Electronic Alarms and Home Security Devices - DSC632 Fire Zone disabled?

Alarm systems newbie buys house with existing DSC632 5508 keypads. The system was set up by the monitoring company. However, the 2 patio doors were set up without entry delay and I wanted to change this.

Got install manual and read this very helpful forum. My six zones are entry doors (zones 1-4), motion detectors (5-6). So I did: *8 5555 001 01 01 01 01 06 06 00 00 ## and it seems to have successfully made the patio doors have an entry delay.

Now my question: by disabling zones 7-8, did I disable my heat/smoke detectors??? The manual is not clear to me whether the fire detection is connected to one of the remaining zones.

Thanks.
The Ancient1

In the panel, do you have anything connected to the terninals for zone 7 and 8?

Sigh...(One of my pet peeves is installers that don't mark the zones on the keypad zone label or at least tuck a piece of paper inside the system can).

If you have system smokes (Look at your smoke detectors, they may simply be hardwired single station AC/DC interconnect smokes), the two wire variety is run through the PGM terminals on a DSC panel. The _4-wire_ models can be connected to any one of the 6 hardwired inputs. If you have 6 hardwired security zones on a 632/PC1555, then either you have no system smokes, or they are two wire.

In the panel, do you have anything connected to the terninals for zone 7 and 8?

kcxj, there are only 6 hardwired zone terminals on the control board that I can see.

If you have 6 hardwired security zones on a 632/PC1555, then either you have no system smokes, or they are two wire.

I have one fire detector on each of 3 floors - 2 smoke detectors, and I think the one near the kitchen is a heat detector, not smoke.

The PC1555MX board has only 6 hardwired zones that I see.

Anyway, since I have 4 entry doors and 2 motion detectors, each respectively wired to zones 1-6, what zone, if any, points to the smokes? I see the PGM2 terminal has a wire to it, so I am guessing that is the smokes.

So back to my original question, when I put 00-00 for zones 7-8 during programming, what was I disabling? I see only 6 zones, but the programming instructions call for 8.

Also, can I run a test with central monitoring to see if the smokes are enabled?

Thanks again.
Ancient1

The if they are system smokes, then they would be connected to the PGM terminal.

Though the system only has 6 hardwire inputs, it supports up to 32 zones from expanders, and the zones are grouped in sets of 8 (which is why you null out the last two zones). The PGM used as a fire input is above and beyond the 32 normal zones the system supports. Unless you fully defaulted the system, the settings for PGM 2 will not have changed.

Thankx MrRonFL. One more thing: i don't really understand the difference between setting the motions to 05 or 06. Manual not clear to me. Can you explain?

05 is "interior stay/away" and will automatically bypass if you arm the system in stay mode, or if you arm the system and do not open and close an entry/exit zone (it will automatically jump to stay arming).

06 is "delay stay/away" and acts like an entry/exit zone that bypasses the same way. You only use that one when there is no physical entry/exit door (an all motion detector system, for example, which is normally _not_ a good idea)

Got it. Thanks again.

i know everyone may be different but the only time i use 06 for a motion is when the motion has a chance of catching the homeowner coming in the entry/exit door

You don't need to do that. The standard interior stay/away is a "follower" zone that automatically delays with whatever entry/exit zone that is currently timing out.

The devil is in the details of the zone type description.