Hi, DIYers.
This is Michael from Alarm Grid.
And today, I'm going to be showing you
how to delete a zone from a DSC PowerSeries Neo security
System.
Now, the DSC Power Series Neo it's
a hardwired panel that, right out of the box
it can only do hardwired zones.
But if you add a PowerG transceiver,
then it will also be able to do wireless zones
with wireless PowerG sensors.
So, depending on the Neo System that you have,
it will support either 16, 32, 64, or even up to 128 zones.
And when you need to open up a zone for use
with a different sensor, or you need to re-enroll a sensor,
then you would want to delete it from programming.
And then you can have that zone opened up and available for use
with a different sensor, or even the same sensor
depending on what your application is.
Now the process for deleting a zone
differs depending on whether this is a wireless zone
or a hardwired zone.
For a wireless zone, you're actually
deleting the sensor's serial number,
its unique serial number from programming.
So that way, the sensor can be used with a different system.
And the system knows that the wireless zone is open.
With a wired sensor, it's a little bit different.
You're not really enrolling a serial number with the system.
You're just setting the zone definition
to that of a null-zone.
So that way, the system knows that that hardwired zone is not
being used and, it's available, it's
open for use with a different system.
Of course, each hardwired zone will
have an end-of-line resistor, so the zones are closed,
so to speak but you're just changing the zone definition.
But today, we have our DSC PowerSeries Neo System here
with an alphanumeric keypad.
And I'm going to show you the process for both deleting
the wireless zone and for clearing the zone
definition of a hardwired zone.
Now, we have a wireless sensor already
enrolled with the system.
So we're going to go through the process of deleting it.
So we're at the main screen of our Neo keypad.
And we're going to get into Programming by pressing Star 8.
And then it's going to ask us for our installer code, which
ours is at the default of 5 5 5 5.
And then we're going to enter the programming field of 8 0 4.
And then we're going to enter the sub-field of 9 0 1.
And that's the option for deleting zones.
Now we need to enter the three-digit zone
number of the zone that we want to delete.
And they're always expressed in three digits.
In our case, the wireless sensor's on zone 9.
So that's 0 0 9.
And remember, that will differ depending
on what zone number you are trying
to delete from your Neo System.
But you see in our case, it displays the serial number
for the sensor on the screen.
And we can confirm that that's the one that we want to delete.
So we're going to press the Star key to go and delete it.
Just like that, it's wiped out the sensor from Programming.
This system no longer acknowledges that sensor.
It's been deleted.
And you'll see if I select the zone again,
I'll get the error tone.
And it will say that it doesn't exist.
And I'll show that right now by pressing the Star button.
There we go, we got that DSC error tone of,
that command didn't work because the zone has already
been successfully deleted.
So we're going to exit out of Programming now by repeatedly
pressing the Pound key.
So we're back at the main menu.
And that's how you would delete a wireless zone from a DSC
PowerSeries Neo System.
But I also want to show you how to clear the zone definition
for a hardwired zone.
So to do that, we're going to enter into Programming star
8, star 8.
Then we're going to enter our default installer code which,
again, is default 5 5 5 5.
And then we're going to enter the programming field
0 0 1 for zone definitions.
And we can scroll to any zone that we want,
whether it's wireless or hardwired, but in our case,
we're working with the wired zones.
Depending on your Neo System, those would either
be zones 0 0 1 through 0 0 6.
Or some have two additional onboard zones
so it would be 0 0 1 through 0 0 8.
And if you add one or more zone-expanders
then that will open up the door for more wired zones.
But in our case, we're working with 0 0 1 through 0 0 8.
But let's say we wanted to delete zone 5 for instance.
Let's just choose that one randomly.
We actually only have one wired zone set up
with our Neo System, but I can show you the principle anyway.
So you press the Star key to select this zone.
And you see that right now the zone definition
is set to 0 0 4 for interior.
So if we had a wired sensor setup with that zone,
with zone 5, then it would behave as an interior zone.
But let's say we wanted to clear it out.
So it didn't have anything, we would use the zone definition 0
0 0, three zeros for null-zone.
And you see if I go back to zone 5--
it's changing the numbers here, but let me back
out a little bit.
And then select zone 5.
You'll see that it's a null-zone.
So that zone's not being recognized on the system.
It's an empty zone.
We still have the end-of-line resistor on the zone
so that the system knows that it's closed.
But as far as the zone definition is concerned,
this is a null and open zone on Neo System.
And we could set it with whatever we want.
But we're fine with that for now.
We'll confirm by pressing the Star.
And then we'll just exit out.
We don't care if 6 is set to anything.
We just want it to set 5.
So we'll back out to the main screen
by repeatedly pressing the Pound key.
And we're at the main screen.
And that's how you would clear the zone definition
for a hardwired zone on the DSC PowerSeries Neo Security
System.
So today we've covered deleting a wireless zone from the Neo
System and wiping the zone definition
for a hardwired zone.
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