Texacom Premier Questions

[voicey]

Time for another question - sorry! I've installed the panel, powered up and programmed the system through the keypad (I couldn't get the USB com to work). I did the walk tests and the bell tests and all is good. However when I put the cover back on the panel and got out of engineers mode the alarm sounded and I got a bell tamper fault displayed on the keypad.

I have two bells (front and rear) and have wired them in the same way as my accord and in the sticky at the top of this section. This is what I have at the bells (ignore the extra red/black wires they are for additional comfort LEDs):

P1070088 by Aldous Voice, on Flickr

And this is what I have at the panel:

P1070092 by Aldous Voice, on Flickr

It's hard to see but I have...

- both red wires in the +ve.
- both blue wires in the Ring
- the black wire to the rear bell is in the 0v
- the yellow wire to the front bell is in the Tamp
- the remaining black and yellow wires are connected in the chocolate block.

Can anyone see where I've gone wrong please?

 

[secureiam]

you say you have wired them correctly, so either the tampers are not closing or you have a break.

disconnect the second bell, can you get the first bell on its own secure?

 

[voicey]

So it looks like I might actually have a fault with the wiring for the rear bell. I have an open circuit between the black and yellow wires going to it. I intend to do some more investigating once I've picked my daughter up from school....

 

[secureiam]

17:00 school run?

 

[voicey]

17:00 school run?

After school club.....

So I disconnected the rear bell and tested the black/yellow wires for continuity - they were fine. So I reconnected everything as I had and it has now started working. Perhaps I had a dodgy connection somewhere.

Thanks to all for your help. I can now move onto customising the settings and adding a couple more zones. First up is to work out how to stop the dreadful noise when setting for night time and to allow the master user to reset faults.

 

[sparkymarka]

Usb com ..... Look in device manager on your PC/ laptop it will have given it a comm port number , you need to set this in the top tab in wintex for it to work, you may have to download the drivers aswell !

 

[voicey]

Usb com ..... Look in device manager on your PC/ laptop it will have given it a comm port number , you need to set this in the top tab in wintex for it to work, you may have to download the drivers aswell !

Thanks - I can't even get that far as the drivers for the cable wont load from the CD-Rom....

 

[voicey]

I got the USB Com working. For anyone who stumbles across this thread in the future, when you install Wintex onto your computer it drops the latest drivers onto your c:\ drive. The ones that worked with windows 7 were in C:\Program Files (x86)\Texecom\Wintex\USB-Com\Windows x64. I just pointed device manager to that folder and bingo!

A have one further question - when I put the panel into engineers mode and remove the cover I get some mild bleeping from the keypad and internal speaker. There aren't any messages on the keypad. Does anyone know what it is warning me of?

Cheers...

 

[secureiam]

Mild beeping as soon as you take the lid off, is to warn you you've taken the lid off...?

If you do it outside of engineering you will get a tamper alarm.

 

[voicey]

Mild beeping as soon as you take the lid off, is to warn you you've taken the lid off...?

Thanks - this is my first alarm install and my only previous experience is with the old Accord and it didn't do this.

I now have the alarm working as I want it, including the extra zones. I'd like to say a big thank you to all who assisted in this thread and sorry for the stupid questions!

 

[Europlex]

No such thing as a stupid question.

 

[voicey]

One final question - I promise! I've tried to keep everything neat and tidy in the panel and have labelled all the cables. I also have spare cables running to the 1st floor for when that gets re-decorated and I can put in a few more sensors. I have even put in a telephone cable between the panel and the incoming BT socket in case I want to add coms.

Is there anything else I should do now in order to make things easier for me in the future (and I've forgotten how it's wired) or indeed if the house has a new owner?

When I opened the Accord for the first time it was an utter mess and took ages to figure out how it worked...

Alarm Panel by Aldous Voice, on Flickr

 

[sparkymarka]

Cat 5/6 to router ?