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Hi all,

 

I have had experience with alarms before as I work for an alarm installation company (which have now moved onto CCTV).  After installing a Texecom Premier 24 in a previous dwelling I opted to go for the Premier Elite 48-W for our new house complete with a single keypad, Texecom bellbox, 4 Impaq Contact-W, 7 Impaq Shocks and 7 QD-Ws. I have been back and fourth with a Texecom representative regarding an issue with an error Network 1 - Exp 1 lost, this then appears for Exp2 and Exp3 with the sounders going. This panel has expanders actually on the circuit board so I cannot figure out where the fault lies. Texecoms answers were simply to check its not in commissioning mode and so on. I have the CommIP module connected to Comm2, this does drop connection from time to time but apart from that its fine. I haven't wired up the bellbox yet as an outside cover wasn't included, I had the tampers linked out but this didn't help either.

 

 

 

Does someone know any better than me who can advise? I have attached a log file and a couple of images. All the shocks and contacts have had the commissioning jumper removed too, this has been double checked.

 

Thanks

Gavin

 

 

Elite48W1.jpg

 

 

Elite48W2.jpg

 

 
0390    18:45:20    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A . . .     Network 1 - Exp 1 Lost
0391    18:45:20    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A B . .     Zone 010 Tamper Alarm - Front Door Door Contact
0392    18:45:20    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A B . .     Zone 012 Tamper Alarm - Living Room Shock Sensor
0393    18:45:20    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A B . .     Zone 013 Tamper Alarm - Patio Door Door Contact
0394    18:45:20    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A . . .     Zone 014 Tamper Alarm - Living Room PIR (Left)
0395    18:45:20    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A . . .     Zone 015 Tamper Alarm - Hallway PIR
0396    18:45:20    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A B . .     Zone 016 Tamper Alarm - Spare Room Shock Sensor (L)
0397    18:45:21    09/02/2013    Test Start    . B . .     Alarm Active
0398    18:45:21    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A . . .     Network 1 - Exp 2 Lost
0399    18:45:21    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A B . .     Zone 017 Tamper Alarm - Spare Room Shock Sensor ®
0400    18:45:21    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A . . .     Zone 018 Tamper Alarm - Spare Room PIR
0401    18:45:21    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A B . .     Zone 019 Tamper Alarm - Master Bedroom Shock Sensor
0402    18:45:22    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A . . .     Zone 020 Tamper Alarm - Master Bedroom PIR
0403    18:45:22    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A . . .     Zone 021 Tamper Alarm - Rosa's Room PIR
0404    18:45:22    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A B . .     Zone 022 Tamper Alarm - Rear Bathroom Shock Sensor
0405    18:45:22    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A . . .     Zone 023 Tamper Alarm - Kitchen PIR
0406    18:45:22    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A B . .     Zone 024 Tamper Alarm - Kitchen Shock Sensor
0407    18:45:23    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A . . .     Network 1 - Exp 3 Lost
0408    18:45:24    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A B . .     Zone 025 Tamper Alarm - Kitchen Door Door Contact
0409    18:45:24    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A B . .     Zone 026 Tamper Alarm - Loft Shock Sensor
0410    18:45:24    09/02/2013    Tamper Alarms    A . . .     Zone 028 Tamper Alarm - Shed Door Contact
0411    18:45:24    09/02/2013    Alarm    A B . .     Zone 026 24hr Audible Alarm - Loft Shock Sensor
0412    18:45:28    09/02/2013    Not Reported    A B C D     System Access by User 00 - Engineer
0413    18:45:54    09/02/2013    Not Reported    A B C D     System Access by User 00 - Engineer
0414    18:45:54    09/02/2013    Open    A . . .     Reset After Alarm by Engineer Reset
0415    18:45:54    09/02/2013    Maint. Alarm    A B . .     Installer Programming Start
0416    18:46:04    09/02/2013    Maint. Alarm    A B . .     Site Data Changed 
0417    18:46:13    09/02/2013    Maint. Alarm    A B . .     Installer Programming End
0418    19:12:37    09/02/2013    Not Reported    A B . .     System Access by User 02 - Gavin
0419    19:12:37    09/02/2013    Open    A B . .     Door Access by User 02 - Gavin
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Would start by tidying up the panel first making sure everything's tight, lose the extra twin and earth - replace for flex and affix to backplate for safety.

Battery date?

Data line with mains ?

If the expanders are onboard I would say its a pcb fault.

Try defaulting system and learning them in again or swap out the pcb.

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what happened before event 0390 ?

Indeed, also do you have a multi meter and do you know how to use it? Also as mentioned tidy up the wiring, sheath the earth cable from the T&E going into the connector block, and what is the stray yellow wire behind the battery?

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As above, you appear to have loads of RF inducing cables close to the panel, along with cat5 or data, remove excess mains cabling within the panel, maybe some old rubber sheathed cable close, and a bare ended T+E as well-you need to tidy up before you can narrow it down tbh.

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Wow, lots of replies already, thanks!

 

Here is the full log file, had to reduce the size of the message as it was too big.

http://77.101.116.153/log.txt

 

The battery was purchased around December 2012 so its as new as it can be. There is very little actually in the panel at present - just the cat5e, power, battery and keypad cable. The bare wire to the left of the panel isn't live, made sure of this before installing but its wrapped around the rest of the mains cables and I don't have the confidence to mess about with live wires too much. I have defaulted once and relearnt all the modules but the same thing happened (this was suggested by Texecoms support personnel, I forgot to mention it before)

 

I can get the power cable shortened and sheathed, the stray yellow wire is the link I took out of the tamper circuits as it didn't make any difference.

I can probably shift the panel over to the right a bit, the electrics on the whole are extremely shoddy, even down to using an old 80s fuse board but I have run ethernet powerline adapters successfully in the past.

 

So, shift the panel over (probably about another 8" or move nearer the top), remove excess mains cable from inside and either sheath the earth or replace with 1.5mm flex.

 

Thanks for the help so far.

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I moved the panel over this morning, removed excess cable too as well as rerouting the ethernet cable (no earth sheath yet, have to go and get some), just this second it has gone into alarm though. Panel consumption regular is 0.307a at 13.7v, expander consumption is 21.5v, no idea why they are different when its the same circuit board though. I have asked the supplier if they have another on the shelf that I can try - my place of work regularly deals with them so it should not be a problem. As I am writing this it has gone into alarm again, have to turn it off until I can try a few more things I think! Thanks.

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21.5v ??

Are you sure that's correct ?

Sounds like a faulty pcb if its the inboard expander failing tho.

Have you tried just having the panel , rkp and expanders online without any zones ?

Could possibly be a faulty device pulling for the voltage and causing it to drop off

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