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VISTA-50PEN Installation and Setup Guide

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A Successful Transmission

When a control panel calls the central station receiver, it waits to hear a “handshake”
frequency from the receiver to confirm that the receiver is on-line and ready to receive its
message. Once the panel hears the handshake it is programmed to listen for, it sends its
message. The panel then waits for a “kissoff” frequency from the receiver acknowledging
that the message was received and understood.

Once the handshake frequency is received and understood by the panel, the panel will send
its message. If there is an error in the transmission (the receiver does not receive a “valid”
message), the central station receiver will not give the kissoff frequency.

The panel will make a number of attempts to the primary telephone number and a number of
attempts to the secondary telephone number (if programmed) to get a valid message through.
The number of attempts that are made to each number is set to 8 for each phone number. If
the panel is not successful after its numerous attempts, the keypad will display “Comm
Failure.”

Reporting Formats

The following chart defines the three sets of (handshake/kissoff) frequencies that the panel
supports and the different formats that can be sent for each.

FORMAT TIME

HANDSHAKE

TRANSMITS DATA

KISSOFF

TRANSMIT

Low Speed

3+1

4+1

4+2

1400Hz

1900Hz (10PPS)

1400Hz

Under 15 secs.

(Standard report)

Sescoa/Rad

3+1

4+1

4+2

2300Hz

1800Hz (20PPS)

2300Hz

Under 10 secs.

(Standard report)

Express

4+2

1400–2300Hz

DTMF (10 cps)

1400Hz

Under 3 secs.

High Speed

1400–2300Hz

DTMF (10 cps)

1400Hz

Under 5 secs.

Contact ID

1400–2300Hz

DTMF (10 cps)

1400Hz

Under 3 secs.

ADVISORY: ADEMCO's Contact ID reporting is capable of uniquely reporting all 128 zones of information, as well
as openings and closings for all 128 users, to central stations equipped with the ADEMCO 685 receiver using
software level 4.4 or higher. Must be level 4.7 or higher to fully support all new VISTA-50PEN report codes. 685
software levels below 4.4 cannot support Contact ID reporting. If you need to update your 685 receiver, contact
your distributor.

The following describes each format in greater detail.

3+1 and 4+1 Standard
Formats

Comprised of a 3- (or 4-) digit subscriber number and a single digit
report code (e.g. Alarm, Trouble, Restore, Open, Close, etc.).

3+1 and 4+1 Expanded
Formats

Comprised of a 3- (or 4-) digit subscriber number, and a two-digit report
code. The first digit is displayed on the first line, followed by a second
line where the first digit is repeated 3 (or 4) times and followed by the
second digit. This is the “expanded” digit.

4+2 Format

Comprised of a 4-digit subscriber number and 2-digit report code.

ADEMCO Contact ID
Reporting Format

Comprised of a 4-digit subscriber number, 1-digit event qualifier ("new"
or "restore"), 3-digit event code, 2-digit Partition Number, and 3-digit
zone number, user number, or system status number.

ADEMCO High Speed

Comprised of 13 digits as follows: A 4-digit account eight
channels of zone information (1-8 or duress plus 9-15) + one status
channel, which identifies the type of events being reported in the eight
zone locations.