Guys/ladies, I just had a wiring question that i hope can be easily answered. Looking at the directions for the keypad I see that the data bus cable has a black/white/green/& red wires. The data bus cable splice/connect into the keypad wiring of the same color. What should be done with the blue and brown wire. I see that the resistor should be connected to the blue wire and then back to the black wire. I'm at a loss for the brown wire though. Is it necessary for the blue wire to be hooked up? Does the brown wire go back to the black wire? I'm a little confused. Can i please get some guidance? Thank you.
Elk-M1KPNAV Touchscreen Keypad
- Thread starter Mridixon
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Mridixon said:
The KPNAV and other Elk keypads all have a single input and output pair that can be used just like any other input or output on the M1. These show up with a zone number of 192 + the keypad address. So the input/output on keypad 1 would be input 193 and output 193, and so on.
You can use them for things that might be near a door where a keypad is located. For example, the door contact could be connected to the keypad input, rather than running a separate cable all the way back to the M1. The output can be used to control something like an electric door strike plate. Some folks use the output to drive a status LED on the outside of the door frame so that they can see that the alarm is armed from outside the house.
