IVB
Senior Member
Between smoke/heat/CO/window/door, I'm already at 37 sensors for my 1650 sqft/9room house. Before I run any wiring, i was wondering how to approach the wiring against the zones, so I don't end up with spaghetti wiring.
It looks like the biggest room has 5 sensors in it. Is there any value in me declaring that i'll allocate 5 Elk zones per room, i can do 3 rooms per M1XIN, so for 9 rooms i need 3 M1XIN's. Furthermore, i'll declare specific zones per room, for example:
Zones16->20: Family Room
Zones21->26: Breakfast Nook
Zones27->32: Kitchen
etc.
Question 1) I know there's zones that absolutely won't need 5 sensors, but i wonder if it would be better to take a step back and do this first. Did you do this?
Question 2) Is there a better way to approaching structuring the wiring other than going by zone?
Question 3) How do i handle overruns (ie i just realized i need another sensors here) - do I do 2 rooms per M1XIN now and allocate 8 sensors per room?
I might be overthinking this, but i've been bitten in the past due to a lack of pre-planning, this time it requires a crapload of physical wiring which is awful to redo, so I'd like to do some planning.
Thanks for your help.
It looks like the biggest room has 5 sensors in it. Is there any value in me declaring that i'll allocate 5 Elk zones per room, i can do 3 rooms per M1XIN, so for 9 rooms i need 3 M1XIN's. Furthermore, i'll declare specific zones per room, for example:
Zones16->20: Family Room
Zones21->26: Breakfast Nook
Zones27->32: Kitchen
etc.
Question 1) I know there's zones that absolutely won't need 5 sensors, but i wonder if it would be better to take a step back and do this first. Did you do this?
Question 2) Is there a better way to approaching structuring the wiring other than going by zone?
Question 3) How do i handle overruns (ie i just realized i need another sensors here) - do I do 2 rooms per M1XIN now and allocate 8 sensors per room?
I might be overthinking this, but i've been bitten in the past due to a lack of pre-planning, this time it requires a crapload of physical wiring which is awful to redo, so I'd like to do some planning.
Thanks for your help.