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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

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.

Thank You --