texecom veritas 8 install

[Leesparkykent]

For the ones that are experienced with alarms out there I would appreciate some advice. I've done a few alarms over the years (never a texecom) but looking to gain a bit more experience on them.

I'm building a new office/workshop in my garden to save a few quid and getting rid of the unit I've had over the last few years. my plan is to install a texecom veritas 8 alarm.

I've attached a rough diagram of my thoughts. looking for ideas where the alarm can be improved i.e position of PIR's etc and would appreciate a bit of an idiots guide on how to wire/connect it all up especially as I need two keypads as two entrances and I've never had to do this before and never touched a texecom alarm before.

I've chosen the texecom alarm as I've seen it recommended many times on here.

thanks Lee.

 

[ruston]

Cheers ruston ill have a look in to that.

They really are a versatile and easy panel to fit.
The only thing to watch for is the tampers spring in the panel and keypads, give them a bit of a stretch .
I have had problems with them in the past , but they may have sorted that by now.

 

[Leesparkykent]

They really are a versatile and easy panel to fit.
The only thing to watch for is the tampers spring in the panel and keypads, give them a bit of a stretch .
I have had problems with them in the past , but they may have sorted that by now.

Cheers mate. I've just been looking at the installation manual and looks easy enough....Tampers in series, power fed from aux + & - and alarm connections comes from each zone. Keypads are addressable from the dip switches and the rest is just programming the panel which ill have to get my head round :crazy:

 

[ruston]

Piece of cake for you lol.
Have fun.:biggrin:

 

[telectrix]

the purists will shoot me down here, but anyway..... for the series connections of the global tampers in the panel, i have always just twisted then together, end folded back and fitted about 1" of sleeving. done them this way for 30 years and never seen a joint fail.

 

[Leesparkykent]

the purists will shoot me down here, but anyway..... for the series connections of the global tampers in the panel, i have always just twisted then together, end folded back and fitted about 1" of sleeving. done them this way for 30 years and never seen a joint fail.

I was thinking Ill probably use them push down gel connectors for the tamper connections.

 

[telectrix]

I was thinking Ill probably use them push down gel connectors for the tamper connections.

only if you strip the insulation first. those connectors pierce insulation on telephone cables as it's solid. they don't work so well on stranded, esp. the thin crap alarm cable that's supplied nowadays

 

[Leesparkykent]

from what I gather zone 2 is already set to entry/exit so ill use that as workshop zone and ill put office A on zone 1 and have to program that to entry/exit by entering the programming mode (1234 when panel is unset), press prog, enter (2) (1), press (1) to include zone 1 as entry/exit, press prog, system should then chime to indicate its been accepted then press reset to exit installer/programing mode unless I want to programme something else.

 

[Megavolt]

Fit a premier range. Wont cost you must more and will give you more flexibility

 

[ruston]

You can allocate any zone you want from the programming as an E/E zone.
Zone 1 used to be the E/E zone , they must of changed that, zone 2 used to be the inhibited zone .That allows you 'a walk through' as long as the E/E has been activated.

 

[telectrix]

from what I gather zone 2 is already set to entry/exit so ill use that as workshop zone and ill put office A on zone 1 and have to program that to entry/exit by entering the programming mode (1234 when panel is unset), press prog, enter (2) (1), press (1) to include zone 1 as entry/exit, press prog, system should then chime to indicate its been accepted then press reset to exit installer/programing mode unless I want to programme something else.

think you'll find it's pre programmed as zone 1 E/E and zone 2 inhibited.

 

[KWCFC]

Dont know if Texecom Veritas do it but you'll be a lot better off wiring the detectors EOL rather than going down the global tamper route. As soon as you have a tamper fault on a detector you going to be wasting a lot of time trying to narrow it down.

I wouldn't even consider fitting a double pole alarm these days.

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[Leesparkykent]

think you'll find it's pre programmed as zone 1 E/E and zone 2 inhibited.

Yeah that's right Tel I looked at it wrong earlier...Ill put my cap on and sit in the corner lol:biggrin5:

 

[Paul.M]

Lee do yourself a favor and get the Premier. LED display RKP's makes life easier. Also, do you need telephone monitoring?

 

[telectrix]

Lee do yourself a favor and get the Premier. LED display RKP's makes life easier. Also, do you need telephone monitoring?

don't you mean LCD, paul? :90:

 

[Paul.M]

don't you mean LCD, paul? :90:

Thanks for making that "Crystal" clear lol....... it's late, leave me alone.