Secondary (slave control panel)

[Wyman]

Hi,
I am currently considering HAI or ELK for a new 4300 sq ft. house and I am reading as much as possible on the forum but was curious about this. Our garage and a small apartment will be located about 20ft from the main structure and I am planning to have sensors for the garage door, ingress doors, networks cabling, cameras etc. Should I just run a conduit from the main building and run all the cabling I will be needing or is there a slave unit that HAI or ELK might have to run minimal amount of wiring to it?

Thanks

Wyman

 

[kdub]

Elk uses an RS-485 bus to connect all of its "peripherals" (keypads, zone extenders, etc) which seems to have an absolute maximum length of 4000ft. So the main Elk panel can reside inside the house, and a single cable (cat5 may work) could be run to the garage where a zone input expansion module can be located as well as a keypad. All of your sensors would then connect to the zone input expansion module to add the garage zones to your system. Elk then allows you to define up to 8 different areas, so I believe the garage zones can be configured into a separate area from the house to be armed/disarmed separately.

 

[DavidL]

Put in a conduit and push a whole bunch of cables through it as it's too hard to do it later when the pipe is buried.

Just don't put high voltage in the same conduit as low voltage. And seperate the high from low conduits from each other in the ditch.

20 feet is nothing to worry about. My barn is like 250 or so wire length from the elk main panel...no problem. Expansion boards etc. in the barn for additional zone support.

 

[fabriziojoe]

Hi,
I am currently considering HAI or ELK for a new 4300 sq ft. house and I am reading as much as possible on the forum but was curious about this. Our garage and a small apartment will be located about 20ft from the main structure and I am planning to have sensors for the garage door, ingress doors, networks cabling, cameras etc. Should I just run a conduit from the main building and run all the cabling I will be needing or is there a slave unit that HAI or ELK might have to run minimal amount of wiring to it?

Thanks

Wyman

If you go the HAI route you can add an expander board in the detached building. You would just need to run an 18/4 plus a ground from the omni main panel to the expander board. In addition, you will still need and outlet at the expander location. This will give you 16 zones.
I would run 2, 4" conduits, one for HV and one for LV-you never know!

 

[Wyman]

Hi,
I am currently considering HAI or ELK for a new 4300 sq ft. house and I am reading as much as possible on the forum but was curious about this. Our garage and a small apartment will be located about 20ft from the main structure and I am planning to have sensors for the garage door, ingress doors, networks cabling, cameras etc. Should I just run a conduit from the main building and run all the cabling I will be needing or is there a slave unit that HAI or ELK might have to run minimal amount of wiring to it?

Thanks

Wyman

If you go the HAI route you can add an expander board in the detached building. You would just need to run an 18/4 plus a ground from the omni main panel to the expander board. In addition, you will still need and outlet at the expander location. This will give you 16 zones.
I would run 2, 4" conduits, one for HV and one for LV-you never know!

Thanks everybody. I will make sure I run 2 conduits. I did not think about HV.