Electronic Alarms and Home Security Devices - Brinks motion detector wireing

We recently painted our kitchen and we had to remove our motion detector and we are not sure we remeber the wireing for the detector. Does anyone know how the wireing goes for the motion detector? :confused:

There is actually no _standard_, however, _most_ installers use red for + power, black for - power, and the remaining pair are on the common and NC alarm contact. (No, the colors of the remaining pair don't matter, it's just a switch...)

There is actually no _standard_, however, _most_ installers use red for + power, black for - power, and the remaining pair are on the common and NC alarm contact. (No, the colors of the remaining pair don't matter, it's just a switch...)
This motion detector has 4 wires i have the first two ( red and black in place) where do the white and green wires go.

No it's not a trick answer...As I said above:

On the common and NC terminals. If the motion has tamper and/or NO terminals, ignore them.

So do the colors not matter.

As previously stated, no, the colors of the alarm contact wiring don't matter, only those of the power connection are polarized.

On the same note, I started shopping around for a "pet-friendly or immune" motion detector. I have a Brinks system. I don't know what kind of wiring the current Brinks motion detector uses, but I imagine I can buy something like this:

BV600 - DSC Dual PIR Motion (http://www.homesecuritystore.com/ezstore123/DTProductZoom.asp?productID=493)

to replace my Brinks one??

There are three models available:
1) Form 'A' Alarm Contact
2) Form 'A' Alarm Contact and Tamper Switch
3) Form 'C' Alarm Contact and Tamper Switch

I don't know which one to order.

So, I have two questions,

1) Will I be able to replace my current Brinks motion detector with a third party one, like the DSC above?? Will it work with the Brinks system?
2) If so, which one should I order??

Thanks so much. Sorry I just know NOTHING about alarm systems.

I have the same problem. I have a cat that jumps high and low all over the place, and a 60lb dog. I have a Brinks system, installed a year ago. I'd like to replace the motion detector. Won't this (http://www.homesecuritystore.com/ezstore123/DTProductZoom.asp?productID=493) do the trick? And if so, how do I know which one of these three models I need to order?

1) Form 'A' Alarm Contact
2) Form 'A' Alarm Contact and Tamper Switch
3) Form 'C' Alarm Contact and Tamper Switch

Buy the one that's on sale. "Form A" is a relay with normally closed contacts. "Form C" is a relay with both normally open and normally closed contacts available. In a typical residential system, the tamper contacts aren't generally beneficial.

Alarm contacts are normally closed loops, in general. In specific, any standard alarm device like a contact or a motion will work with a Brinks panel.

Again, the "pet immunity" trick is based on placing the device at a specific range of mounting heights (this is in the installation instructions), and the notion that the pet(s) in question are not unusually active and will not leap about above the basic plane of the floor in the field of view of the motion.