IQ Panel 4: Length of the Power Cord

[AUDIO LOGO] Hey, DIYers. Dylan here with Alarm Grid. Today we're s to do a video that's going to be quite simple. It's going to review how long is the power cord that comes with the IQ Panel 4. So when you get the system, it does include a power cord as well as a power transformer. But if you don't want to use the included power cord, you can also do custom wiring. So we're going to review both options for that. So just to start real quick. We have our IQ Panel 4 here with the included power wire. So this wire is 10-feet long. 10-feet long comes with the power transformer. Pretty easy wiring setup. There is a barrel connector that connects to the IQ Panel 4. And then there are two screw options for the power supply itself. Now if you want to use a different wire, you can use 18 gauge two conductor wire, since it's only two connections on the power supply. And that is going to be a maximum of about 98.5 feet. So that's going to give you a much longer run. If you anything past that length, you're going to have issues with the power and you're going to notice issues with the functionality of the closest panel. Or again, you can just use the included 10-foot power wire that comes with the panel itself. All right. Now when you're using the 7 volt power supply for the IQ Panel 4, this is a DC power supply. So polarity does matter. If you look at the actual power supply itself, it's fairly simple to tell which is which. It's going to have a plus icon and a negative icon. So when you're doing your wiring either with the included wire or the custom wire, just make sure you're following that polarity. Have your positive to the plus, and your negative to the minus or the negative symbol. OK, so we have our IQ4 Panel. Currently, we have this installed onto a desk mount. So we're going to review the length of the included wire, which I'll review right now. The length is 10 feet for the included wire. I'm going to take the back plate off this so I can show where that's connected. But first we want to power down the system. So go to the top gray bar, we'll go to Settings, advanced settings. Doesn't matter which code you put in. I'm going to put it in the installer code 1111. And then we have the power down. And we do not want to relaunch the wizard. And OK. Lights are off. So now I'm going to remove the desk mount here. All right. Put that to the side. So when you're using the included wire, this comes with a barrel connector. And there is the connection right there. When you're plugging this in, this can be a little sensitive sometimes. So you want to be careful. You don't want to snap it off or break it or anything. And then we have the battery here. So before I start unplugging this, I'm going to first unplug the battery. That way, we have a guarantee there's no power at all going to the system. And I'm going to unplug the included cable, which again is 10 foot in length. And that 10 foot cable goes to the included transformer here. So this is a DC plug so it does have polarity. So we have our red on positive, and then our black on negative. You'll see the two indicators right there. Now if you want a wire that's longer than the 10 foot wire, you can use 18 by 2 gauge wiring, we have here. And that, you can run up to about 98.5 feet. So just real quick to show how that's connected. I'm going to disconnect the included wire from our transformer. It's nice and secured. There we go. And as you can see the included wire has these metal clips right there to make it very easy to install. So we have our custom wire here. I'm going to put red over to positive. Again, since this is DC, you want to observe polarity. Look at there. Tighten that, secured. Black over the negative. So red-- positive, black-- negative. And then for the IQ4 Panel, so on the inside, there's no terminals for wiring. There's only the barrel connector. But the included mounting plate or the wall plate does have terminals right here. These do not require a screwdriver. They're just little push downs. And then when these line up, again, you want to observe polarity. So on here, there is a positive and a negative symbol. So let me just connect these. And black. Nice and secured. Going to reconnect our battery. Battery connected. We're going to reinstall the mounting plate. All right. So it looks like I did forget to feed it through the wiring hole there. So you want to make sure you do that. Just reconnect these. Nice and secured. We have it through the wiring feed right there. Reattach that. I'm going to plug back in our transformer. We got our green LEDs indicating the panel is getting power. Let's just wait for it to boot up. So we're getting power there. All right. So yeah. So again, if you're using the included wire, that's 10 foot in length. If you're going to use your custom wire like we have here, 18 by 2 gauge and runs up to about 98.5 feet. And that's about it. Like I mentioned, can be pretty simple video today. That's just reviewing the basic information about the power cord or the optional wire run that you can do if you're using your own custom wiring. And again, just to mention, that's going to be 18 gauge by 2, and a maximum length of about 98.5 feet. If you did like the video, please like the video. Hit our subscribe button and hit the bell icon to be notified about any future videos we release. If you had any questions for us, feel free to reach out as well. We'll be happy to assist you. Our contact phone number is 888-818-7728. We have an email address, which is support@alarmgrid.com. And if you come to our website www.alarmgrid.com. We have a live chat option on there as well. So feel free to contact us through any of those three options. Hope you enjoyed the video. Again, my name is Dylan from Alarm Grid. 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