Hello all - I am writing in desperation for some assistance on hooking up & configuring my Elk M1. As a little background, my wife and I recently moved into our new construction. We've planned this house for 2 years... and it turned into a nightmare. Long story short, I ran all of the wires for security myself, wired up all of the sensors at each window, door etc... all of that has been tested and is good but since the house build turned into a nightmare (as I know many do), I've since lost my memory as to how to get this thing working and operational. The reason I am in panic mode is b/c there was a devastating house fire near us in which 3 little girls were killed as well as the grandparents... so it's freaking me out to say the least and I want to keep my family safe.
My system is roughly as follows:
ELK M1 GOLD
Data Bus - ELK-M1DBH
2 Zone expanders - ELK-M1XIN
Ethernet Port Interface - ELK-M1ZEP
3 Keypads (2 larger, 1 smaller w/ no screen), Cat6 cable ran to panel from each pad location - ELK-M1KP2 (2) & ELK-M1KPS
4 Wire Smokes throughout, each floor is wired in series w/ EOL relay & EOL resistor on end of chain - home run per floor (Ademco System Sensor 4W-B Smoke Detector 4-Wire)
CO detectors on each floor - home run
1 zone per window, upper/lower sash sensors in series w/ EOL resistor - home run per window/door
Wires ran from glass break & motion - home run for each sensor
My main concern now is getting the thing up and running for fire protection. Does the keypad need to be operational to do this? I didn't think it did but maybe I am wrong because I was testing the smoke system last night, once I trigger one of the detectors (using smoke from burning newspaper), the little light on it turns red.. down at the panel I am getting nearly a 13.8V reading from that smoke zone which should trigger the siren... but it does not. I have the siren on 'Out 2'... which is still only showing around 3.4V w/ no sound coming out. The interesting thing is that even once I power down the M1, power it back up... the smoke light goes back from red to blinking green, but the panel still reads 13.8V. Is this an issue or is this because I need to clear the past triggered event? Why am I not getting a siren? How do I setup the keypads... as I have the data bus which uses RJ45... and I've put RJ45 connectors on the Cat6 runs at the panel... but I am assuming I need to enroll that Data bus itself before it can communicate with the M1? Right now the one key pad that I have hooked up shows a message about Loss Comm.
Any help would be greatly appreciated... this board has been great throughout my install process... unfortunately it's been so long that I lost alot of my thoughts and learning.
Thanks very much all & Happy Holidays!
Best,
Nick
My system is roughly as follows:
ELK M1 GOLD
Data Bus - ELK-M1DBH
2 Zone expanders - ELK-M1XIN
Ethernet Port Interface - ELK-M1ZEP
3 Keypads (2 larger, 1 smaller w/ no screen), Cat6 cable ran to panel from each pad location - ELK-M1KP2 (2) & ELK-M1KPS
4 Wire Smokes throughout, each floor is wired in series w/ EOL relay & EOL resistor on end of chain - home run per floor (Ademco System Sensor 4W-B Smoke Detector 4-Wire)
CO detectors on each floor - home run
1 zone per window, upper/lower sash sensors in series w/ EOL resistor - home run per window/door
Wires ran from glass break & motion - home run for each sensor
My main concern now is getting the thing up and running for fire protection. Does the keypad need to be operational to do this? I didn't think it did but maybe I am wrong because I was testing the smoke system last night, once I trigger one of the detectors (using smoke from burning newspaper), the little light on it turns red.. down at the panel I am getting nearly a 13.8V reading from that smoke zone which should trigger the siren... but it does not. I have the siren on 'Out 2'... which is still only showing around 3.4V w/ no sound coming out. The interesting thing is that even once I power down the M1, power it back up... the smoke light goes back from red to blinking green, but the panel still reads 13.8V. Is this an issue or is this because I need to clear the past triggered event? Why am I not getting a siren? How do I setup the keypads... as I have the data bus which uses RJ45... and I've put RJ45 connectors on the Cat6 runs at the panel... but I am assuming I need to enroll that Data bus itself before it can communicate with the M1? Right now the one key pad that I have hooked up shows a message about Loss Comm.
Any help would be greatly appreciated... this board has been great throughout my install process... unfortunately it's been so long that I lost alot of my thoughts and learning.
Thanks very much all & Happy Holidays!
Best,
Nick
