Honeywell ADE Optima Control Panels

ADE Optima products have been installed in over 3 million homes in the UK. Their latest range is just as reliable and simple to use but offers in addition enhanced Fire Detection and External Lighting Control facilities, conforming to CE specification directives and BS4737 standards.

Features

8 Zones - Each one is separately identified on the keypad and provides ample security detection for most domestic properties.

3 part set programs - Allows three programmed setting levels dependent on the people in the property or the level of protection required, eg. night-time with upstairs detectors off and perimeter detectors on.

Simple set readers for ease of operation - Up to 4 stylish readers can be used to SET/UNSET the system using a proximity keyfob. Ideal for young, elderly or infirm (see below).

Personal attack facility - Any number of PA buttons may be set to activate the system in an emergency. An additional PA facility exists on the remote keypads.

Remote keypads for added flexibility - Up to four slimline keypads can operate the system from any point in the property (See below).

6 Digi-Outputs - For a wire-in digital communicator, RedCare STU or Dialler. This allows the system to communicate with an Alarm Receiving Centre for direct police response (not fitted on Optima Compact G4).

Input for Remote Keyswitch or Push to Set Switch - A remote keyswitch or push (eg. door bell) may be used to set or unset the system.

Fire Zone - Any number of zones can be programmed as a Fire Zone. Two types are available: Standard Fire – Operated only when system has been set; 24 Hour – Operates all of the time.

Lighting Control Feature - The G4 range is compatible with ADE’s lighting controller giving full manual and automatic control over security lighting.

Duress Code - Allows the user to unset the system and silence the alarm under duress, using a second code that will communicate an alarm to an Alarm Receiving Centre.

Chime - Can be used to select a low security chime alarm for various areas of your house, even when the main alarm is turned off. When a door is opened or a detector triggered in an area set to chime, the control panel will deliver a low-volume ‘bing-bong’ sound to alert you. This is ideal for areas in which a child may be in danger.

Service Timer Warning - It is recommended that your alarm is maintained periodically and this feature highlights the most appropriate times. This, however, will not interfere in any way with the day to day operations of your system or its capabilities.

Built-in tamper control - To protect all wiring and detectors in the system from unauthorised access including the control panel and remote keypad covers. 

Please see the pdf download, above right, for further information.

Please click this link for Honeywell ADE user instructions

To change the bell time

• Press program and enter the engineer code
• Press No 7 and then No 1
• Bell Time and enter in minutes
• Then press Tick or Set
• Press Reset to exit program

Please note, this control panel requires a lead acid back up battery, minimum 2.1ah see below, which should be purchased separately.

In response to recent feedback, when connecting to an Active Guard AG6 or AG8 bell box the connections are:

ADE G4 Control Panel	D	A	B	Strobe -	T
AG6/8 Active Guard Bell Box	V +	V -	SW	ST -	R -

• ****Optima panel

  By Ivor frankland on 22nd Oct 2011

  great panel easy to install and easy to operate

• ****Optima alarm panel

  By Jim Smith on 11th Oct 2011

  Great service and easy to install in place of an old panel.

• ****Optima contro panel

  By Dave Harvey on 02nd Oct 2011

  I can only echo what everyone else has said i.e. the internal speaker is too quiet whilst entry/exit beeping and the instructions could have been clearer (a good job I'd wired alarm panels previously), but otherwise it does the job for a fair price.

• ****Ade optima burglar panel

  By N S on 18th Sep 2011

  Excellent product which provides everything that anyone could possibly wish for. Very easy to install. Programming is easy, once you learn the sequence logic. The only criticism would be that there is sometimes no evidence that you have actually entered the correct codes that you intended to enter , and the only way to be sure is to test it out. But otherwise, the system is extremely versatile - I use it for door chime, an external gate chime, as a fire alam, as a panic alarm and to monitor a safe, as well as all the normal intruder alarm functions. There are three programmes to enable for instance a day-setting (chimes, fire, panic, safe set), a night setting (all the above plus downstairs set) and an away setting (everything set). It is difficult to justify spending more money on anything else. Keypads and remote controls are available as add-ons. Technically, there is no connection to a telephone dialler, but in fact, while the circuitry is there, it appears that the connector blocks have not been soldered into place, which would be easy to do. However, it would be wise to check with Honeywell that the firmware would recognise them first ! Twenty years ago, I installed an Optima XM which I replaced ten years later with something with more features. That lasted five years before it failed, and I had to re-install the old Optima again ! It soldiered on fine until I decided to upgrade to something with more features again, so I was pleased to be able to chose another Optima which I am confident will be as reliable as the old Optima which still works as well as when it was new twenty years ago.

• ****Optima compact panel

  By Paul S on 05th Sep 2011

  Very easy to install as a replacement for a failed 'no make' panel. Only dissapointment is the internal speaker - it is too quiet to hear the entry & exit beeps at more than 2 feet away. Otherwise all works well.

• ****Optima alarm panel

  By B.Muff on 30th Jul 2011

  This was a replacement for an old Optima 4 panel so the logic wasn,t a problem. It would however have been useful if the instructions had made clear that unused zones needed to be bridged to cut them out. See B.Healy comment.

• ****Optima panel

  By Sam kothari on 09th May 2011

  Very good and easy to install, programing is simple and easy for customer to understand the operation.

• ****Ade optima burglar panel

  By B.Healy on 07th Feb 2011

  Very pleased with ADE Optima Burglar Alarm Panel working great, but the manual that comes with it is not user friendly I had problems omitting 3 zones that I was not using before it would work, in the end I had to phone Honeywell.

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