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Hello electricians,
I got myself an Mx4100 fire alarm panel about a year ago from a relative, I unistalled the panel, got yards upon yards of FP200, many sounders, call-points, smoke/head-heads, for which I all know how to wire on the panel more than fine, but, one issue arrised - the Level-3 commissioners' code. Efforts to crack the code failed, with many more hours of reserach completed, I found out I needed the Advanced360 programming applications to re-programme the panel. (I need to re-programme the panel to get the commisioners' code and from there remove all known devices to stop faults occuring in my loops.)
A few months ago, I chopped a USB down, into RX-White, TX-Green, Ground-Black and 5V-Red. I soldered ground, transmit and recive onto their relative 3-pins. In the pictures below, you can see that RX has become undone - I'm somewhat sure that this happened after I did my tests, but it may not have.
Once I had the software installed, USB soldered on, I connected it to my PC and used the Advanced360 programme "Config tool" & "Flash Programmer" to see if I can re-programme the system, and on the panel I did change the switch from "Run" to "Prog" and disabled the memory lock, when the panel gained power, it displayed and animation of the panel with a cable going to a PC with a connecting cable flashing with an "X" on it indicating that it could not connect. The software could not find it either.
Do I need to solder the 5V USB somewhere, change settings within the software, or something else? I need to panel re-programming via the software, I have the 3 applications, Config Tool, Flash Programmer and the Local Terminal, so if there is something I need to do using them, please give me a shout. The chopped USB cable is USB to USB, but I also have a USB to RS232 which I am able to chop.
Thanks for helping me with this, I think I have tried hard enough to explain this - if any of you need any more infomation I will be more than happy to throw it at you.
I got myself an Mx4100 fire alarm panel about a year ago from a relative, I unistalled the panel, got yards upon yards of FP200, many sounders, call-points, smoke/head-heads, for which I all know how to wire on the panel more than fine, but, one issue arrised - the Level-3 commissioners' code. Efforts to crack the code failed, with many more hours of reserach completed, I found out I needed the Advanced360 programming applications to re-programme the panel. (I need to re-programme the panel to get the commisioners' code and from there remove all known devices to stop faults occuring in my loops.)
A few months ago, I chopped a USB down, into RX-White, TX-Green, Ground-Black and 5V-Red. I soldered ground, transmit and recive onto their relative 3-pins. In the pictures below, you can see that RX has become undone - I'm somewhat sure that this happened after I did my tests, but it may not have.
Once I had the software installed, USB soldered on, I connected it to my PC and used the Advanced360 programme "Config tool" & "Flash Programmer" to see if I can re-programme the system, and on the panel I did change the switch from "Run" to "Prog" and disabled the memory lock, when the panel gained power, it displayed and animation of the panel with a cable going to a PC with a connecting cable flashing with an "X" on it indicating that it could not connect. The software could not find it either.
Do I need to solder the 5V USB somewhere, change settings within the software, or something else? I need to panel re-programming via the software, I have the 3 applications, Config Tool, Flash Programmer and the Local Terminal, so if there is something I need to do using them, please give me a shout. The chopped USB cable is USB to USB, but I also have a USB to RS232 which I am able to chop.
Thanks for helping me with this, I think I have tried hard enough to explain this - if any of you need any more infomation I will be more than happy to throw it at you.