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  1. R

    Magnetic door contact

    Thanks for your patience. I appreciate it. The live are connected to the silver terminals that are attached to each end of the reed. The tamper is connected to a unused terminal meant to be for joined cables. I'm beaten!. One again thanks for your patience
  2. R

    Magnetic door contact

    The recommended way is to join the tampers to a spare terminal on the switch which I've done. Without this the system shows a tamper fault and will not set. Is it possible that the magnet needs rotating to change polarity against the reed
  3. R

    Magnetic door contact

    Hi thank you for your prompt reply. Yes I meant R8,sorry. I have the engineers code and manual and know the zone. The zone is programmed to entry/exit. When I reinstall the original pir it works fine. Is there any other programming required by replacing the type of sensor Regards Roger
  4. R

    Magnetic door contact

    Hi. I have replaced a room pir with a door contact and mounted reed switch and magnet in close proximity. The alarm sets and when zone tested the alarm activates. When I full set the alarm panel the opening door doesn't activate the alarm whether set on entry/exit mode or guard. The system is a...
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