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Roller shutter contact, do I use tamper wires ?


Keef

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I want to add this contact to my garage door but I am not 100% sure about the wiring

It has,

2 white wires - reed switch

2 red wires - tamper

I know how to wire the white wires via EOL, but do I need to use the tamper wires as well, or is it not necessary ?

I was thinking

1k across the white wires

Zone common in to white wire

other white wire to red

other red to zone return with 1k

 

Thanks for reading, hope it makes sense 

 

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39 minutes ago, Keef said:

I want to add this contact to my garage door but I am not 100% sure about the wiring

It has,

2 white wires - reed switch

2 red wires - tamper

I know how to wire the white wires via EOL, but do I need to use the tamper wires as well, or is it not necessary ?

I was thinking

1k across the white wires

Zone common in to white wire

other white wire to red

other red to zone return with 1k

 

Thanks for reading, hope it makes sense 

 

s-l1600.jpg

So you need the tamper proof box and the grommet should fit on it aswell and do as Mr H says or he send the boys round 

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Thank you MrHappy, thats how I thought

 

Just so I have this right in my head.

If I only used the white wires and someone cut the metal cable, it would cause a open circuit.

Using the red as well, it will cause a tamper ?

 

Keef

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Thanks for all the help, but I don’t think even you lot could solve this !!! 

I had this great idea to bury the cable going to the garage while I was doing the footing for a patio. Buried it under 6 inches of hardcore and concrete, then paved the whole thing.

Just gone to connect the wires and found out I have used phone cable by mistake, knew I should have use conduit ?

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6 hours ago, Keef said:

Thanks for all the help, but I don’t think even you lot could solve this !!! 

I had this great idea to bury the cable going to the garage while I was doing the footing for a patio. Buried it under 6 inches of hardcore and concrete, then paved the whole thing.

Just gone to connect the wires and found out I have used phone cable by mistake, knew I should have use conduit ?

It will still work ...

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8 minutes ago, aissecur said:

If it’s just ordinary bt cable with no protection, it will work (for a while) 

I redid it properly, with the correct cable and in conduit this time. 
The funny thing is that I didn’t even know I had any phone cable.

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