Hi, DIYers.
Joey from Alarm Grid.
And today, we're going to talk about a new device from QOLSYS,
the 16-F. What this device does, it's
a hard wired to wireless converter.
It allows you to land 16 hard wired devices
or does 16 zones for hard wired devices on the unit.
It works with S line encrypted communication
with a QOLSYS panel.
And it has some other really cool features
that we're going to touch on today.
The box for the unit looks like this.
And I've already taken it out of the box.
This is what the unit actually looks like.
So if we take the cover off of it,
you'll notice that there's a whole bunch of terminals
on the unit.
Now, zones 1 through 15 are for your burglary devices,
hard wired burg devices.
Zone 16 you can actually land normally open two wired
smokes on the device.
You can put 10 on the loop also.
All the terminals for zones, they're
all going to need of 4.7 K resistor,
and that is supplied in the box with the unit.
For your regular burg zones, if you're
using normally closed sensors, they'll
need the resistor wired in series.
For zone 16 with the normally open smoke detectors,
that will need the resistor wired in parallel.
Having the ability two land wired smokes onto the 16-F
is super convenient as it really expands the QOLSYS system
and what it can do and how you can function, especially
for those installations where you're taking over an existing
hardwired unit and there's existing
two wire smokes already up in the ceiling.
This will make your installation much easier and less expensive
because you won't have to replace so many devices.
There's a few other things on the unit
that you're going to want to know about.
One important thing to know is that there is a temporal loop.
This is right down here.
The reason that this is on the system
is that QOLSYS expects most people to take over
an existing panel or panel enclosure with this.
And in many panel enclosure boxes,
there's a normally closed contact
on the front of the enclosure so that if somebody tampers
with it, you can get an alarm.
Whether or not you have that where you're installing this,
you're going to have to close this loop with a piece of wire
if you're not attaching it to a normally closed contact for it
to function properly.
Also, you will need to learn it into the system
by faulting and restoring the tamper zone.
What this means is that when you have the QOLSYS loaded up
into its center learn mode, you'll
have to loose one of the terminals for the tamper,
slip the wire out, then slip it back in.
And it will learn in properly to the QOLSYS system.
It's one weird caveat with this particular device.
There's a couple other neat things that this can do.
It has a built in relay for a hardwired siren.
And it has a 500 milliamp output for that siren.
It's super convenient as all you have to do
is attach the siren to the 16-F, and it
will work when the system goes into an alarm.
It also has 500 milliamps of power
for power devices such as motions, glass break
detectors, or anything else that uses power.
So it can supply that.
And it also has a battery charging
terminal, which you can integrate
with a 12 volt DC battery.
We recommend using a 12 volt 4 amp battery.
You can even use a 12 volt 12 amp battery.
They both work fine for it.
With it plugged in to the 16-F though,
the 16-F will continuously keep that charged up,
and the battery will be able to provide it with backup power.
It also ships with a plug in transformer,
which is going to supply its main power to the board.
And yeah.
It's a really convenient hardwired
to wireless translator.
Again, it does use that S line technology.
So if you do have an IQ2, it will
send encrypted communication back and forth with the system.
And if you are installing it into an existing panel
enclosure, you can attach the panel enclosure tamper
right here to that tamper loop.
And even if it's going inside of a metal box,
you'll see that right here on the side,
there is an antenna terminal.
Here's the antenna that comes with it.
As long as you can get this antenna
to stick outside of the metal enclosure
wherever you do mount it, you will
be able to have it work just fine as the signal won't
get hampered as long as this is sticking out of the metal box.
If you do have any questions though about the 16-F,
how to install it, how to integrate it with your QOLSYS
system, or anything else alarm or security system related,
feel free to give us a call at 888-818-7728,
send us an email to support@alarmgrid.com,
or head over to our website www.alarmgrid.com.
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