Hey, DIY-ers.
Dylan here with Alarm Grid.
Today, we're going over how many keypads can I
add to my VISTA-20P panel.
So for the keypads, you can have up to eight
addressable keypads.
These would be the push-button keypads.
And you can have up to four AUI pads, or touchscreen keypads.
So examples of the addressable , keypads,
that would be the 6160, the 6160RF, 6150, 6150RF,
the 6460 premium keypad, or the 5839 keypad.
So you can have up to eight of those keypads
with the VISTA-20P panel.
And for the AUI, or touchscreen, keypads, as mentioned,
you have up to four of those.
Examples of those would be the Tuxedo Touch Wi-Fi, the 6280,
or Total Connect even counts as one as well.
So Total Connect is basically the remote application
that you'll be set up with for monitoring.
This application, you can access on a smartphone, tablet,
website.
Basically, it allows you to remotely arm and disarm
the system, get notifications as well,
and set up z-wave scenes and so on and so forth.
So Total Connect does count as one of those.
So if you have Total Connect, you
can really only use three physical touchscreen keypads
as well.
So it's either four touchscreen keypads, or three
if you have Total Connect, because Total Connect
does count as one of them.
So, for the push-button keypads, we
do recommend to have at least one alphanumeric keypad.
That way, if you ever have to do any programming with this,
you will have that available.
We have come across a good amount of customers
who do not have one of those.
It does make programming the system a little bit difficult,
especially if they're on some type of phone line set up.
So I definitely recommend getting some type
of alphanumeric keypad.
That way, you can also get you know programming access, as
well as a nice display that will show you the zone name, as well
as the zone number itself.
So if you have an alarm going off,
if you've got a door faulted or anything like that,
you'll see on here it will say, front door, for example,
zone 2, zone--
however you have it set up.
So definitely get an alphanumeric keypad,
at least one of them.
And then the touchscreen keypads aren't really needed,
but a lot of people do enjoy having a touchscreen there.
So eight of these, four of those.
So, for the addressable keypads, they
can be addressed through addresses 16 through 23
And to the AUI keypads, or the touchscreen keypads,
those can be addressed to either 1, 2, 5, or 6.
Basically to address the keypads,
we do have a couple of FAQs and videos
on our website about that, especially
for this, as well as the AUI.
It shows you exactly how to address them,
goes over what the addressing is, what it does.
So definitely check those out if you're having issues
addressing your keypad.
So you can also use wireless keypads with the panel as well.
Examples would be 5828 or 5828V The V stands for voice.
Basically, it just means the keypad
can read off zone names to you.
So you can have an unlimited number of those connected
to the VISTA-20P panel.
However, you do need a wireless receiver in order
for those to work.
If you don't have a wireless receiver,
nothing wireless is going to communicate with your VISTA
panel, as it is a mainly hard-wired system.
So definitely get a wireless receiver
if you're looking to add some wireless keypads to that.
So for the keypads that you're wiring to the panel,
something you really need to observe
is the milliamps the VISTA can support.
So the VISTA can support up to 600 milliamps.
So that means that every keypad that you
are adding into this, that you're wiring in,
is taking away from those milliamps.
So, for example, a 6160 or a 6160RF,
they both can go up to 150 milliamps, while a Tuxedo Touch
Wi-Fi can go up to about 260 milliamps.
So if you only have one Tuxedo, and then one keypad,
that's more than half of your milliamps taken up already.
So definitely check that out before you start the install.
Just do a good mapping of the voltage
that you're going to be using, how much power these keypads
are going to draw from the panel,
and how much power the panel can actually support.
If you do go over the 600, it's not really an issue.
You can add an auxiliary power supply, such as the AD12612.
Basically, it's a power supply that connects
to a 16-volt transformer.
Plug that into the wall.
Wire the keypad to the actual auxiliary power
supply, so that way, it is not taking power from the VISTA.
More taking power from the actual power supply itself.
But of course, you're still doing the data wire
to the VISTA, so it's still going to work with the system.
But definitely look into auxiliary power supplies
if you're going be going over that 600 milliamps
that the VISTA can support.
So you go over that, and you don't have an auxiliary power
supply, some keypads aren't going to function at all.
They'll turn on, but won't do anything.
They'll give you misinformation.
Anything can go wrong if you're going
over what is actually drawn.
More than likely, it's not going to function at all.
Definitely look into auxiliary power supplies
if you're going over that 600.
So, as mentioned, we do have videos on addressing keypads.
We have videos on wiring keypads.
We have the products I mentioned on our website as well.
If you want to check those out, our website
is www.alarmgrid.com.
And if you have any questions about how to add keypads,
how to address them, how to get monitoring, so on and so forth,
feel free to email us at support@alarmgrid.com
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My name is Dylan from Alarm Grid.
Thank you for watching.