HoustonFirefox
Active Member
Hi All,
New to the board and love the discussions! They have helped me quite a bit with my new M1G installation. So far I've hooked up the control panel (in it's final location) as well as the keypad. I've terminated the zones at the control with the 2200 ohm resistors until I can run the zone wiring (this weekend).
I've also purchased (and not yet hooked up): Elk siren, two strobes, Z-wave interface (X-10 stuff died awhile back) as well as the ethernet option to hard-wire into my LAN.
I have a few questions.
1) Not knowing any better, I purchased Cat 3e cabling for the zones (4 conductor, not sure of the wire gauge). Will this be sufficient for wiring the zones? (about 8 total).
2) Can I use this same wiring for the two strobes and one siren?
3) I'm very interested in a thermostat for this setup. Since it is a single zone, what is a low-cost solution for this? (simple A/C electric heat/cool. I have a programmable thermostat on it now but would like to be able to set the temp from the M1
4) What is the best way to interface the M1 to my hard-wired garage door button to open/close the garage door? I will have the door zoned for open/closed sensing.
Thanks in advance for any help!
HoustonFirefox
New to the board and love the discussions! They have helped me quite a bit with my new M1G installation. So far I've hooked up the control panel (in it's final location) as well as the keypad. I've terminated the zones at the control with the 2200 ohm resistors until I can run the zone wiring (this weekend).
I've also purchased (and not yet hooked up): Elk siren, two strobes, Z-wave interface (X-10 stuff died awhile back) as well as the ethernet option to hard-wire into my LAN.
I have a few questions.
1) Not knowing any better, I purchased Cat 3e cabling for the zones (4 conductor, not sure of the wire gauge). Will this be sufficient for wiring the zones? (about 8 total).
2) Can I use this same wiring for the two strobes and one siren?
3) I'm very interested in a thermostat for this setup. Since it is a single zone, what is a low-cost solution for this? (simple A/C electric heat/cool. I have a programmable thermostat on it now but would like to be able to set the temp from the M1
4) What is the best way to interface the M1 to my hard-wired garage door button to open/close the garage door? I will have the door zoned for open/closed sensing.
Thanks in advance for any help!
HoustonFirefox