Hi DIY-ers, Joe here from AlarmGrid,
and today we're going to talk about how many hardwired zones
are in a Lyric security system.
The Lyric system itself can support up
to 120 wireless zones, and it can also
support two hardwired zones.
Now you have the lyric system at home,
you may have noticed that on the back, on a terminal block,
there's actually three terminals that point out
these hardwired zones.
Let's take a look.
Right down here, this is the terminal block
that you connect the power to on the system.
And you'll notice that these three terminals right up here,
it says HWZ1, GND, and HWZ2.
These are pointing to the two hardwired zones on the system.
With your hard wired contact, the wires
that basically going to run back to the system.
And depending on whether you want to use Zone 1 or Zone 2,
you're going to land the wires on the respective terminals.
Both of the zone wires are actually
going to connect to the ground lug, and that's perfectly fine.
You just need the two wires from the zone that you
want to use on the HWZ1 and GND, or HWZ2 and GND
and they'll work just fine.
Let's take a look at programming and see what it looks
like to set these zones up.
So if you look at our Lyric system right here,
your system may be on this screen,
or may be on this screen.
If it is on this one, click on Security.
Then click on Tools, and then enter the installer code.
Ours is the default. So we're going to enter 4-1-1-2.
Then click on Program, then click on Zones.
Now the two zones right here on the top, one and two,
these are actually pointing to the hardwired zones
on the system.
So let's say we have our zone wires landing on HWZ1 and GND.
That means we're going to program zone number
one on the system.
So if we click on number one, and then click on edit,
it looks just like any of the other zone programming
screens on the system for programming
the wireless zones, except it doesn't have the RF options,
as it's not a wireless zone.
You can set the zone descriptions right here.
You can change the device type.
You can change the response type for the zone itself,
and then supervision, you can have the system look
for end of the line resistor, if you have one connected.
Or you can have it look for a contact that's
normally closed, or normally open without a resistor.
So however you have the zone set up,
you can configure it to work just fine with this set the way
you want.
Go ahead and click Save, that'll save
the programming for the zone.
And then assuming that you wired it correctly,
it should start working as soon as you back out of programming.
Now, there's a few other options that you have
that you want to interface hardwired zones with the Lyric
security system.
One of the more popular ones is the 5800 C2W.
This device here lets you land nine hardwired zones onto it,
and then all those zones can be programmed
into zones on the Lyric.
This is really commonly used when a person is taking over
an existing hardwired security system with a Lyric,
as you can just take the old system down.
You can install this right in the existing box,
land all the existing hardwired zones to this device,
and then they program wirelessly to the Lyric itself.
It works great, just know that you're
going to need a backup battery for this,
and it does require a power transformer
that is does ship with.
The backup battery is not included with the 5800 C2W.
So you will want to order one on the side,
if you do pick this up.
And he uses a 12 volt backup battery.
Another device you can use to interface
a hard wired zone with the Lyric is the 6CT, the original one.
This is the box for it right here.
Here's the contact itself.
This has a magnetic Reed switch that can be used to work,
so when it's next to a door or window,
the magnet moves away from the contact.
The system knows that it's open, it
moves back, it knows that it's closed.
The nice thing about this contact
is that it also has hard wired terminals on it.
So if you have a hard wired contact,
you can actually run the wires to this itself,
and then this will wirelessly transmit the information
to the Lyric system.
Super convenient to use, and sometimes
if you have a strange install, or an area that doesn't really
let you install a wireless contact to use with the magnet,
running a wire to a hardwired contact
and then connecting it to this can be the perfect fix in one
of those situations.
Just like the 6CT, the older 5816 sensor,
this is compatible with the Lyric system.
It also has a magnetic Reed switch,
so it can work with a magnet just like, the 6CT.
And it also has a hardwired terminal,
so you can land a hardwired contact right onto it.
The difference between this and the 6CT
is that this does not work with the encrypted communication
like all the six sensors do.
And it has a lower communication distance
or range than the 6 device.
Six devices have about a 300 foot communication range,
the 5800 devices have about a 200 foot communication range.
But these are really, really common.
You may have some kicking around the house,
and if you move into a new place,
these may even be installed.
So if we do find them, and you can use them,
by all means there still great sensors to use.
So that's pretty much how many hardwired zones
are on a Lyric security system.
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