| Posted: Saturday Dec 9th, 2006 07:28 pm |
|
1st Post |
rodime
Comfort Installers
back to top
|
Hello,
I have wired the Cequra 2 bellbox with series tamper connection using a terminal block to the case tamper as per instructions on the website except that The 1KOhm resistors are on the comfort panel instead of the bellbox. I have enabled engineer test mode therefore bypassing tamper and for the case tamper, correctly, no alarm is triggered when removing the case. However, if I try to remove the bellbox cover, the bellbox alarm is triggered although the internal alarm is not. I tried physically bypassing the tamper by connecting a wire between the tamper block terminals on the comfort board (existing connections still intact) and I was then able to remove the bellbox cover without the bellbox going off.
Everything else works fine, if not in engineer test mode, both the internal alarm and the bellbox siren go off if I try to remove the comfort case panel or bellbox cover.
I had thought that engineer test mode would disable tamper for comfort cover AND the bellbox, but this doesn't seem to be the case. It's not a major problem to simpy physically bypass the tamper, but the manual implies that I should not have to with engineer test mode.
Am I missing something?
|
| Posted: Sunday Dec 10th, 2006 12:28 am |
|
2nd Post |
slychiu
Administrator
| Joined: | Saturday Apr 29th, 2006 |
| Location: | Singapore |
| Posts: | 5500 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
back to top
|
When you say the Bellbox alarm goes off, perhaps that is generated by the Cequra by itself and not from Comfort, which means that it is not controlled by Comfort?
|
| Posted: Sunday Dec 10th, 2006 03:46 pm |
|
3rd Post |
rodime
Comfort Installers
back to top
|
No, initially I thought that, but it happens regardless of whether the bellbox internal battery is attached. Which is what is really strange. The trigger must be coming through the comfort panel, but the internal alarm does not go off, just the bellbox.
|
| Posted: Monday Dec 11th, 2006 12:47 pm |
|
4th Post |
slychiu
Administrator
| Joined: | Saturday Apr 29th, 2006 |
| Location: | Singapore |
| Posts: | 5500 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
back to top
|
You are connecting the bellbox tamper and case tamper in series to the tamper input. Hence Comfort cannot know if the case tamper or Bellbox tamper is open, so it is not possible that Comfort will trigger an alarm when you open the bellbox but bot do so when you open the case
|
| Posted: Sunday Dec 17th, 2006 06:35 pm |
|
5th Post |
rodime
Comfort Installers
back to top
|
I agree in theory, yet the case tamper is not causing an alarm but the bellbox tamper is when in engineer test mode. The only way I am able to bypass the bellbox tamper sounding is to physically bypass the tamper by shorting the tamper terminals on the comfort panel.
Just to be sure I have the wiring correct:-
Comfort Bellbox
SRN- SIREN
STR- STROBE
TMPR TAMPER (via comfort panel tamper switch and terminal)
0V(TMPR) HOLD OFF -
12VF HOLD OFF +
As per previous post, the comfort alarm is not triggered, neither is tamper registered in the log, only the bellbox siren sounds, but does not if I short the comfort tamper terminals. Anyone else with a Cequra 2 seeing this?
|
| Posted: Monday Dec 18th, 2006 09:34 am |
|
6th Post |
slychiu
Administrator
| Joined: | Saturday Apr 29th, 2006 |
| Location: | Singapore |
| Posts: | 5500 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
back to top
|
I believe the Cequra bellbox checks its own tamper and sounds if it is broken. The Engineer Test mode will not prevent this from happening as it is not within Comfort's control, so you will have to continue to bypass it as you have been doing.
The only other alternative is to bypass that internal tamper and connect so that the tamper is only through Comfort. I cannot advise how to do that, perhaps the Cequra instructions will provide some info
|
| Posted: Monday Dec 18th, 2006 12:30 pm |
|
7th Post |
|
