Keyboard Address Question

[gmcmurry]

Hi Gang!

I am a newbie...

I just installed a Vista 20P to replace my old Napco solely for the purpose of adding an EnvisaLink 4.

Its all in now but I have a few "new guy" issues.

I thought I would keep each question to a separate post. I figure I am a learning curve guy and once I figure out a couple of things, other things will come more easily.

My Vista 20P has three keyboards. Since the EVL4 defaults to 18, I programmed the rest of my keyboards as:

16 Keypad #1 Main
17 Keypad #2 Secondary
18 Envisalink
19 Keypad #3

I am now wondering if I should have just taken the time to move EVL4 to 19 and then add the 3rd keyboard as 18.
Logically, it makes sense but I wanted to leave the EVL4 on its default address.

My question is -- will this cause me any problems? I am a little confused about the discussion of partitions and Keypads on Page 8

Does the number of Keypads have anything to do with the number of partitions? I am thinking I will only need one partition.

Thanks!

Greg

[GrandWizard]

No, the order of the keypad addresses does not matter. Only address 16 is reserved for the default keypad.

There are two partitions available on a 20P. A partition is a separately "armable" area on your security system. An example of a need for a second partition in a residential installation would be for a basement apartment, or maybe a garage/man-cave.

99% of users have one partition, but if you did have two, you must assign a keypad in each partition so that the panel knows you are controlling that partition. Because the Envisalink is a virtual keypad on your system, if you had two partitions you would also need to assign two keypad addresses to the Envisalink as well. The Envisalink can control up to 8 partitions, using 8 keypad addresses.

[gmcmurry]

Thank You --