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The BT 600 is a nice little terminal expander used to keep the amount of wires limited in a terminal.

After several questions from customers asking, “how do I fit all these wires in one terminal”, we would like to introduce to you the Terminal Expander by ATW.

Lets say for example you have six wires in your “Aux -” and six wires in you “Aux +” terminals on you main control panel.  The BT-600 will allow you to eliminate that clutter.  You would run one wire from you “Aux -” to one side of the BT-600.  All the wires in your “Aux -” will go on the same side as the wire you ran.  The same goes for “Aux +”.  Each wire will have it’s own terminal and will allow for better connectivity and less clutter.

If you have multiple keypads or devices that require power, you can add another BT-600 for the data wires of your keypads and you clean up the terminals on the main board.  These are a great alternative to our 4 port wire connects or the 8 port wire connects.

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The Ademco 5800MICRA wireless recessed transmitter is for those people who would like a recessed wireless transmitter that is hidden from plain site. This device also helps save against voiding the warranty on your vinyl windows because you can shallow recess it without having to drill into anything.

A lot of people like the idea of a recessed transmitter for doors, but don’t like the standard ones that Honeywell makes because it requires drilling too deep of a hole in the door jamb. This small contact is easy to install and, at a depth of .33″, you don’t have to drill a very deep hole at all to fit it into the jamb of a door or the sill of a window.

This will allow you to have a recessed contact to protect your doors and windows from intrusion and, because of the transmitters small size, you won’t have to worry about voiding the warranty of door or window that you might be installing this in.

The batteries used to operate this transmitter are 3.0V Lithium Coin Cell Battery CR1620 and, depending upon usage, can last up to 10 years. All of the Honeywell alarm systems that can use 5800 series transmitters will also let you know when the batteries are going low so that you may change them out before they go dead on you.

This is a very slim, nice looking transmitter and is perfect for installations where you don’t want any of the perimeter transmitters to be seen. You can find the data sheet on the Honeywell 5800MICRA transmitter at the link below if you’d like to read the full specifications:

http://library.ademconet.com/MWT/fs2/5/6482.pdf

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We have had quite a few people calling in to ask whether the new Lynx Touch panels, the L5000 & L5100, will call out for self-monitoring purposes. Honeywell has been telling people that these panels will not do this. But we have tested this out here in the office and we do know for a fact that both of these panels will call to phone numbers for self-monitoring.

The Lynx touch panels will do what is called a follow me phone number. This will allow your alarm panel to dial two phone numbers beside a central station phone number. This is very useful if you do not want central station monitoring service right off the bat. You can have the Lynx call you in case of emergency and it will announce what exactly is being violated.

To achieve this you will need to hook a landline phone line into your panel. The Lynx panels have a built-in phone dialer and the terminals are located on the main circuit board. You will hook the phone line’s red and green wires into the panel just as in the diagram here:

Lynx Touch Phone Line Wiring

The other two posts are for going back out to the other phones in the house. If you run a line out from the panel to feed the other lines in your house then the Lynx panel should really be first in line.

Now, that you’ve gotten your phone line hooked into your Lynx panel; you will now need to program the panel to call out to the phone numbers so that you can receive notification.

You need to go into programming to accomplish this. First you will touch the “More” icon at the bottom-right of your home screen. Another screen will appear. You will see an icon labeled “Tools” and you will touch this icon. Now the system will ask for your installer code. Type this in with the numeric keypad that appears on this screen and hit the enter icon.

The next thing that you will see on your screen is a bunch of icons to different sections of the panels programming. The first thing that you want to do and programming is touch the program icon. Then you will choose system type. After choosing system type you will choose the remote phone icon and enable it. Now that we are done in this section you’ll hit the back arrow to return to the previous screen. Next you will choose the reporter icon in the menu. After choosing reporter you will choose phone one and then another screen will appear with one icon that says phone type. Touch the phone type icon and it will change to a new screen. You will now see that some type has changed to follow me. You will then touch the phone number I can’t and input the phone number that you want the Lynx panel to call when alarm condition occurs. After inputting the phone number in through the numeric keypad you will touch the done icon. You will now be back at the phone one menu screen. The next step that you need to take is to enable the reports that you want the panel to send when there is a condition. You can enable all of the reports by choosing the report all icon or you can select each one separately. You are now done with this set up for making the Lynx panel call you to receive notification. You can also input another number under phone two. Just repeat the steps above for phone two.

After these settings have been set up your panel will call out on alarm conditions or any condition that you have set up in the programming such as troubles or openings/closings. When the panel calls you it will voice announce what is being violated on your system and will ask you to press a certain key on your phone to stop the message. Now, keep in mind that, if someone disarms the system the panel will not make the phone call. If you have two numbers programmed into your Lynx panel and it dials out to the first number and then someone disarms the system it will not call the second number. This is a very useful feature and we are glad that we can help you understand a little better the functioning of the follow me feature.

I hope this has been informative for you. We do receive a lot of phone calls concerning this subject and we thought we would write about it for everyone’s general knowledge.

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If you have already exhausted the power output of terminals 3 & 4 on your Vista control panel then you can use trigger output 17 on your Vista board to trigger 1 additional siren by doing the following. You will need the wiring harness used for this purpose. The part number is Honeywell 4120TR:

1. Hook the negative of the siren to pin 1 on your Vista board
2. Hook the positive of the siren to pin 3 on your Vista board

Now, after you have hooked the siren to the trigger pins as instructed above you will have to go into programming and enter the following information. This programming will let the sirens differentiate between burglary and fire conditions because the siren pulses differently for each condition.

• Enter into programming by entering your installer code and 800 on your keypad. This will get you into programming. The steps that follow will set up trigger output 17 for use (Pins 1 & 3)
• Next, enter *79 into the keypad
  • You will then see “Enter Ouput No.”. Here you will enter 17*
  • You will then see “Norm Low=0”. Enter in 0*
  • You will enter 00* to exit program section 79
• You will then enter *80 into your keypad – This is the section of programming that will differentiate the pulses of the siren.
• You will see “Enter Ouput Funct #”. Enter 1*
  • You will then see a summary of the programming of that function. Press * again to continue.
  • You will then see “Activated by” . Since we want it to trigger for a zone type we will enter 2*
  • Now you will see “Enter zone type”. Here we will enter 33* (33 is for any burglary alarm)
  • You might then be asked “Partition” if you have a partitionable system. Enter in the partition that this pertains to.
  • You will then see “Output action”. You will then enter 2*
  • You will then see “Output No.”. This is asking for the output number. Ours is 17 so enter 17*
• You will see “Enter Ouput Funct #”. Enter 2*
  • You will then see a summary of the programming of that function. Press * again to continue.
  • You will then see “Activated by” . Since we want it to trigger for a zone type we will enter 2*
  • Now you will see “Enter zone type”. Here we will enter 39* (39 is for any fire alarm)
  • You might then be asked “Partition” if you have a partitionable system. Enter in the partition that this pertains to.
  • You will then see “Output action”. You will then enter 2*
  • You will then see “Output No.”. This is asking for the output number. Ours is 17 so enter 17*
• You will see “Enter Ouput Funct #”. Enter 3*
  • You will then see a summary of the programming of that function. Press * again to continue.
  • You will then see “Activated by” . Since we want it to trigger for a zone type we will enter 2*
  • Now you will see “Enter zone type”. Here we will enter 22* (22 is for disarming of the system)
  • You might then be asked “Partition” if you have a partitionable system. Enter in the partition that this pertains to.
  • You will then see “Output action”. You will then enter 0*(this stops the siren when system is disarmed)
  • You will then see “Output No.”. This is asking for the output number. Ours is 17 so enter 17*

This is how to set up the system to trigger one additional siren using the output pins on the board.

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Now you all may very familiar with GSM cellular communication for alarm system from your dealings with these systems in the past, but Honeywell is changing the game with their new GSMVLP5-4G GSM Cellular Communicator.

This new cell communicator for the Lynx Touch L5100 is used to send signal to a central station monitoring service. It will send signal over the 2G, 3G, and 4G networks that AT&T uses. This makes transmission lightning fast if these networks are available in your area. This communicator can only be used with the Lynx Touch L5100 and is not backwards compatible with the Lynx Touch L5000 or the Lynx Plus L3000

A lot of people worry about thieves cutting their phone lines. While it is not really a prevalent issue, it still can be a problem and that’s where the GSM communicator comes into play. If you have a phone line attached to your alarm panel and you think you might need a back up then the GSM communicator from Honeywell will be the best investment you can make. The GSMVLP5-4G can also be used as a primary communicator if you don’t have the option to run a landline.

Also, there are a number of people who have the misconception that these GSM communicators can be used to call them. That is not an option. There are some GSM communicators like the HAI C3 GSM cellular communicator that can be used for self-monitoring, but usually if it’s made by an alarm manufacturer it will most likely only be used to send signal to a central station monitoring service.

We really like this new edition Honeywell GSM communicators line and look forward to many more innovations coming in near future.

Honeywell 5883H Wireless Tranceiver

The Honeywell 5883H Wireless Tranceiver is for those who have alarm systems and have areas in their location that can’t be easily wired. If you have a wired system and a finished home then this add-on can help you expand your systems capability greatly.

The Ademco 5883H is a receiver and transmitter combined into one unit. Honeywell claims that this is a combination of the 5881ENH receiver and a 5800TM transmitter module. In a manner it is but there is a difference. The 5883H not only can handle the wireless transmitters in the 5800 series but it also can handle the 5839 keypads and any other Honeywell wireless device that accepts a site ID from the 5883H. Most wireless devices work on an RF House Code from the Vista panels, but some require retrieving a site ID from the receiver.

Honeywell’s website site states the a 5883H is nothing more than the combination of a 5881ENH and a 5800TM. This is not the case however because using a 5881ENH and a 5800TM together is not enough for devices that require a site ID. The duo of the receiver and the transmitter will not provide devices with a site ID. The 5883H is the only one that can. Also the 6160RF keypad, which Honeywell claims contains the same thing as a 5883H,  will only work with those devices that operate on RF house code and not with devices that accept a site ID.

If you are looking for an all-in-one transceiver then the 5883H is for you!