Shock sensors - how to wire to a zone

[nimarchetti]

I'm helping a friend plan his alarm system as he is having an extension built and there is the opportunity to get all the wiring in place. I installed my own Texecom Premier 48 a year or two ago with help from this forum and it was a great success.

The question is around window shock sensors/vipers? Should these be wired independently as zones (one per zone) or combined in some way (series wiring?) so there are multiple sensors per zone?

We are probably looking at a Texecom Premier Elite 48 control panel, and maybe the texe impaq sensors? PIRs in each room as well...

I have read mention of 'First to Alarm' and 'Latch' functionality in the shock sensors, but haven't found a nice easy description of what this means!

Thanks for any help

Nik

 

[sparkymarka]

If you can wire each shock to a zone, if you are limited to available zones run each one back to the control panel and join out in the panel as this will be better if you ever have a fault on one , run 8 core to shock sensors if you are thinking of having more than one on a zone.

 

[EightyTwo]

I agree. One per zone is always best.

If you wire several vipers on a single zone and use the latching option, you will also need to use an output to reset all the vipers before you can set the alarm - it's a lot of complication and messing about just to save on a few zones... It won't make your friend's life easier!