Newbe Vista-20P question

Try another resistor by trading one from another zone.

If that zone faults, you have an incorrect value resistor or a bad one.

es. I thought I'd see if I could make it work and make sense of it before I invested. I've got it set up on my work bench. It seems that the defaul t installer code is still good and I used the *97 to reset it to defaults. I put 2k resistors across all the zone connections. I can go into install er mode and look at settings. But when I exit the installer mode it says " Fault 07". I can't find anything online to explain that?

Fault 07 means zone 7? The resistors are new.

Yes.

Make sure zone 7 is across 18 & 19.

Zones one & two are unique, taking their own space without sharing common. Make sure you are not making that error.

Dude- I once bought a whole new pack of resistors that were all dead short.

Now-a-days, I will generally meter resistors before I use them.

When troubleshooting, NEVER assume new means good....

take a voltmeter reading across each zone. with only resistors attached, all should be the same with the possible exception of the smoke and/or other 2 wire devices zone. If not, check the resistors, as mentioned (remember murphy's law) and your wiring. If that does not solve it, you probably have a bad zone on the board.

John

Thanks guys. I set zone 7 to off and the fault went away. So now I need t o trouble shoot that zone a bit further. But long term I don't need it, I' m only planning to use a couple zones. I could have easily used a lesser m odel but someone gave me this 20p the control panels.

Really appreciate the help, I'll probably be back with a new question or tw o before I'm done :-) We travel a lot and leave the house empty for extend ed periods so I thought installing this with a few wired motion detectors a nd a siren would be a good idea.