AboutDave Neuweiler Expertise The design and application of burglary and fire systems for homes and businesses. Helping alarm owners understand how their system works. Helping to troubleshoot false alarm problems. Questions about monitoring issues.
Experience Over a quarter century in the industry. Experience in installation, service, and monitoring centers. Training manager for a national protective services company; director of education and training for a national trade organization for for alarm dealers.
Question QUESTION: Is it possible to replace a keypad by myself on a home alarm system and where would i be able to obtain one from in Australia
ANSWER: Hello Jay, and greetings from South Florida in the USA.
If you're competent with small hand tools, I see no reason (so far) that you couldn't replace a keypad yourself. However, if you can tell me the make and model of the control that you have, I can give you a better idea of what's involved.
As for as where to get one in Australia, I don't know offhand. There are alarm parts suppliers for "do-it-yourselfers" online, and I see no reason why you couldn't order the keypad from the USA. There may be suppliers in Australia as well.
I hope this helps!
Best Regards,
Dave
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QUESTION: Hi Dave
Thanks for your confidence booster reply. My keypad is a Ademco brand M6673 or N5976V2.Kind Regards Jay Parekh
Answer Hello again, Jay.
I think you'll have a hard time finding the exact model number replacement keypad... but I THINK that the Ademco 6150 is a compatible replacement.
Here's a parts dealer who provides customer support in choosing parts:
You can contact them by e-mail to ask what the replacement keypad is for the 6673. I'd suggest letting them know which control set you have as well. I'm pretty sure it'll be one of the Vista panels.
