Hi DIYers, Sterling from Alarm Grid here, and today we're going to show
you the installation video of a Honeywell L7000 Wireless Security System.
The Honeywell L7000 is a great system with a control panel, the brains of
the system. It's a touch-screen keypad. To control the system it has a
wireless receiver built in, so it's compatible with all of the Honeywell
5800 Series Wireless Sensors. It has a built-in siren and it supports Wi-
Fi, cellular, and Zwave communications. So for the monitoring you can do
Internet or cellular monitoring, and you can also integrate with Zwave home
automation, lights, locks, and thermostats to make it a smart home system.
We're going to need a small Phillips head screwdriver. When we make our
wired connection, if you're not going to use your LC cable you're going to
want some wire strippers. We have a power drill for when we're going to
screw in our screw holes, to screw the back plate to the wall.
We have a level, measuring tape so that we can make sure it's nice and neat
and clean on the wall. And we even have this nice plastic wire track so
that when we mount the cable outside the wall we can hide it and make sure
it looks nice and neat. In our 5100 Video we show you how to fish the wire
through the wall, which is the way most professionals would do it so you
don't see the wire. But in this case we're going to show you an alternative
option, which is a little bit easier and with this piece it'll make it
still nice and clean and neat so you're not seeing the wire.
Now that we've gone through what you're going to need for the installation,
let's get down to it. To determine the proper mounting position, we're
going to orient ourselves off of our wall outlet that's going to be
supplying our power from our power supply, and then work our way up to
where the panel will go. We're going to use our wire track here, so that's
pretty much going to determine our mounting height.
Now we're going to show you the way to properly and cleanly install this
system. In the past on our L5100 Video we've showed you how to plug this
in, route the wire through a hole and fish it up. Like I said earlier,
we're going to show you an easier way where we're not going to fish the
wire through the wall, but we're still going to make the wire nice and
clean. The way to do that is to simply, when you plug your power supply in,
plug it in upside down. Your wiring is going to come up the top here,
straight into the panel and then we'll use our wire track so that
everything is hidden, so it's a nice clean installation.
We're going to first show you how to do it with the stranded wire that we
have. We're using four conductor 22 gauge; 18 gauge will work as well. So
we simply want to strip our wire back. We have our four conductors, red,
black, green, and white. For our connection here we only need two
conductors. You can either double up so you could do black and green, or
red and green, and black and white, or even easier, we can just strip back
two of these connections and we'll just use the black and the red.
Now, we're just going to strip off a bit of the end here to get our nice
exposed copper which we need to make the connection to the transformer. I
find that with the stranded if you twist it a little bit it keeps it from
fraying on you. So we now have our connections which are going to go to the
terminals. We have our four conductors; we're only going to use two
conductors in this case, positive and negative. So we can snip these white
and green down.
We have our two; we want to make sure that we have enough so that you have
a little play to connect to your screws here. And again, it's very
important that we observe polarity, unlike most Honeywell wired
transformers, or transformers for wired security systems, this transformer
is polarity conscious; red will go to positive. If you do a nice little
fish hook at the end you can hook it around the screw so you unscrew the
screw to get a little gap. You hook it around the back of the screw and
then you tighten it down so that there's no exposed copper and you have a
nice tight connection; the same thing on the negative side.
We use our black wire; we have our hook. We've left enough gap so that we
can manipulate this wire. We get it behind the screw, we tighten it down.
So now a nice firm little tug, nothing's coming loose. We have a nice tight
connection. This plugs into the wall, and provides the power.
So now that we're connected nice and tight, the typical installation if you
were to fish you would plug at the bottom plug and you'll see that there's
a screw here which lines up perfectly with the screw of your wall outlet
plate. So you could remove the screw, leave the plate, and then you would
plug this in and this screw would then hold the plate down and it will also
hold this transformer from getting unplugged in case someone doesn't
realize what this is powering. A lot of times when you are fishing through
the wall you're outlet may be very far from your install spot, and it may
just be this phantom transformer on the wall that no one knows where it's
going. That's why they include this screw, so that no one unplugs your
security system not knowing it's a critical item.
So with us, because we're going to mount it directly over the outlet, it's
okay; we're not going to need that. We're going to understand what this
transformer is and no one is going to unplug it. Instead we're going to
take that screw out, because when we plug it in upside down the screw
doesn't quite line up perfectly, so we're just going to plug it in this way
to make the nice clean install to show the wire track instead of fishing
through the wall. But that's just showing you how to do it and if you were
to going to do it the other way that's what that screw would be used for.
Now that we have it connected, we're going to show you how and where we're
going to mount the back plate to get our L7000 on the wall. With our
transformer plugged in, we're going to use this nice piece of wire track to
determine where we're going to mount it. Essentially, this will be hiding
the wire from the transformer up; this will be the bottom of our panel and
we'll screw it in here. The way this wire track works is there's just a
small gap on the side to fit through the wiring. There's a strip of double-
sided tape on the back so you just press it onto the wall and feed your
wire through it. [inaudible 00:07:56].
So now we have our wire fished through the wire track and we can push this
down on top of the transformer as best we can so that it's fully covering
the wire. We have our back plate for the links touch, L7000, and we're just
going to feed our wire through the back here. There's actually a nice
little slot on the back that we can feed it so it's flush with the wall.
And so we're going to want to cut a length approximately here. We want to
leave a little slack so when we're working on the inside. We want to be
very careful though that we do not cut this while the transformer is
plugged in. So now that we have the wire track ready, we unplug our
transformer and we're just going to cut our wire somewhere around here, so
we're ready to go.
We know our mounting height; we're going to use our level and our pencil to
determine our screw holes. So this is going to sit right above the top of
the wire track. Make sure that this is level, because we always want to
make a nice clean installation. And then we have our four screw holes on
our back plate; we just mark our holes. We have our four screw holes. We
can set this aside so that we can drill our holes for our wall anchors and
screws. So now that we've marked our holes so that our L7000 will be nice
and level and centered over our outlet, we're going to drill our screw
holes. We have a 3/16th drill bit; we have our four screws and wall
anchors. Push our wall anchors in, and we can now screw our back plate to
the wall.
So our wall anchors are in, we're going to mount our back plate now. We
have our four screws; we've switched to our screwdriver for our power
drill. Line up our holes; don't screw all the way in, but enough that you
can hang it; do the other top one. [inaudible 00:11:44] level. You can do
that one all the way and then we can tighten the rest. You don't need to go
too hard, it'll warp the plastic a little bit, but just enough that it's
nice and secure on the wall.
Check our handiwork; we are off slightly. You can adjust that simply by
loosening your screws and tightening them back down so you have a nice
level panel. Now our back plate is on the wall. We haven't fished our wire
yet, so we can unscrew that and get the wire to come in through here to
make our connection. Okay, we now have our L7000 back plate mounted to the
wall. We have our wire track with double-sided sticky tape which comes
right on the back. We just peeled it off and pressed it onto the wall,
because we started from the outlet up. It was the perfect length. We fed
our wire through the wire track on the back of the unit, which allows us to
have this flush to the wall without pinching the wire. And we're now ready
to proceed.
We have our battery, rechargeable battery pack. It sits right into this
compartment. There is a notch in the plastic where you feed the wire and
then you have three wire tie-down points, or wire clips. You simply feed
the wire into the clip. We have one going left, right, left; and our wire
is nice and secure. You can see that this battery just wants to fall out.
So some of the hardware that came with the panel, we have this plastic arm
and there's a little tab on the bottom which hooks underneath. And then
there's a screw at the top. When we looked into our hardware bag there was
a smaller screw, much smaller than the four that we used for the back
plate. That's the screw to use to mount this battery. We're going to hold
this bar down, hold the screw in place, screw it down nice and tight so the
battery is not going anywhere.
Next, we want to reconnect our front plate, which is the circuitry of the
unit. And we simply reattach the two plastic hinges on the bottom, snap
them into place. Now that we have our front cover attached, we want to
connect our AC wiring from our transformer to the screw terminals inside
the L7000 panel. We are not plugged into our outlet; we never want to be
dealing with live wires here. We have our screw terminals along here; our
red positive wire is going to go to +9BDC. You simply unscrew the screws so
you have a little bit of a hole in the back. You feed the wire into the
back and we're going to screw it down. We don't want to use a power screw
on these little screw terminals; we're just going to use our little
Phillips head. Screw it down nice and tight. That's our positive
connection.
Our black negative goes to GND terminal, which is ground, which is directly
to the left. So using the two right terminals all the way to the right as
close to the DC connector as possible. We screw that down, and just give it
nice firm tug on both wires. They're not going anywhere. We've pulled this
up through the wire track so that we have of the slack up in the panel so
it will be nice and tight at the bottom, since we worked from the bottom
up. And we are now ready to plug in and turn our system on. So I'm just
going to hold this panel up so you can see as the power comes on. I'm just
going to simply plug our transformer into the outlet. You can see the
screen booting up. While it's booting I'm going to connect the battery to
the battery clip on the panel. The two-prong plug goes for the standard
capacity battery. We are now plugged in for AC power as well as battery.
We close it up, snap the two tabs on the top and our system is on and
booting up. You'll notice it says, "System standby" at the top. Eventually
after a minute or so this will switch to green at the top saying, "Ready to
Arm." You can force it over and as a shortcut when it's booting by pressing
the home button. We are now green, ready to arm. Our L7000 installation
video is complete. We have a nice clean secure panel on the wall. We have
our wire track, which made our wiring as easy and efficient as possible
while still making it look very clean and neat. If you wanted to be more
professional and go a little bit further with that you could have fished
the wire through the wall up through the back into the panel. We show you
how to do that in our L5100 Links Touch installation video. And for those
that don't even want to deal with this, with our L5200 video we show you
how to desk mount a Links Touch System. That would be the easiest way. We
always prefer to have something mounted on the wall, but for those that
would rather do it that way we invite you to take a look at that video. If
you have any questions on your L7000 installation, please email us at
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