Hello,
I have sort of an interesting dilemma, and I was hoping to get some help here.
About 20 years ago, my mother had an alarm system installed in her home. The company that installed it did a nice job, and all of the downstairs windows and doors were wired as well as a motion sensor placed on the first floor. After a while, though, she stopped using the system except on rare occasions. Although equipped with the ability to call the company that installed the system, she didn't use that functionality, and she stopped paying for monitoring years back.
A few months ago, my mom was having trouble with the system, and for some reason or another she severed all of the connections in the access panel. Recently, she passed away, and I am looking to sell the house. I assume that having a working alarm system would be better than not having one.
I'm fairly adept with electronics, but I don't really know where to begin with restoring the connections other than trying to match colors and gauges with wires. Ideally, I would like to have some manuals for the various components. On the other hand, it may be that it's not worth the time.
Here are the components I need information on:
Ademco 1023-12 (Alarm processing center) Ademco 216 (Adapter) Moose Products, Inc. MPI-11 (Electronic siren driver module) Acron [Lakewood, NJ] DD-2 (Digital communicator)
In addition, I'm wondering if I would need other parts to complete the repairs--something to reprogram the system, etc. Unfortunately, the company that installed this particular unit (Penn Alarm) no longer exists.
Thoughts, advice, and assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Nick