RJ-31X Gremilins

[Bossman]

I've been having a rash of RJ-31X failures...either that or I'm losing
my mind. I've been installing RJ-31X jacks for about 15 years, and
rarely had a problem. Lately, it seems as if the internal jumper, or
whatever it's called, is stuck in the disconnect mode. In other words,
when you plug into the jack, the connection is no longer made in the
jack, it's made in the panel. When you unplug, the RJ-31X remakes the
connection in the jack. It seems that quite often lately, sometimes
more than once on the same job, the jack gets stuck in the
disconnected mode, as if the panel were still plugged in, and there is
no connection to the other pins for the house phones.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Is it just bad jacks?

Bossman

 

[A.J.]

Usually the internal pins jump track and not resting on the shorting bars.

 

[Mark Leuck]

I used to run into that with cheap cords and jacks made in Mexico

 

[Bossman]

I used to run into that with cheap cords and jacks made in Mexico

These have been coming with my Vista-15PMT kits from ADI.

 

[G. Morgan]

alt.security.alarms

I used to run into that with cheap cords and jacks made in Mexico

What, on both installs you did?


-Graham

Remove the 'snails' from my email

 

[Jim Rojas]

That makes sense...Ademco panels are manufactured in Mexico.

Jim Rojas

 

[Mark Leuck]

"Mark Leuck" <[email protected]> wrote in message

These have been coming with my Vista-15PMT kits from ADI.

Still possible since most of the other stuff from Ademco is from Mexico

 

[Mark Leuck]

alt.security.alarms



What, on both installs you did?


-Graham

No because I did three installs not two


dork

 

[Marty]

I'm attempting my first DSC installation and have run into a problem.
The panel is a Power832 series pc5010. All seems okay when assigning
the 5501z as a global keypad to slot 1, but when I exit assignment the
keypad shows the open zones, lights its trouble led and is unwilling to
enter installer programming. I have tried hardware defaulting the panel
and another 5501z keypad, but got the same results. If I press * (star)
and then keep the 2 key pressed for a few seconds "program" appears on
the right side of the lcd screen, but the keypad remains unresponsive.
What am I doing wrong?

 

[Marty]

That fixed the problem, the keypad now is assigned to partition 1, slot
1, and does respond to installer programming. Atta boy Doug. So much
for the pos, brain dead manual. I hope someone from DSC monitors this
group so that they can clean up their act. Thank you very much Doug.

 

[Dave Bannerman]

I'm attempting my first DSC installation and have run into a problem.
The panel is a Power832 series pc5010. All seems okay when assigning
the 5501z as a global keypad to slot 1, but when I exit assignment the
keypad shows the open zones, lights its trouble led and is unwilling to
enter installer programming. I have tried hardware defaulting the panel
and another 5501z keypad, but got the same results. If I press * (star)
and then keep the 2 key pressed for a few seconds "program" appears on
the right side of the lcd screen, but the keypad remains unresponsive.
What am I doing wrong?

How many keypads do you have and and what type? I know on the 5500Z
keypads on a 832 panel you need to have it on slot 8. A second keypad
could be in slot 7 if want to supervise it seperately.

 

[Mark Leuck]

Marty <[email protected]> wrote in message

How many keypads do you have and and what type? I know on the 5500Z
keypads on a 832 panel you need to have it on slot 8. A second keypad
could be in slot 7 if want to supervise it seperately.

One only has to be on slot 8 if you want to upload/download zone
descriptions, other than that they can be on any slot