So I'm upgrading to an M1 from a child's play thing aka Vista 10P. As I pry the wires off the old board that I can identify and tag them, I find myself left with a confusing wire and I need suggestions.
The wire appears as a four conductor at the panel, with red and black to aux power, yellow to zone 6 lo and green to EOLR then zone 6 hi. I have already identified the keypad wires and they appropriately use aux power and the keypad data lines on terminals 6 and 7. All other wires that enter the panel have their yellow and green wires cut down to hide in the outer insulation. There are no other wires chain spliced onto yellow or green, unlike the remaining five zones that need to support 27 sensors and have several chained splices per zone.
Here's the kicker. The smokes throughout the house are all Firex FADC 120v AC with battery backup. They take AC neutral, AC common, and they're wired with 14/3 with red used as the intercommunication to make the whole house scream. Three conductors. I've opened every one and I see no 20 gauge four wire anywhere. All of the detectors are Firex FADC, all installed at the same time. The house is 2006 construction. There is no smoke detector relay in the panel box, buried in the wall behind it, or in either breaker panel. I put a toner on the wire and could not pick up tone in the smoke detector j-boxes.
I've lived here about two years and pretty much discovered every inch of the place including the attic. I'm stumped on what could be connected to this wire and I'm not at the point of drywall destroying curiosity. I'm certain that until I know what it is, it isn't touching the new panel.
Getting access to the installer is not an option, it was subbed out to subs that no longer exist after the housing crash and the prime contractor on the subdivision is bankrupt and dissolved. I'm on my own.
For now, it's no biggie, I'll just keep it disconnected as I progress through the project. I may stumble into what it is by process of tracing sensors to wires as I tear apart the splices used to fit the whole house into 5 zones.
That's my story, have at it. I could post pictures, but I'd need to dress the wires a little for it to make sense, it looks like Rapunzel at the moment.
The wire appears as a four conductor at the panel, with red and black to aux power, yellow to zone 6 lo and green to EOLR then zone 6 hi. I have already identified the keypad wires and they appropriately use aux power and the keypad data lines on terminals 6 and 7. All other wires that enter the panel have their yellow and green wires cut down to hide in the outer insulation. There are no other wires chain spliced onto yellow or green, unlike the remaining five zones that need to support 27 sensors and have several chained splices per zone.
Here's the kicker. The smokes throughout the house are all Firex FADC 120v AC with battery backup. They take AC neutral, AC common, and they're wired with 14/3 with red used as the intercommunication to make the whole house scream. Three conductors. I've opened every one and I see no 20 gauge four wire anywhere. All of the detectors are Firex FADC, all installed at the same time. The house is 2006 construction. There is no smoke detector relay in the panel box, buried in the wall behind it, or in either breaker panel. I put a toner on the wire and could not pick up tone in the smoke detector j-boxes.
I've lived here about two years and pretty much discovered every inch of the place including the attic. I'm stumped on what could be connected to this wire and I'm not at the point of drywall destroying curiosity. I'm certain that until I know what it is, it isn't touching the new panel.
Getting access to the installer is not an option, it was subbed out to subs that no longer exist after the housing crash and the prime contractor on the subdivision is bankrupt and dissolved. I'm on my own.
For now, it's no biggie, I'll just keep it disconnected as I progress through the project. I may stumble into what it is by process of tracing sensors to wires as I tear apart the splices used to fit the whole house into 5 zones.
That's my story, have at it. I could post pictures, but I'd need to dress the wires a little for it to make sense, it looks like Rapunzel at the moment.