has its own low-voltage DC power supply somewhere, if it's anything like the equipment I work with. If running wires to the motion sensors is...
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    Replace 9Volt Battery with Solar Panel

    If you use Energizer's (or equivalent) Lithium 9V non-rechargable battery, it would extend the time between battery changes, probably by several years. I'm familiar with security system RF (wireless) PIR motion sensors that send signals to RF Receivers that pass them on to control panels that...
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    Secret Mission Motion Sensor

    Maybe Adam IS the Ninja. 0_0
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    Secret Mission Motion Sensor

    Adam, sorry I didn't respond to this thread before now. Are you still looking for advice, or have you already decided on how to build your project?
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