Guest miketubby Posted November 9, 2004 Posted November 9, 2004 Hi, I'm putting a Galaxy system in to my house. I purchased a Galaxy 500 brand new, in box, on Ebay for £100 including 3A smart PSU, telecom module and Mk7 keypad which I thought was a reasonable deal. The kit is as described, the only problem is that Galaxy 500 has 2.31 firmware and I want to use it with an Ethernet module which requires version 4.xx. I have quite a lot of zones (13 PIRs, 11 door contacts, 3 smoke detectors, 2 PA switches, 2 keypads, 1 keyswitch, etc.) - to run off in various directions from the control panel in the garage. I was going to run a "downstairs" line with a couple of RIOs, a "upstairs" line with a RIO and a line to the outbuildings with a RIO. The Galaxy 500 would have been ideal. Received wisdom (from this site) suggests that my Galaxy 500 PCB is too old to run version 4.xx software and needs to be replaced... does anyone know what the actual issue is that stops an older 500 PCB from running 4.xx - can the PCB be modified? I have been given a Galaxy 60 PCB (hardware rev 1.72, software 4.10) which is an alternative solution, however it means running a single long RS485 databus/daisy-chain around the whole property which means more wires, more drilling, etc. I liked the idea of having three busses, but could manage with two - I'n not sure if having everything on a single bus (with Gaxaly 60) is a good idea, eg. covering the outbuildings... one large daisy-chain seems a bit like a single point of failure... especially if the wire were cut and 12V supply shorted out... I want to be able to program zones as 'fire', as well as all the usual stuff. I want to be able to use the telecom module for ARC and/or SMS and I need the Ethernet module. All of this suggests that I would be best running pretty up-to-date version 4 software like 4.37, 4.39 or 4.50 (which I think is current). I appear to have several options: 1. See of the Galaxy 500 PCB can run version 4.xx, even if it needs to be 'fixed' 2. Use the Galaxy 60 and single bus - do I upgrade the firmware? If so what to - can I run 4.50 on the board I have? I can program EPROMs... can I get a dump of the firmware from somewhere? 3. Get a new PCB, in which case would a Galaxy 128 with ver 4.50 be the best bet (price/convienence trade off) as this would appear to give me a line for the house and a line for the out buildings? Ideas/advice/thoughts sought... Regards Mike
Guest Posted November 9, 2004 Posted November 9, 2004 go with the 60,tho you will need a v5.0 and above comms mod to send sms.. honest...
Guest miketubby Posted November 11, 2004 Posted November 11, 2004 go with the 60,tho you will need a v5.0 and above comms mod to send sms..honest... 30830[/snapback] Okay, I've done some more horse trading and now have a Galaxy 500 version 4.39 PCB which I'm going to swap in, replacing the 2.31 version... so that bit is fixed. My telcom module says V4.00 on the EPROM... can I swap the EPROM for a V5.0 prom... need the SMS bit to work... Also - I haven't checked yet in the programing manual - is it possible to configure the telecom module for outgoing calls only - I want to hook it across an Ex-directory line that I have which is used for something else incoming and I don't want it to answer calls Mike
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