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Upgrading your Honeywell VISTA home security system’s PROM chip is an easy way to get more features from your alarm system.

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Once you’ve identified the type of Honeywell VISTA security system you have, opened the control panel and disconnected the power to your system, you’ll need to remove the PROM chip from your control panel circuit board and replace it with a more recent chip that’s capable of supporting Total Connect. With this new chip, you’ll be able to use Total Connect 2.0, which allows you to control aspects of your alarm system from a computer or mobile device.

Sterling from Alarm Grid explains how you can quickly and easily extract the PROM chip from your circuit board. While there are PROM extraction kits that are available online for a small price, there is also an effective DIY method that you can use to extract the chip, instead of purchasing tools.

In the video, Sterling illustrates this DIY method. He uses a small black binder clip to extract the PROM by removing the small metal arms from the clip and using them as an extraction tool. The binder clip’s arms have a right angle at either end, which allows the arms to function as levers so that you can lift the PROM chip away from its housing. Conveniently, there are two small grooves on the underside of the PROM chip located on opposite corners that you can stick your DIY extraction tool into to leverage the chip away from its housing.

As outlined in the video, you’ll use the binder clip’s arms to extract the PROM chip from its housing. Sterling shows how you can insert the arms underneath the grooves on the PROM chip and apply pressure to lift the PROM from its housing.

This will allow you to remove the chip without putting any stress on the delicate PROM housing that you’ll need to preserve. Damaging the housing or the circuit board, it’s connected to could ruin the entire system, leaving you to either pay for costly repairs or replace the system altogether. Once the old PROM chip is removed, you can replace that chip with a newer version that supports Total Connect 2.0 service.

Sterling explains that since Total Connect service is not supported by ADT, the PROM chip must be replaced with an unbranded Honeywell PROM, which will allow the use of Total Connect.

The video then describes how to install your new Honeywell PROM into the housing located on your circuit board by placing the PROM on top of the housing and ensuring the connections all line up, then gently pressing on the middle of the chip to secure the chip in the housing. You’ll want to be sure to that the chip is seated as far into the housing as possible to be sure that it’s well connected to the housing.

This video concludes with some instructions on how to reconnect power to your system. Once you’ve reconnected power and closed up your alarm control panel, you’ll have a home security system that supports Total Connect 2.0.

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