Hi, DIYers.
Joe from Alarm Grid.
And today were going to talk about how
to use a 4219 Zone Expander with your Honeywell VISTA-50P.
The answer is you can't.
That's because the Zone Expander, the 4219 Zone
Expander, doesn't work with polling loop handles.
This right up here is our 4219 Zone Expander.
This would work great on a VISTA-15P, a 20P, a 21iP.
But it's not going to work for a 50P.
For a 50P, we need something like the 4208SN.
This is an 8 zone, polling loop, or VPlex Zone Expander.
What polling loop is it's a feature
on the panel that allows you to get more zones from the system
by connecting these devices via a wire
back to the designated terminals on your 50P.
It's a cool feature.
Basically, it just allows you to get more hardwired zones out
of the system.
On your 50p, you're going to have
9 hardwired zones on the panel board and the terminals
ready to go out of the box.
But that panel can support up to 86 zones.
So this means that there's 77 zones
that you're not going to be able to use on the panel right out
of the box.
How do you use those?
You're going to use zone expanders, polling loop zone
expanders.
Or you could use wireless devices from the 5800 series
to use those remaining zones.
The zone expanders are pretty cool because each one of these
is going to give you eight additional hardwired zones
to use with your system.
So let's say you have your house and you have your 50P
in your basement.
And the 9 zones on the panel work good enough
to monitor the house.
Your front door, you got a couple of windows,
garage door, some other stuff.
But the panel is full up.
Now you have another part of the house that you want to monitor
and there's a bunch of zones there.
The convenience of the zone expander
is it's going to let you take this device
and install it wherever you are in the house.
Ideally if you can get it close to where
the zones are going to be installed,
that's the best place to put it.
Then all I have to do is connect a wire
from this guy back to your main panel.
And then you connect your contacts
in the room, or in the rooms of the house, or the location,
to this device here.
They're going to send all that information from this device
to your main panel.
As you can see, this is going to let
you place the zone expanders around and get security
on all the different locations that you'd
like to install it on.
The easier way to do this is really
to put a wireless transceiver on your system.
And then install wireless devices in the location.
Sometimes though, the wireless option
isn't the ideal solution for the situation and hardwired
is the way to go.
The polling loop zone expander is going to let you do that.
So the 4208SN and the 4208U, what these devices do
is they allow you to connect a wired contact
or a normal wired device to a polling loop system.
The polling loop itself isn't able to have devices
directly attached to it.
So you need one of these units to convert it so that it
does work with the system.
The difference between the 4208SN and the 4208U
though is that the 4208SN works with polling loop systems.
It has a serial number polling loop
whereas the 4208U can work on all the polling
loop systems that work with a DIP switch setup.
On older polling loop panels, they
require that a DIP switch device be
used to interface wire devices to the system.
So the 4208U is what you're going
to have to use on those older polling loop systems.
The newer systems work with serial numbers.
So the 4208SN or the 4208U can be used with those systems.
Lastly, on a 50P and on all polling loop devices,
the polling loop has a certain amount
of current that it has available on it.
That is the reason why the 4208 and both of its versions
allow for an outsized power source or an outside power
source to be used with the device.
This is because if you have a whole bunch of stuff
on your polling loop, the power draw might be great
and it could be getting close to the limit.
And you may need to power these devices separately
with a different power source so that you don't overdraw
the polling loop itself.
The one big difference too that you're
going to find between two zone expanders that are out there.
There's the 4208SN and the 4208U.
The 4208SN only lets you program the device via serial number.
The 4208U lets you program the device via serial numbers
or via DIP switches.
And again, this is something that you're
going to notice if you dig in deeper into the insulation
for either of these devices.
If you do have any questions about installing a polling loop
zone expander on your VISTA-50P, how to set these devices up,
or really what benefits they're going to give you,
feel free to give us a call at 888-818-7728.
Send us an email to support@alarmgrid.com
or check out our website, www.alarmgrid.com.
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