Hi, DIYers.
Joe here from Alarm Grid.
And today we're going to talk about how
to add a hardwired contact to your GC3 system.
There's a few different ways that you can accomplish this.
One of the ways is on the GC3 itself,
there's actually room for two hardwired contacts
that you can land right onto the panel.
You can also use a wired to wireless
module, such as the 5800C2W to interface contacts
with the system.
You can also use a TAKE-345 module
to interface contacts with the system.
And you could also use individual sensors
that do have a hardwired terminal on them
to get hardwired contacts programmed into the system.
Let's take a look at the hardwired zones
on the actual GC3 first.
And then we'll check out the C2W and using the DW10
to add a hardwired contact to the GC3.
So right here, we have the GC3.
And if you look on the back of it,
we've already removed the back plate.
Right here is the main terminal block for the system.
Now there is a sticker, or rather, a tag
that identifies the different terminals
and what they do on either side.
For today though, we're just looking at the GND, the zone 2,
and the zone 1 right up here.
That's these three terminals right here on the top.
Now these terminals, these are what
actually feed the hardwired contacts into the system.
So if you have a hardwired contact,
and we have one right over here--
it's a small little recessed Honeywell contact--
the two wires from it, if we're going to land it on zone 1,
one wire is going to connect into the zone
1 terminal and the other wire is actually going to connect
into the ground terminal.
Now if we have another hardwired contact on the system,
we're going to connect those wires
into zone 2 and the ground.
So they're both going to share the ground.
Now in programming, you do have to set this up
if you're going to attach them right to the system itself.
If we take a look, we click on our 2GIG symbol,
and we enter the installer code.
Ours is the default--
1561.
And then we go to System Configuration.
It's going to be a menu right there that's
designated for the wired zones on the system.
Makes it really easy to find.
So if you click that, you'll notice
that the wired zone 1 and 2 show up right here.
And all your zone programming is right here on the side.
So after you wire them up to the system,
you're just going to have to jump in into programming, set
what the zones are going to do, any descriptors you want
to add, if the chime noise-- if you want them to chime--
and the other settings that are on this menu.
After you're done, go ahead and click on Return
to System Config.
If you did make any edits, it's going
to ask you to save it at that point.
And you'll be able to confirm that.
System disarmed.
So that's one of the ways that you can add hardwired contacts
onto the 2GIG GC3 system.
Another way is using a wired to wireless converter module.
Now we recommend the Honeywell 5800C2W over the TAKE-345
as it gives you 9 zones that you can
land on it as opposed to TAKE-345 which only gives you
8.
We find that you get a little more value out of the unit.
And it's actually a really popular device.
So this is the Honeywell 5800C2W.
If you take the cover off, you'll
see there's a whole bunch of terminals
that are available for zones.
These are where you can land the nine zones onto the device.
So if we used our Honeywell contact right here,
we'd land the wires onto the designated zone placement
that we want.
And then the system would be able to pick this up
wirelessly.
It will work just like any other 5800 or 2GIG
sensor that's compatible with the system.
You can set everything else up.
It's going to read it as that when you program it in.
And it's not even going to know that it's a hardwired zone.
It's a great device to use.
This is super convenient if you're
taking over an existing hardwired system, as you
can mount this right inside of the box for the existing system
and land all the wires onto it.
It's a great device to use.
But if you do want to use the TAKE-345 module instead,
by all means.
It's also a great device.
It's only going to give you support for eight
hardwired zones though.
Another thing you can use to get a hardwired contact onto a G3C
is using a wireless sensor.
That has a hardwired terminal on it
that lets you land a hardwired contact
onto it and then programs it wirelessly into the G3C.
On the Honeywell side, the 5816 sensors
are a very common popular sensor that can do this.
On the 2GIG side, DW10 10 actually can do this also.
So right here we have a DW10 sensor.
This sensor has a magnetic reed switch inside of it.
So if you have a magnet next to the sensor,
you can mount it on a door or window.
And when it moves away, it will tell the system that it's open.
Inside of the sensor itself, there's a little mod plug.
And if you purchase one of these, in the box
you'll have a small whip with another plug on it.
The whip will have two wires attached to it.
Plugging that into the mod plug will
let you splice in the two wires from your hardwired contact.
And then you can program that into the system
as a wireless zone.
This can use both the magnetic reed switch
and the hardwired terminals at the same time.
It's just that if you want to use a hardwired terminal
part for the hardwired contact, you have
to program it in as loop one.
If you're going to use both the features from this contact,
it'll take up two different zones, same serial number.
One is going to be loop two for the magnetic reed switch
and one is going to be loop one for the hardwired contact.
So those are three ways that you can attach hardwired contacts
to the GC3 system.
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