IVB
Senior Member
I have a current ADT system, and I need to minimize "downtime" of security, to keep wife happy. [we live in Oakland, 'nuff said].
I found what I'm pretty sure is an RJ31X jack in the ADT panel. Looking through these diagrams, I see that the wiring seems pretty dang simple: 2 wires from Telco->RJ31->2 wires to house phones.
All my reading says that all that an RJ31 does is allow a panel to seize control of the lines even if someone is on them, basically a phone equivalent of an N/C - N/O relay. If there's no issues, it allows signal to pass through to the phones. If there is, it takes over and does its thing.
Given that, is there any reason that I couldn't migrate to an Elk in 2 steps:
Step 1) Wire up a 2nd RJ31X inside the Elk panel, run output from ADT's RJ31->ElkRJ31. Then go to the house phones.
Step 2) Once that's done, wiring confirmed, wife happy, ready to push the Big Red Switch, I can pull the 1st RJ31X out of the loop, twisting wires directly together.
I'd bet it takes 1-2 weeks between step 1 & 2, just to make sure everything's cool.
I found what I'm pretty sure is an RJ31X jack in the ADT panel. Looking through these diagrams, I see that the wiring seems pretty dang simple: 2 wires from Telco->RJ31->2 wires to house phones.
All my reading says that all that an RJ31 does is allow a panel to seize control of the lines even if someone is on them, basically a phone equivalent of an N/C - N/O relay. If there's no issues, it allows signal to pass through to the phones. If there is, it takes over and does its thing.
Given that, is there any reason that I couldn't migrate to an Elk in 2 steps:
Step 1) Wire up a 2nd RJ31X inside the Elk panel, run output from ADT's RJ31->ElkRJ31. Then go to the house phones.
Step 2) Once that's done, wiring confirmed, wife happy, ready to push the Big Red Switch, I can pull the 1st RJ31X out of the loop, twisting wires directly together.
I'd bet it takes 1-2 weeks between step 1 & 2, just to make sure everything's cool.