Hello All,
New to CocoonTech, and I'm hoping this forum can help me out in any way. We moved into our house back in 2012, and our house has the HAI OmniPro II home automation system. I had no idea on how to program the system, and the previous owner gave me some information, but it didn't help much. So, for the past 3 years, I've been living with whatever setup the previous owner had.
Last week, the interior horn went off (first time hearing the horn), and then stopped after few minutes. After that, I noticed all the LCD controller was powered off. I went down to the basement to check out the board, and noticed the the red status LED was blinking rapidly (about 3-4/sec). I tried rebooting, but the status LED starts blinking about 1/sec, and then starts blinking rapidly after about 6 secs. I checked the two batteries, and they were measuring about 7-8 volts. I didn't think bad batteries could have shut the system down, but since they were relatively inexpensive, I replaced them. But the system still didn't power up.
I noticed there are two transformers, so I tested the outputs of both, and found one of them to be bad. I ordered another 24VAC 40VA transformer, and when it arrived, I eagerly connected the new transformer. I flipped the power switch to turn both transformers on, and then the 20A00-21 board started smoking!!!!! I quickly turned off the power.........and here I am now stuck with a bigger problem.
So I probably need a new board, which would be over $1000, but what is the most likely cause of the events I described? Did something fail on the board that caused the transformer to fail? Did the transformer fail first? What caused the horn to go off?
Few other questions:
1. If I replace the board, how do I reprogram the new board, since I was never successful when I first moved in 3 years ago?
2. Are the 20A04-2 and the 20A05-2 the chips that store the current program? If so, can I take them out and put it in the new board to get back to where I was?
3. Is this a DIY?
4. If not DIY, who can I call in the Chicagoland area? Ideally, the original installer would be the best, but I have no idea who that could be.
Any thoughts or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
New to CocoonTech, and I'm hoping this forum can help me out in any way. We moved into our house back in 2012, and our house has the HAI OmniPro II home automation system. I had no idea on how to program the system, and the previous owner gave me some information, but it didn't help much. So, for the past 3 years, I've been living with whatever setup the previous owner had.
Last week, the interior horn went off (first time hearing the horn), and then stopped after few minutes. After that, I noticed all the LCD controller was powered off. I went down to the basement to check out the board, and noticed the the red status LED was blinking rapidly (about 3-4/sec). I tried rebooting, but the status LED starts blinking about 1/sec, and then starts blinking rapidly after about 6 secs. I checked the two batteries, and they were measuring about 7-8 volts. I didn't think bad batteries could have shut the system down, but since they were relatively inexpensive, I replaced them. But the system still didn't power up.
I noticed there are two transformers, so I tested the outputs of both, and found one of them to be bad. I ordered another 24VAC 40VA transformer, and when it arrived, I eagerly connected the new transformer. I flipped the power switch to turn both transformers on, and then the 20A00-21 board started smoking!!!!! I quickly turned off the power.........and here I am now stuck with a bigger problem.
So I probably need a new board, which would be over $1000, but what is the most likely cause of the events I described? Did something fail on the board that caused the transformer to fail? Did the transformer fail first? What caused the horn to go off?
Few other questions:
1. If I replace the board, how do I reprogram the new board, since I was never successful when I first moved in 3 years ago?
2. Are the 20A04-2 and the 20A05-2 the chips that store the current program? If so, can I take them out and put it in the new board to get back to where I was?
3. Is this a DIY?
4. If not DIY, who can I call in the Chicagoland area? Ideally, the original installer would be the best, but I have no idea who that could be.
Any thoughts or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.