Anyone here know a thing or two about these bell boxes?

 

Just connected to a Dimension panel, outputs 1001 and 1002 for bells and strobe, bells working fine but the strobe isn’t activating when testing outputs.

 

First time I’ve installed one of these (only the old Odyssey series and never had a problem) and I was surprised when the siren didn’t sound briefly before going into the “special engineer mode” when first connecting to the panel.

 

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

 

 

Assuming it is -ve for strobe, what happens if you connect the wire for the strobe to a permanent -ve?

I was just about to say that I’m about to test the strobe output with a multimeter but that’s even better! I’ll report back shortly-thanks

Ok strobe works when connected to ground. Hmmmm. Why is my strobe output not strobing? ?  It’s configured as a strobe output

Edited April 27, 20224 yr by Driller

Perhaps it has something to do with these output contacts? I’ve installed several G2 systems which didn’t have this “relay” type affair on these outputs. There’s a common, a NO and an NC. I have connected to the NC contact (just to the right of bells 1001).

 

I’m going to post a very small section of the output diagram, I hope I’m not breaking any rules.

And continuing the conversation, I wonder if I shouldn’t connect the C terminal of that relay to ground? Otherwise the strobe light isn’t going to have anything to sink to

Edited April 27, 20224 yr by Driller

That will be it yes.

26 minutes ago, sixwheeledbeast said:

That will be it yes.

Thanks for the confirmation ?

28 minutes ago, sixwheeledbeast said:

That will be it yes.

Eh?

2 minutes ago, Driller said:

Thanks for the confirmation ?

Why don't you just use proper output instead of relay?

 

Is an output available and programmable for strobe? 

It could be said that you should programme the strobe output as bell, so if the alarm activates and stops 15 minutes later, no one will know the alarm has activated and not been reset. (As the strobe is no longer flashing)