Wireless sensors are tripped when turning system on... goes into alarm

signal15

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I was doing some new wiring today, and I shut my Elk down for the first time since I added a bunch of wireless sensors.  When I turned it back on, all of my wireless smokes and glass breaks immediately tripped the alarm.  I typed in the code, and now all is fine.
 
So I shut it off and back on, and it did it again.
 
Is there a way to make these not set off the alarm right away?  Glass breaks are set to 24hr burglar, they are NOT perimeter.
 
Edit:  I changed the glass breaks to "Burglar Perimeter Instant", and that seems to have resolved the issue.  The smokes are actually coming up as violated, but they are not setting off the alarm, there must be some sort of delay on boot for wireless smokes.
 
I would like to have the glass breaks as 24hr though.  Is there a way to do this without having it set off the alarm on startup?
 
I remember reading about this before, but thought it was fixed via an update. If not, there was a way to add a delay to any input expander during system startup - try a forum search.
 
Check your EOL settings on the ZT....RF smokes should not show as violated. Sounds like your programming needs a look over.
 
Startup alarms might happen on 24H ZT's....I generally don't have much as 24H uncontrolled on many systems, but I've never had an issue with gas, FA or other similar detectors faulting during the initial powerup.
 
It's not the smokes that's doing it, it was only the glass breaks.  I switched them to burglar zones, NOT 24hr, and it fixed the problem.  However, I'd still like to have them 24hr.  If someone breaks glass, I want the alarm to go off.
 
I can see where you think the added coverage of glass being on a 24 hour zone would be a good thing in theory. In reality I bet you change them back to perimeter after a period of time. There are way to many sources of false alarm sounds in an active house.
 
if you search for this thread it may help you  from  February 2009
 

"Elk M1G start up sequence"    Spanky explains how to get around it
 
+ 1 billion.
gizzmo said:
I can see where you think the added coverage of glass being on a 24 hour zone would be a good thing in theory. In reality I bet you change them back to perimeter after a period of time. There are way to many sources of false alarm sounds in an active house.
 
DELInstallations said:
+ 1 billion.
I will probably leave them at perimeter.  At my last house, I had sentrol hard-wired sensors, which were less sensitive then these GE wireless ones, but they still went off when the kids dropped a bag of legos or slarmmed a door. The new ones go off when a toilet seat slams or even when my daughter screams and cries.
 
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