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I finally got a stubborn DSC panel to talk to a new keypad by swapping the data pair
Had a job last week in a 20 year old house where the old keypad died and the new one just showed a blank screen, even with the right address. I was about to pull new wire when I remembered an old forum post saying to reverse the green and yellow data wires on the keypad side. Tried it and the thing lit right up, saved me at least an hour of fishing cable. Anyone ever run into that on a DSC 1832 before?
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blake4322mo ago
That trick can work, but it's usually a band-aid fix. Swapping the data pair often means there's a break or short in one of the original wires. You might have just gotten lucky that the keypad still works on a single data line.
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drewjenkins2mo ago
My old garage door opener did that exact same thing last winter.
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hill.jade20d ago
Your mileage may vary but I've seen plenty of cases where swapping the pair works just fine for years. If the voltage drop is small enough the keypad doesn't care if it's running on one data line.
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