Hi, DIYers.
This is Dylan with AlarmGrid.
Today, we're going to be going over what is
a CKT error on my 6160 keypad?
So CKT is basically open circuit.
That means that the keypad is not communicating
with the panel well enough.
That can be caused by a number of things.
It could be caused by wiring.
Could be caused by improper address.
Or it could be caused by a defaulted keypad or panel.
I'm going to be showing a couple of things today.
First, we're going to start off with the wiring.
So with the keypads, they're wired similarly
to how a communicator is wired into a VISTA panel.
You're going to have a positive and negative power, as well
as a data in and data out for wiring.
So on the VISTA system, and on the keypad as well,
the yellow and the green is the data in
and data out respectively.
So you see the yellow is going into that little portion
right there.
Not sure if you can see the up arrow.
And the green arrow is going to the opposite terminal,
which has a down arrow, one for data in, up, data out, down.
Now those are going back to the VISTA system.
A lot of people get confused, and they'll
put data into data in and data out to data out.
That does not work.
You're going to get an error right away,
and you're going to see the keypad isn't doing what you
want it to do, and you're just going
to have to change the wiring regardless.
So when you're doing it, make sure that your data in,
which is usually the yellow wire,
is going to terminal number seven on the panel.
That is the data out.
The data out on the keypad is going to be going to the data
in terminal, which is terminal number six on the VISTA.
So pretty much yellow to seven, green to six.
That's your proper data in and data out.
That also applies to communicators, as well.
And then obviously, you want to make sure
that your ground and your power are wired into the panel,
as well.
Ground is going to terminal four,
and power is going to terminal five.
Once you have all that set, you make
sure that your connections are good, the wires are good.
You can power up the keypad.
And we're also going to be checking the address
of the keypad, as well.
Since we're powering up, we might as well check.
To do this, you're going to be holding down
the one and the three key on the keypad.
I'm going to do that--
[LONG BEEP]
--now.
So one--
[BEEP]
--and three.
[BEEP] And then you see we have CON Address 16.
So when you're addressing keypads,
first address is going to be 16.
So we're fine on this.
I'm going to press star.
[BEEP]
And it says receiver on or off.
[BEEP]
We're going to just say on and just go from there.
So once you have that address properly
and you've confirmed that the data wires are properly
put in there nice and secure, the keypad
should function without the CKT error.
If you do still get that error, there's
a couple things you want to check, as well.
That could indicate either the keypad itself is defective
or the panel.
The keypad is probably going to be a little bit easier to see
if it's defective or not.
From what we've seen, it will point in other directions
as well, if it's not fully functional.
So we've seen people doing keypad presses
where it doesn't register it.
You don't hear the confirmation beep.
None of the LEDs turn on.
Backlight doesn't turn on, so on and so forth.
Or the panel itself, which is a little bit more tricky,
because you want to get with your alarm provider
about that one, so they can do their testing on it.
They can see if it can communicate.
They can see if the wiring is fine,
if it's getting the proper voltage.
But once you have all that confirmed
that your keypad isn't defective, that the panel isn't
defective, your wiring is good, and the keypad is addressed,
the CKT error will go away and shouldn't show up again
unless, obviously, there's something wrong in the future.
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