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

Take factory fited wire out of msw2 and join to a spare core in the cable to that bell leaving nothing connected to msw2, join that core to a spare core in the other bell cable at your panel then wire that in to msw1 along with the factory fitted wire on the other bell

Hello Breff

 

Take factory fited wire out of msw2 and join to a spare core in the cable to that bell leaving nothing connected to msw2, join that core to a spare core in the other bell cable at your panel then wire that in to msw1 along with the factory fitted wire on the other bell

 

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!

If white is the colour of the spare cores you are using, yes.

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

No, just advisable to have every device on its own cable, if one cable goes down it only takes out one device.

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?

 

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