Veritas Panel - Last Minute Wiring Doubts About Pirs

[Guest KenW]

I've had last minute doubts about whether I'm wiring up correctly. I have separate quad PIRs in the lounge , dining room and kitchen. At the Texecom Veritas control panel, each PIR's alarm wires (red and black for my Texecom system) are taken to a separate pair of zone terminals (Lounge to zone3, dining room to zone 4 and kitchen to zone 5). From the three incoming cables, each white wire (12V) is taken to the Aux +ve terminal and each green wire (0V) is taken to the Aux -ve terminal. Will this arrangement be OK or must I attach all three PIRs to one zone?

I intend to connect the yellow and blue wires (tamper) in series along with the yellows and blues from my two magnetic detectors as part of a global system tamper. This latter point is also causing a bit of head scratching and forms the basis for another post.

[PJF]

Your doing fine, one device per zone.With the Global tamper your spot on.

[bellman]

I've had last minute doubts about whether I'm wiring up correctly. I have separate quad PIRs in the lounge , dining room and kitchen. At the Texecom Veritas control panel, each PIR's alarm wires (red and black for my Texecom system) are taken to a separate pair of zone terminals (Lounge to zone3, dining room to zone 4 and kitchen to zone 5). From the three incoming cables, each white wire (12V) is taken to the Aux +ve terminal and each green wire (0V) is taken to the Aux -ve terminal. Will this arrangement be OK or must I attach all three PIRs to one zone?

I intend to connect the yellow and blue wires (tamper) in series along with the yellows and blues from my two magnetic detectors as part of a global system tamper. This latter point is also causing a bit of head scratching and forms the basis for another post.

Yes this is ok and the new detector wires the same way, DON'T under any circumstances connect more than one detector to a zone. otherwise you won't know which detector caused the alarm if it activates for any reason.

as for the global tamper, just remove the last wire in the loop that goes into the control panels tamper connector and connect one of the tamper wires from the new detector in there instead, then join the wire you removed from the panel tamper connector to the remaining wire from the new detector and bobs your uncle

Regards

Bellman

[Guest KenW]

Wow, two replies in about five minutes! Thanks PJF and Bellman. I've just posted a question about the order of connecting the tamper loops but I think I'm beginning to get the hang of it. It depends on the answer to my new "tamper" post.