Hi DIYers.
Joe from AlarmGrid, and today we're want
to talk about the difference between the Vista
20P and the Vista 21IP systems.
Now, we have a 21IP right here, and we
have a Vista 20P right here.
As you can see, the boards look slightly different,
but the systems are very, very similar as far as features go.
They both support up to 49 user codes.
They both can support the 48 zones.
They both had eight hardwired zones
right on the board, which we'll go over in a second.
And they both are fully compatible with Honeywell's
remote services, which means that you can get Total Connect
2.0 on either system.
And they can both be remotely accessed by your security
company as long as you have the infrastructure set up to do so.
Now, if we take a look at the boards,
over here we have the 20P.
Here's your power connection, then you have your ECP bus.
Then you have the terminals for zones
to land the wires right onto the board.
It supports up to eight of them.
And then over here we have our telco connections,
and then finally our ground lug.
Now, if you look at our 21IP over here,
the board is slightly larger but the terminals are literally
exactly the same on the system.
I listed before they both support
the same amount of zones.
The biggest difference between the two panels
is the communication paths.
If you are in the market for a new panel
and you want to buy a Vista, It's
always recommended to get the 21IP,
as you get additional features right on the board
that you won't have on the 20P.
If we look at our 21IP board, you'll
see that up here we have an RJ45 jack where
you can plug in an ethernet cable
to connect it to a wired ether network.
And then right in the middle of the board here
we have this trip that's called the Vista GSM 4G.
What this does, is it allows it to communicate
with an AT&T cellular network.
And you can pop it right onto the board.
It's a great integrated proprietary device
that you can upgrade the system with,
and with both ethernet and cellular running
at the same time, the system will
use dual path communication.
That means is that if that ethernet goes down
on the system, the system is automatically
going to switch over to cellular to continue signaling.
It's a great way to have [INAUDIBLE]
communication path on your security system,
and it's always recommended to do
if you want to go that route.
Now on the 20P, the only communicator
on the board natively is the telco terminal right over here.
You'll see that they're also on the 21IP.
Now with a phone line connection,
you won't have any of the remote services on the 20P
or the 21IP such as Total Connect 2.0 and letting
your security company access the panel to do remote programming.
On the 20P though, you can add communicators that give it
cellular and/or ethernet.
As you can see on the box, we have a device
that's called the GSM X 4G.
What this is, this is a cellular-only communicator.
It connects right to the box itself, if you like.
You can also mount and on a wall,
and it has a four-wire wire connection
that connects back to the ECP bus on the panel.
They're great to use, but this communicator
is only going to give you a cellular communication path.
If you want to get ethernet on the system and/or
cellular and ethernet, you'll need
one of a few different kinds of communicators.
For ethernet only, and the communicator
that the three different kinds-- they actually
have the same housing.
So for ethernet only on this system,
you're going to get a communicator that looks
like this called the 7847.
It has an ethernet jack right in the communicator.
It connects just like the GSM X 4G
through the ECP bus with a four-wire connection.
And it gives it an ethernet communication path.
If you don't want to use this style
of cellular-only communicator, you
could also get a device that's called the GSM V 4G.
Literally looks exactly like this.
It connects with a four-wire connection to the panel,
and that gives you a cellular-only communication
path.
But the communicator that we recommend to use on this system
is called the IGSM V 4G, which is what I have right here.
If we open it up, if I can get it open,
we'll see that on the board itself
we have an RJ45 jack right here, where you can plug it
into a wired ethernet network.
Then right here we have our cellular communicator.
Now, this does give the system a dual path communication, just
like our 21IP, and it connects with a four-wire connection
from these terminal blocks right here.
This communicator is going to ship with a transformer
that you can use standalone to power the system or the device
itself, or you can actually swap the transformer on the Vista
panel, wire this up in parallel with the Vista panels AC lugs,
and then that one transformer can power both the panel
and the communicator at the same time.
Now, these external communicators,
they are compatible with the Vista 21IP.
It's not recommended to use them,
as you're going to lose the on-board ethernet
jack on the system if you use an external communicator.
The reason being is that to use an external communicator
on the 21IP, you have to disable the internal IP path,
so that looks to use that external communicator.
Right here you'll see there's small, little pins
with a jumper on them.
There's three pins, and the jumper is on the top one
right now.
To use an external communicator, you'll
have to power the system down 100%,
and then move the jumper to the bottom pin.
So it would be in the middle and the bottom line.
What that will do, is it'll turn off the internal communication
path and have it look for an external communicator.
What this means, is that if you get a cellular-only external
communicator for the 21IP, such as the GSM X 4G,
you won't be able to use the internal communication path--
the ethernet port--
for a dual path setup with an external cellular communicator.
You can install an IGSN V 4G onto the 21IP,
but you're spending more money than you need to,
as it already has an on-board ethernet communicator.
So in the event that you do have one
of these communicators on your Vista and you want to use it,
maybe you don't have the Vista GSM 4G module,
keep in mind that you can add an external communicator
to the 21IP.
it's just not recommended.
So those are the big differences between the 20 and the 21IP.
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