So I found a guy on ebay who sold a unit he had wired up for a demo. It included a lot of stuff for the $375 to include a touch keypad, normal keypad, ethernet controller, battery, speaker, keypad expander, cellular module, and zwave module. Usually, I would think this was a hell of a deal however when the package arrived I noticed a note from the post office stating it was damaged as well as a black hole in the side of it. I opened the box to find that the shipper had apparently just pulled the wire from the bottom of the m1, wrapped the battery with it, and stuffed it in the box. Shortly after the exposed wires shorted and the battery caught fire. Luckilly the only thing damaged was the battery, wire, and a package of two doorbell switches and magnet sensors. All in all I was only out probably $20 is parts and the battery was from 2012 so it really needed replacing anyway. I contacted the seller to tell him how boneheaded it was and if he had burnt down his house or worse the post office it could have been bad.
I almost immediately noticed the kit did not come with a AC adapter which again is no big deal since I would rather spend $10 for that than over $200 for the accessories. I ordered a new one and it came in this week. Today I go to wire the unit up and find that I can not find out where the battery plugs in. There was simply the picture on the board but nothing else. After doing further research I see the picture online of the M1 with battery leads running out of the bottom of the board from under the back shield.
Here is my question, how hard is it to install new leads? Is it possible to pull the cover off and just hookup the 12v leads from my old alarm system? Or am I stuck running a UPS to keep my alarm running after an outage?
Thanks. And BTW since I have gotten ZERO response from the seller not a "Sorry" "I didnt know" "one of my retards packaged it" or "F*** you" I left this dude negative feedback. Heck he could have burn my house down. That is not cool.
I almost immediately noticed the kit did not come with a AC adapter which again is no big deal since I would rather spend $10 for that than over $200 for the accessories. I ordered a new one and it came in this week. Today I go to wire the unit up and find that I can not find out where the battery plugs in. There was simply the picture on the board but nothing else. After doing further research I see the picture online of the M1 with battery leads running out of the bottom of the board from under the back shield.
Here is my question, how hard is it to install new leads? Is it possible to pull the cover off and just hookup the 12v leads from my old alarm system? Or am I stuck running a UPS to keep my alarm running after an outage?
Thanks. And BTW since I have gotten ZERO response from the seller not a "Sorry" "I didnt know" "one of my retards packaged it" or "F*** you" I left this dude negative feedback. Heck he could have burn my house down. That is not cool.