House alarm Accenta / optima G4 Mini, “fire fault lockout”.

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Swapped burnt out circuit board pics below for a new one + new battery, each wired connection swapped over. Factory bridges refitted connected wires removed. Nothing is connected to the fire sensor terminals (top left). Intruder sensors are wired into terminals 7 and 8. Prog setting all fire is No / Off. Alarm activated with FIRE - zone eight, I removed connections. Then FIRE - zone 7 again removed connections. “fire fault lockout” then shown? Reconnected 7 & 8 still “fire fault lockout” and sensor 8 no longer functions. How can I solve this anybody? Or do I have a faulty new circuit board? Note on first power up had TAMPER FAULT LOCKOUT strongly suspect this is from the external SCB - Self Contained Bell box. As I cannot get any sound from it only flashing light.
[GALLERY=media, 103728]Main Box Circuit Board Faild Resister by DIYCustard posted 30 Dec 2019 at 4:15 PM[/GALLERY]
 
Hi Secure I am, thanks for looking at my question. No it is the old failed board - thought it was worth showing a picture.

as stated " Swapped burnt out circuit board pics below for a new one"
 
On the circuit board top left hand side are 3 terminal blocks marked +13V - 0V - Fire.
Brand new complete alarm panel and LCD display from Amazon. Only Swapped out circuit board and just in case something had changed the separate LCD display unit.
 
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These are the outputs for a communicator
Check your programming is correct sounds like programmed wrong.
 
Hi Andymanjo yes I agree it does sound like a incorrect program setting at first. But I have been through the installation manual cover to cover three times, making sure everything is set up as explained. Also as I now have a “fire fault lockout” which I am assuming is a incorrect signal back to the control panel inline with TAMPER FAULT LOCKOUT as detailed here in other threads. I need fault finding sequence to try to narrow down on were to look to resolve. Suspect their is more than a single fault.

Hello Sparkymarka, nothing wired to that terminal. Only Zones 7 and 8 which can be programmed as fire zones. Extract from the manual Pg 7
"The fire zone detects fires all the time and will operate whether the system is Set or Unset" this was what was occurring indication zone 8 which is were we were standing so it detected us? Hence why a disconnected the sensor cables into the panel. then it sounded fire from zone 7 a bedroom we were not in - nothing to detect. Really confused me. Disconnected zone 7 it then gave this FIRE FAULT LOCKOUT! reconnected Zone 7 and 8 now will not clear this lockout fault also zone 8 sensor has stopped working.
 
Okay, firstly I would have a picture of old wiring versus new pictures of PCB's so we can see.

secondly I would default the panel and then go through the programming again from scratch.
 
Zones 7 & 8 can be programmed as INTRUDER zone,exit zone of fire zone.
If you have a pir wired into these zones then they should not be programmed as fire.
 
Thanks everyone - Happy new year to you.
I will get pictures of the wiring next time I'm at my brother In-law - most likely this weekend.
thanks for the tip to put a link in 7 and another in 8 I was not sure if I could do that, or the effect.
Re-setting the whole system was going to be my next plan of action and starting from scratch (in effect turning it off and on again:-).
My other thought was, what caused the resistor to fail? colour code gold, black, Violet - could the transformer in the panel box have a fault as this has not been swapped out. Causing the issues through incorrect voltage or something.
Zone 8 is the hallway set as a exit zone.
Going to my youngest sons to help him move into a new house - complete DIY tasks over the next few days. DIYCustart to the rescue.
 
The reason the resistor failed is .....the battery was not replaced and it burnt it out , a common issue on these cheap panels
 
Finally got back to the brother in-law’s alarm. Kept all the Tamp etc, links in per instruction manual. Confirmed sensor 8 – porch, including siren in external bell box not working, although strobe functions. Put link in 7 and 8 per sparkymarka suggestion - FIRE FAULT LOCKOUT! Disappeared resulting in Fire in porch alarm.

Factory reset the board per Secureiam suggestion. Went through the manual setting everything up again. Fantastic no fault codes showing – worked correctly.

Rewired Sensor 7 and 8 in again – came up with sensor eight fault. Put link back in 8 all OK.

I will report back again once I have replaced the sensor and “Saturn” security system bell box.
 
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