Recent content by shoprat59

Mike and Del, thanks for the informative posts.  I don't understand why ELK would limit the Water Alarm Definition to using NC/NO/NO EOL but not NC EOL; maybe because that is the form of their water sensors? Regardless your posts and my testing confirm that is the case. To me this is an...

 Someone gave me a great answer on my original post.  IAW a 5 year old post by an Elk rep,  this is how they designed the Water Alarm Definition - you cannot use EOL resistors on an NC sensor. Seems like a strange limitation to me, but I will switch to an Aux alarm so I can use an EOL resistor...

This is a summary of my original post in the home security section.  I am reposting it here as this area is supposedly monitored by Elk support and they won't provide phone support to home owners.   When using Definition 25 Water Alarm 24 hr with either a NC or a NO sensor my M1 Gold works...

DELInstallations,                      I got the voltages via RP last night as follows: 1) Closed (ready state): 7.1 - Elk spec is 4.0 - 8.8 2) Open (alarm state): 13.5 - Elk spec is 8.9 - 13.8   My results are well within spec.   Again when I activated the float the alarm registered but the...

Yes, I understand how EOL resistors work, but apparently you don't as you have it backwards - NC uses a series resistor while NO uses a parallel resistor.   As I think I made clear in my original post there is no issue with the Chinese sensors and I am NOT asking for help with them.  My issue...

I'm not sure what you mean by loop voltage? Each one of these sensors is on its own zone. I assume you mean the voltage on the sump pump float valve zone I can't test it until tomorrow, but I'm sure it is 7 VDC when the float is in normal position and 13.8 VDC when the float is triggered. I'll...

I have not tired this on my elk, but on page 21 of the User Guide it says this concerning operating from and Outside Telephone: "1. Dial-in to the phone number attached to the control. After a programmed number of rings the control should answer with four short beeps.  If an answering machine...

Some background:   I have multiple high-water/water leak sensors, most are the two-prong type, but I also have NC float sensors on the my sump and sewage pumps and window well. 1) The 2-prong NO (Chinese made purchased on eBay, can't figure out how to post a link) will not work with EOL...