Hi, DIYers.
This is Joe from Alarm Grid, and today we're
going to show you how to enroll a PowerG CO
detector to our closest Qolsys IQ 2 panel.
Before we start though, just know that if your Qolsys IQ2
panel is on an older firmware version,
please go update it to the latest, the 2.4.0.
This updates the Power G firmware on the system
to 80.25, which makes it compatible with all Power G CO
detectors that work with the system.
The older firmware version on the IQ 2
was running Power G firmware version 80.17, which
would have prevented any Power G CO detector that
was manufactured before March 26, 2019
from working with the system.
And I know that's a mouthful, but this is all
written up on the facts so please reference it as need be.
But before you start doing this, upgrade your IQ 2
to the latest firmware so you can prevent any issues
from happening.
I have a Power G CO detector right here.
This is an older model and this one all I have to do
is plug the battery in to connect it to the system
after I got the system into enrollment mode.
So, the first thing I want to do is jump
into auto enroll mode on our system.
Slide down from the top.
Click on Settings, Advanced Settings, 2 2 2 2,
installation, devices, security sensors, auto learn sensors.
So now, on my CO all I have to do is install a battery.
And it came up on the system.
I'm going to click OK and this is where you
would set up the CO detector.
As we see, it as the correct sensor ID
to CO detector for sensor type and the sensor group is CO.
We don't have to adjust any of this for this installation.
I'm gonna click Add New.
Sensor added successfully.
It's on the system and ready to be tested.
Now, whenever you do install a CO detector on your system
you are going to want to test it to make sure
that it does work properly.
But before you do this, if your system is monitored
by a central station, make sure you put your system on test.
It's very important with CO testing
as if the central station gets a false alarm,
you won't be able to cancel it if it came from a CO detector
on your system.
So we actually reached out to DSC
and asked them how to properly test a carbon monoxide detector
because we were really curious.
And the response that we got is to really test these carbon
monoxide detectors to see if they work using real carbon
monoxide is to put them in some kind of bag,
spray the carbon monoxide detector in the bag,
and then wait for it to go off.
This is a real functional test and it's really
going to tell you if carbon monoxide will
set the device off.
Now, as you can see, it's going to be convenient to do this
before you install the device.
So do this when they're on the floor.
Let's give it a shot.
So I'm going to put it in the bag
and then place it in such a way that the tamper button is
held down.
So I don't have the back plate at the moment.
And I have my canned CO right here.
So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to spray this in the bag,
I'm going to seal it, and then I'm going to wait.
And hopefully we got an alarm.
So I've now made a deadly environment inside of the bag
and we're going to wait and see what happens.
And we got it.
So as you can see, we got the alarm.
I'm going to disarm it.
And we're good.
Make sure that when you do one of these functional tests
it's going to take some time for the carbon
to get out of the detector.
So it will keep triggering until it's out of the unit.
What you can do is you can simply
take the battery out and just let it air out and clean itself
out before you install it again or else you're going to keep
getting an alarm on the CO.
But, it works.
So again, put your system on test
before testing the CO detector.
If you do have any questions about this process,
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