![]() Keypads are not considered field-repairable by dealers and are usually just replaced, but a KP that old is going to be hard to find and I personally would be wary of any replacement you might be able to find on eBay or wherever: Whatever any replacement's source, those KPs went out of production ~25 years ago. How handy are you at troubleshooting? It's possible that your errant KP can be repaired, but I wouldn't bet on it. The malfunction could be as simple as a bad LED, or it could be something more complex. Which it probably is, if two of your KPs are showing it is. The Power LED shows that your Panel (the 8980 PCB in the steel cabinet) is getting its nominal 16.5 VAC power from your power transformer plugged into an outlet somewhere. If one of your Keypads has the power led off and the other two KPs show it on, it probably means you have one malfunctioning KP. ![]() May seem nit-picky, but in troubleshooting, it's really helpful if we're using the same terminology. ![]() What you're talking about is 3 Keypads, the interfaces between User and Control Panel (or just "Panel"). In the alarm industry, when we refer to a " Control Panel", we're talking about the "brain" of the system, a PCB located in a steel cabinet somewhere, usually in some out-of-the-way place like an unfinished basement, closet, or utility area. ![]()
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