Problems with an Ademco Vista-15... System won't arm, and it keeps counting?

I've never seen a Vista 15 do any kind of "counting".

First I'd: Remove the main system battery Unplug the transformer and let it sit for a minute, then plug transformer back in and reconnect the battery.

Could be that zones 49-63 have been inadvertently programmed into the system. Anyone have the section numbers handy for those zones so he can check?

*56 but he's gonna need the installer code and a programming keypad to get there.

| > The control pad -- a fixed-word display -- has a "check" status | > indicator on, and the alphanumeric section where I would expect to see | > zone data is counting from 49 to 63, then starting over again. (And | > over and over and over.) | >

| > When tripping the sensors (total of 2 motion + 3 door) the control pad | > is correctly identifying the zones that are being triggered. Inputing | > the master code to turn the system off, place it in test mode, adjust | > other codes, or anything else for that matter seems to have no effect. | >

| > Anybody run into something like this before? Could it be a simple | > matter of replacing a battery or something? (I couldn't find any | > descriptions via Google that matched my problem, so I'm not so sure.) | >

| > Many thanks in advance for the help... | >

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And he will need a 6160 to see what's going on! Maybe he can call Sarasota or Brazil to find a workaround in 120 minutes or less telephonically.

Unfortunately Sarasota Slime knows diddly about Ademco. Come to think of it, he doesn't know much about Napco either. "Attention Burglar! Go ahead make my day!"

I dunno about others, but I usually set my keyfobs to those higher zones. If you don't have any keyfobs, just disable those zones. And if you have keyfobs, remember to enable all four (4) buttons, even if you have to set the fourth one to null. Not enabling the fourth button may give you problem like you've described.

Have you been messing around with your system lately ? Another thing to check is if you don't have zone expander enabled by accident but I doubt a Vista 15 can assign hardwire zones to those numbers.

Many thanks for all of the suggestions. Pretty easy to eliminate a lot of the options... I don't have keyfobs, and am using a pretty restricted set of zones with only a few trips hooked in. *grin*

It turned out that unplugging the system and removing the battery to force the whole thing into a complete reset was enough to do the trick. Everything is working again.

Again, thanks to all, and especially Crash Gordon who won the booby prize!

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| >Again, thanks to all, and especially Crash Gordon who won the booby | >prize! | | | I have it on good authority that Crash enjoys boobies. | | |

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| > Again, thanks to all, and especially Crash Gordon who won the booby | > prize! | | | does that mean that he gets to see yours, or a new set for himself? | |

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