Purchasing Elk-M1G

[Ripper99]

My wife constantly questioned me until I told her that I spent less on all this stuff than she did on the living room furniture I'm not allowed to sit on.

Well at least you got your toys to play with

I'm curious..is she allowed to sit on the furniture?

 

[Digger]

The couch is for the french poodle I bet...............

 

[surdev]

Iam confused on how to connect my Motion Sensor, Glass break, smoke/heat sensor etc. Looks like the main panel got 1 +SAUX & 3 +VAUX.

I need to connect around 6 motion, 3 smoke/heat, 1 heat, 4 glass break sensors.

Thanks,
Suresh.

 

[AutomatedOutlet]

Devices like motions and GB sensors all use 4 wires. 2 wires go to the input zone connections and 2 wires get connected on the power bar on the lower left side of the panel.

 

[surdev]

Devices like motions and GB sensors all use 4 wires. 2 wires go to the input zone connections and 2 wires get connected on the power bar on the lower left side of the panel.

Can you connect multiple wires to the power bar, Meaning connecting 2-3 motion sensor wires to the same power bar location.

Thanks,
Suresh.

 

[acheslow]

Devices like motions and GB sensors all use 4 wires. 2 wires go to the input zone connections and 2 wires get connected on the power bar on the lower left side of the panel.

What's the cleanest way to do this, by the way? Right now I've got all 4 wires in a single cable and made a short little "jumper" with butt splice connectors to extend the two power wires down to the power bar.

This looks a little messy to me but I guess the only other alternative is to strip the cable jacket down far enough so that the 2 zone wires can go up to the zone connector and the 2 power wires can go down to the power bar, but it seems like that would get messy too.

How are other people wiring this?

Thanks,

 

[AutomatedOutlet]

Can you connect multiple wires to the power bar, Meaning connecting 2-3 motion sensor wires to the same power bar location.

Sure, nothing wrong with that at all. It's just DC power.

 

[v1rtu0s1ty]

Devices like motions and GB sensors all use 4 wires. 2 wires go to the input zone connections and 2 wires get connected on the power bar on the lower left side of the panel.

What's the cleanest way to do this, by the way? Right now I've got all 4 wires in a single cable and made a short little "jumper" with butt splice connectors to extend the two power wires down to the power bar.

This looks a little messy to me but I guess the only other alternative is to strip the cable jacket down far enough so that the 2 zone wires can go up to the zone connector and the 2 power wires can go down to the power bar, but it seems like that would get messy too.

How are other people wiring this?

Thanks,

terminal block I guess so it's clean?!

 

[Digger]

If I am reading this correctly you are concerned about the 2 pairs going to two different locations on the M1 and how to neatly dress the wires.

Sometimes when I had the time to really make a nicely dressed panel I would slit the jacket and pull out one pair for the zone as an example. Then the remaining pair stayed in the jacket until it got to the power terminals.

You have to be careful slitting the jacket.

 

[surdev]

Bit the bullet and purchased the ELK-M1G this weekend. Its going to be fun bench testing it. Woooohooooooo....

 

[IVB]

Congratulations.

Now on to planning your next order...

 

[surdev]

Congratulations.

Now on to planning your next order...

I just purchased 2 MOXA 8-port card from ebay... can wait to connect Elk-M1 to CQC and play with it...

 

[Mike]

I hadn't heard about those. Out of curiousity, what led you to the MOXA instead of the RocketPort?

 

[surdev]

I hadn't heard about those. Out of curiousity, what led you to the MOXA instead of the RocketPort?

Some of the members from CQC forum purchased them and were very happy with them. I got to see how good they are..

 

[Mike]

Hmm, since that is how I was planning on using it, I think I need to look closer...

EDIT: Have you heard anything about the server?