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I've finally gotten round to putting the recessed door contact (Knight A51MULTI G2) for the entry/exit rather than using the hallway PIR. I wired everything up and re-enabled zone 1 but it was displaying tamper. So I stripped back the contact and tested all the resistances 2.2 secure, 6.9 active, 1/0 tamper. I also checked the resistances at the alarm box to make sure I didn't have a break in the cable. To confirm I linked the contact circuit into Zone 6 which was spare and wintex diagnostics registers 2.2 secure (healthy). Finally to confirm Zone 1 I bridged and programmed zone 1 to always closed which returned an active state (unhealthy) Does it sound like Zone 1 is dead and I need to replace the board or could it be a common faults that can be rectified without a board replacement?

PSE can you program the fault inputs so it won't trigger the bell and alert the entire street there's a flat battery? Tamper on the bell, key panel, control panel is something to shout about but an issue with the battery that isn't a tamper isn't something that I would want to trigger a full alarm for.

There's not much information about the fault relay would it just be an open close circuit?

PSE would you recommend wiring it up to a spare zone setting it to fault like antinode said? The entire system going off for a non tamper/alarm event seems a bit much. Datadiffusion I wanted a quick disconnect batt/ac fail safe until I tested the system and made sure there weren't any gremlins. Didn't fancy trying to open a 115db sounder with a strobe going off if I had really messed up.

Thanks antinode that makes a lot more sense, didn't think about test times. The battery test is set to every 24 hours and it looks like I set the alarm up just after 12pm yesterday so it triggering a fault at 12:48 today fits somewhat into that pattern. I've disconnected the fault relay, bridged the aux/fault and will connect it to a zone when I've enabled to battery on the sounder. I think I'll give it to the weekend of fault free use before I enable it, up the sounder duration and connect it to a zone setup as fault like you said. If it's always going off there's no point having an alarm because everyone will ignore it. You've been a great help thanks.

I just went off the diagrams supplied in the ODY 3 manual, the board comes with a bridge across the aux/fault but I removed it because the fault relay went across it. the requirement of grade 3 is that battery status is monitored, I don't need it to be grade 3 but I didn't think it would hurt to follow the manual and have the additional level of monitoring. The fault relay is supposed to report faults to the panel (battery etc...). What I can't understand is that it took 5 hours to trigger a tamper and set the alarm, you would have thought any issue would have prevent the alarm from being set in the first place or triggered after set. The wiring I put in my post is directly copied from the texecom ody 3 manual.

I've installed a Texecom 24 Premier Elite at home currently with 4 zones (all PIR) for the time being. After finishing all the wiring, configuration, walk/bell tests etc... I first properly set the alarm yesterday to make sure there were no faults in the system and went out for few hours. Returning the system disarmed fine with no errors in the logs. I set the system today and came back this evening to have alerts. I plugged into the board with wintex and after the pulled the logs: 7:09:33 - Close - Armed 12:48:30 - Tampers - Auxiliary Tamper Alarm From Control Panel 12:48:31 - Bell Active 12:48:31 - Alarm Active 16:03:33 - Fob 16:03:38 - Open - Disarm I haven't enabled the battery jumper in the Ody yet just incase I need to cut power in the settling in time but I can't find any more details on the tamper/fault within Wintex. While plugged into the panel with the USB COM under the diagnostics > system I have: Auxiliary Tamper: Red Panel Lid Tamper: Red Engineer Working Red System Open: Red UDL Enabled: Red All enabled zones are Now: 2.19k, Healthy: 2.25k last active: 6.97k System Voltage: 13.82 V Battery Voltage: 13.67 V System Current: 0.257 A Equipment: 24 Premier Elite Premier Elite FMK Keypad Compact QD X4 (Hallway, Lounge, Kitchen, Landing) Premier Elite Odyssey 3 Wiring: DEOL to all PIRs Sounder as per the Premier Elite wiring diagram (A) +12V --> Red --> +12V (A) (B) Bell - --> Blue --> Bell (B) (C) Tamp --> Yellow --> Tamp (C) (D) 0V --> Black --> 0V (D) (S) Strb - --> Green --> Strb (S) Aux --> White --> Fault Relay Fault --> Orange --> Fault Relay I removed the bridge between the fault aux and fault with the fault relay now occupying this circuit. Does it look like I have a dodgy connection on the ODY fault relay, or is it at stupid the battery jumper needs to be enabled for the fault relay? Luckily I had lowered the bell duration to 5 minutes for the benefit of my neighbours just incase something like this happened.