ELK 6030 PIR Motion Sensor

[Doug G]

I was out for evening and while I was gone my alarm went off and discovered one of my three motion sensors just randomly tripped itself. I pulled the sensor down and pulled the batteries out of it and did test each of them and they are at 2.985 volts, which is not low enough in my opinion. I mounted it back on the wall and it seems to be fine, and the zone went back to normal for the remainder of the evening. The next day I found the zone violated. It was the same zone for the Motion Sensor that keeps tripping itself. I have a total of three and the other two are working great. I have the sensor pulled off the wall and testing it myself and well it seems to be fine for a moment then it trips itself. What would cause this? Is the sensor failing? I am just curious as I am thinking this sensor is failing.

[Brad Weeks]

Did the M1 go into Burg Alarm or Zone Trouble? When you remove the 6030 from the mounting bracket there is a tamper switch that needs to be depressed and perhaps it isn’t being pressed in far enough. If there was an issue with the batteries the 6030 would have sent a message to the M1 and the keypad would display “Trans Lo Batt”.

[Doug G]

@Brad Weeks It went into a Burglar Alarm “State” as my monitoring company alerted me both times on that same motion sensor / zone. I got home and it was for sure tripped on that Motion Sensors zone. There was no issue of any burglary (WE DO NOT have pets) and I put my key pin in on the keypad to reset the status of the alarm system and it told me that the Motion Sensor zone is still stuck open. I pulled the sensor down and pulled both batteries out and the sensor reset on its own. I am aware of the tamper switch on the back and made sure that was fine and it is. So the next day I woke up and the sensor shows that it was tripped again and keep in mind the alarm was disarmed as we are home, so we disarm it when we are home all day. So I ended up pulling the sensor down and disabling that specific zone the sensor was on and all issues went away. I ordered a new motion sensor and put that one up and re-enabled the zone for that sensor and I changed out the TXID from the old sensor to the new sensor and it has been great so far for the past 1.5 weeks. So I am thinking the sensor went bad. Thank you.

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