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Hi 9651, you did mention it wasn't pretty. My electrician suggested installing a veritas panel in the garage itself and letting that panel be a zone on the main house panel. Is this possible? Regards Vincent

Hi 9651, Have worked with relays in the past to set/unset two alarm panels at the same time as each other. I like the sound of your solution to the garage PIR problem. Please would you be able to supply a wiring diagram and a shopping list? Many Thanks in advance, everyone here is so helpful! Thanks Vincent

Hello all, I have a texecom veritas excel connected to a texecom speech dialler. I have a pir in each main area of the house. The garage has its own PIR on its own zone. I would like the garage zone to have its own trigger to the phone dialler. So I would be able to distinguish a garage break in from a whole house break in. The only way I can see of doing this is by making the garage zone a Fire zone but of course this won't work as this will mean its armed all the time and if I go in to the garage I would always set it off. Is there another way of having the garage zone trigger a different message? Thanks all Vincent

Hello breff, and all at the forum. Firstly, thanks for your great help, your explanation made a lot more sense than the diagram in the manual. The two bell boxes now activate together and also activate each other if one of them happens to be opened. All good there! However, the strobe will not work on either one of the boxes. I feel like the boxes must be receiving the signal to strobe, as I am still able to invoke a hold-off from the Veritas panel, but the strobes will not work on either box. I understand that the hold-off uses the strobe to invoke it so that the bell box can be opened without self-activating, so somewhere along the way they must be getting the command to strobe, they are just not strobing when testing the strobe. Is there any reason when using more than one bell box, that the strobes would stop testing? Please Help

Hi Breff, Thanks for your help. Is there a reason for wiring the second bell parallel with the first, at the panel, rather than at the first bell? Thanks

Hello Breff So just to be clear I will be left with two white cores at the panel end which should be joined together, but not connected to anything on the panel itself? Just making sure before going ahead!

Hello all, Long time listener, first time caller. I have helped friends with installs of the above system and have one at home. Due to a significant extension and driveway access to my house from both front and rear of the property I have decided on adding an extra sounder. I feel like the manual for the Texecom Odyssey 2 Sounder is missing a step, when showing how to wire two sounders while maintaining the tamper switches on both sounders. Could someone who has experience with wiring two texecom bell boxes please explain where I am going wrong here. Remove tamper wire from MSW 2 on first unit and connect to spare core. On second unit connect spare core into MSW 1 If I remove the microswitch wire from the MSW 2 terminal, do I leave the removed wire unconnected and wire the spare (white) wire into the empty MSW 2 terminal; leaving the wire that was in MSW 2 hanging? Also when connecting spare (white) core to MSW 1 on the second bell, do I leave the wire that is currently in MSW1 in place with the new wire? Kind Regards Sam