Hi All
Been lurking for a while, great site lots of help. Anyway, I am in the process of setting up my HT/HA set-up via CQC (new to all this so still learning) and have laid out a phased approach to this with adding a security panel down line (9-12 months) once I get HT working. Well, there has been a recent rash of Theft/break-ins/vandalism in our neighbor hood with the latest two nights ago 2 houses down and so my wife gave me orders to get the security up first. Knowing this was coming down the road I haven't given it much attention or thought on how to proceed other than some initial research on the Elk M1G and CQC.
So my first place to start is the wiring for door/window sensors, it just so happens the house (20 years old) has been prewired for a security panel with most of the doors/windows sensors installed. They are currently home run to a hallway coat closet left open hanging down the wall. It looks like 30 or so single wires (Wrapped into pairs), a couple of network cables, I would assume cat 5? and a standard phone cable.
Questions
1. How do I tell if these are usable for the Elk and what they actually go to?
2. This point is not the central point for my HT/HA closet, can I install the M1G in the my central closet with an input expander going to the security termination closet?
3. EOL resistors, do I need them and if so how can I add them to the existing wiring, or determine if they are there? ( can I pull out the existing contact in the door frame and add ?)
4. Any ideas to where the cat 5 type cables are going?
5. Any thing else you can think of to get me started down this road?
Thanks in advance
Kevin
Been lurking for a while, great site lots of help. Anyway, I am in the process of setting up my HT/HA set-up via CQC (new to all this so still learning) and have laid out a phased approach to this with adding a security panel down line (9-12 months) once I get HT working. Well, there has been a recent rash of Theft/break-ins/vandalism in our neighbor hood with the latest two nights ago 2 houses down and so my wife gave me orders to get the security up first. Knowing this was coming down the road I haven't given it much attention or thought on how to proceed other than some initial research on the Elk M1G and CQC.
So my first place to start is the wiring for door/window sensors, it just so happens the house (20 years old) has been prewired for a security panel with most of the doors/windows sensors installed. They are currently home run to a hallway coat closet left open hanging down the wall. It looks like 30 or so single wires (Wrapped into pairs), a couple of network cables, I would assume cat 5? and a standard phone cable.
Questions
1. How do I tell if these are usable for the Elk and what they actually go to?
2. This point is not the central point for my HT/HA closet, can I install the M1G in the my central closet with an input expander going to the security termination closet?
3. EOL resistors, do I need them and if so how can I add them to the existing wiring, or determine if they are there? ( can I pull out the existing contact in the door frame and add ?)
4. Any ideas to where the cat 5 type cables are going?
5. Any thing else you can think of to get me started down this road?
Thanks in advance
Kevin