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Just found this old thread. that got bumped up earlier this month. I'm an experienced alarm tech that used to work with Honeywell Protective Services until the late 80s and worked with a lot of Ademco systems after that. At the time I worked for Honeywell, they had a series of proprietary systems, the (as I recall) 2000, 3000, and 4000 series. They may have marketed the 5000 and 6000 panels after I left, but that's speculation.
Aside from being proprietary information, the manuals were pre-internet = too early to get online, even if it weren't illegal.
Sometime in the early-mid 90's, Honeywell bought Ademco and started re-labeling Ademco equipment as Honeywell equipment. Ademco/Honeywell has the Lynx series which includes the 5100, 5200, and 7000, as far as I can tell. There _may_ be a Lynx 6000, but I'm not that familiar with the series. The Lynx panels are keypad-control all-in-one, which I don't consider to give reliable security (too easy to defeat) and I have had minimal experience with them.
The problem with Honeywell not continuing to mention Ademco or the word Lynx in its nomenclature is that its old proprietary model numbers run into the Lynx model numbers and I'm not sure if they overlap or not; so sometimes not sure if I'm working with the old Honeywell or the newer Ademco models. They are completely different equipment.
If anyone else has questions about a "Honeywell X-thousand model", it would really be helpful if you included some additional information: Any other words or numbers on the keypad, or from the control box if it's separate from the keypad, or best of all a picture. Do you know if you have hardwired zones, and if so, how many? If you have wireless (RF) sensors on windows or doors, a picture of that would help too. If you know when the system was installed, that sometimes helps. I sometimes see questions about older models going back over 30 years that are perfectly fixable, but some younger technicians don't know what to do with them.
Aside from being proprietary information, the manuals were pre-internet = too early to get online, even if it weren't illegal.
Sometime in the early-mid 90's, Honeywell bought Ademco and started re-labeling Ademco equipment as Honeywell equipment. Ademco/Honeywell has the Lynx series which includes the 5100, 5200, and 7000, as far as I can tell. There _may_ be a Lynx 6000, but I'm not that familiar with the series. The Lynx panels are keypad-control all-in-one, which I don't consider to give reliable security (too easy to defeat) and I have had minimal experience with them.
The problem with Honeywell not continuing to mention Ademco or the word Lynx in its nomenclature is that its old proprietary model numbers run into the Lynx model numbers and I'm not sure if they overlap or not; so sometimes not sure if I'm working with the old Honeywell or the newer Ademco models. They are completely different equipment.
If anyone else has questions about a "Honeywell X-thousand model", it would really be helpful if you included some additional information: Any other words or numbers on the keypad, or from the control box if it's separate from the keypad, or best of all a picture. Do you know if you have hardwired zones, and if so, how many? If you have wireless (RF) sensors on windows or doors, a picture of that would help too. If you know when the system was installed, that sometimes helps. I sometimes see questions about older models going back over 30 years that are perfectly fixable, but some younger technicians don't know what to do with them.
I have posted a thread about an Ademco vista series security system. My system works as far as sending the codes to the central system. It does not however log events like people coming in to do house checks and I need this to work to justify paying for this service.
I have responded to Randy's question on another thread that he started, and I REQUEST THAT NO ONE POST ANY MORE ON THIS OLD BUMPED-UP THREAD, which had nothing to do with Randy's question.
Please just let it work its way back down the queue and into oblivion where it belongs unless Walybbob or someone with a "Honeywell 6000f" revives it.
See his other thread if you have a contribution, or curiosity about it.
Please just let it work its way back down the queue and into oblivion where it belongs unless Walybbob or someone with a "Honeywell 6000f" revives it.
See his other thread if you have a contribution, or curiosity about it.
Okay, after posting the above ^^, I'm posting this final (?) note about the "old honeywell 6000f security alarm system" in the OP.
I just did a little more research on "Honeywell 6000", and I now SUSPECT that the reason we never heard back from the OP after 1 (one!) post, is that s/he discovered, or figured out, that the "Honeywell 6000" device s/he was looking at to read the alarm system model number---was actually the Honeywell 6000 (Focus Pro) Thermostat.
Now that may seem far-fetched, but ADT at one time used a modified Ademco control and keypad system that they called the "Focus"--for no particular reason that I could tell, except to muddy the waters as to what brand equipment it actually was. So a user seeing "Focus" on the alarm system control box, and knowing that Honeywell bought Ademco, and seeing Honeywell Focus Pro 6000 on an unfamiliar instrument in his house, might be forgiven for mistaking his thermostat for part of his alarm system.
If that's what happened. It's all conjecture with no feedback from the OP.
I just did a little more research on "Honeywell 6000", and I now SUSPECT that the reason we never heard back from the OP after 1 (one!) post, is that s/he discovered, or figured out, that the "Honeywell 6000" device s/he was looking at to read the alarm system model number---was actually the Honeywell 6000 (Focus Pro) Thermostat.
Now that may seem far-fetched, but ADT at one time used a modified Ademco control and keypad system that they called the "Focus"--for no particular reason that I could tell, except to muddy the waters as to what brand equipment it actually was. So a user seeing "Focus" on the alarm system control box, and knowing that Honeywell bought Ademco, and seeing Honeywell Focus Pro 6000 on an unfamiliar instrument in his house, might be forgiven for mistaking his thermostat for part of his alarm system.
If that's what happened. It's all conjecture with no feedback from the OP.
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