Shadrack Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 (edited) Good day all! I hope you can help.. I inherited an old (12+ year) Texecom alarm 4 zone (I see all the current stuff is 8 zone expandable) this is 4 solid expandable.. so.. discontinued maybe? which I'd like to restore to working condition. The tenants of the place didn't know the code. The landlords didn't know the code. The battery is long gone so I replaced the 12v battery, reset to default, and checked all the wiring. The keypad is an LED model saying "Premier". So I plug the battery in, plug AC in, it turns on. Of course all the lights are red etc along with the Trouble light. I got into Engineers mode with ##REMOVED## Mode 9, then I set date and time (options 95 and 96 ) and it's happy. I've tried to reprogram the zones, which I have mapped to figure what is where. it's 5 zones, 2 wired into 1 (both are the doors so that's fine.) The doors are standard reed switches (one broken, gonna replace this weekend), one in good working condition. zone 2 is lounge passive PIR, zone 3 is the passage, zone 4 is the bedroom. All passives have their indicator lights which flick on when I am in front of it. so all wired up fine. Using engineer mode to test siren and strobe, that all works. I tried to program all the zones, but after I am done, all the zone lights I programmed stay lit. They do not "trigger" when I walk in front of that zone, nor do they turn off. I've reprogrammed multiple times and still the same. Any help would be amazing. I can supply more info if I've left anything out. The local alarm companies all say they won't reconfigure that unit and will happily rip it all out, dispose of it and install theirs, for a fee of course. (Yeah.. sure they'll be happy to do that..) not to mention they want to rip me off to even just come look at it. Thanks in advance everyone/anyone! Edited August 8, 2019 by sixwheeledbeast No codes please Quote
MrHappy Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, Shadrack said: The local alarm companies all say they won't reconfigure that unit and will happily rip it all out, dispose of it and install theirs, for a fee of course. (Yeah.. sure they'll be happy to do that..) not to mention they want to rip me off to even just come look at it. wow, a company want to charge for an employee to ride around in van looking at people alarms ? what a crazy world we live in... Quote Mr Veritas God
james.wilson Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 I doubt most would 'rip you off' but I'm sure all would charge to come out Quote securitywarehouse Security Supplies from Security Warehouse Trade Members please contact us for your TSI vetted trade discount.
Shadrack Posted August 8, 2019 Author Posted August 8, 2019 (edited) 4 minutes ago, james.wilson said: I doubt most would 'rip you off' but I'm sure all would charge to come out I live in South Africa so our currency is Rand, plus I live quite far away from the closest companies, they want between R500 and R600 to come have a look. excluding the work. a bit steep in my opinion considering they will add labour etc on top of that when they see it. Considering the newer LCD keypads are ~R1100, I could just double what they want and go get the new LCD keypad so I can at least see what's going on vs the LED keypad now. And considering when I DID hire someone to come do it a few years ago they charged R450 to look, R300 to "fix", they broke the strobe, which was working, broke a facia board, then said it's impossible to fix that unit and left. :/ So forgive me if I'm being critical of the experiences I've had trying to get it working Edited August 8, 2019 by Shadrack Quote
sixwheeledbeast Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 Maybe post some pictures of the panel, sounds like an old export model from what you have mentioned. Quote
datadiffusion Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 7 hours ago, sixwheeledbeast said: sounds like an old export model from what you have mentioned. Possible, personally I would wait for more evidence though. Quote So, I've decided to take my work back underground.... to stop it falling into the wrong hands
aissecur Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 (edited) Take a look at zone 3.... looks like two circuits may of been wired in parallel (is this the zone where there are two detection devices on?) - If there are two detectors on zone 3 then they must be wired in series Edited August 9, 2019 by aissecur Quote
aissecur Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 (edited) Its certainly an old panel, is there a yellow date stamp on the back of the panel pcb? (please only look if you are electrically competent and confident to do so) Edited August 9, 2019 by aissecur Quote
sixwheeledbeast Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 (edited) Looks like a Premier 412 Export. I can only suggest defaulting and programming again, there maybe something you have missed. You need to find out if it's the circuit or the panel is at fault and then from there if the panel detects the zones or if it's programmed incorrectly. If programming it may just be the circuit isn't in the correct area or something similar. We don't see the international series panels over here much so don't know the programming sequence in depth as a "normal" Prem. Also as above the two circuits will not operate correctly in parallel although you say the reed is bust on one so for now it should be ok for the one that works. Edited August 9, 2019 by sixwheeledbeast typos that made no sense... Quote
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