Re: Alarm systems

["Raymond Kelly" <raymondtkelly@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm interested too in anyone who has looked at the NACOSS thing with
say
C-Bus. What I don't understand is what the boundaries are and how is a
potential NACOSS installation defined.
Any NACOSS experiences welcome!!


On 15/08/07, Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   interesting .... 'no feel for what the increase in 'premium is for
> not having a NACOSS alarm ... is it a big issue ? 'guess
> reliability should be better if the alarm system is separate, but is
> that the case, in-practice ? 'just wondering !
>
> Chris
>
> On 15 Aug 2007, at 01:58, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>
> > I use an Ademco/Microtech/Honeywell "Galaxy" system -
several other
> > names it's offered under. too. ( I think latest versions may now
no
> > longer be called Galaxy)
> >
> > It's a great mature system used by many professional installers
with
> > well priced extras available on eBay - including installer
manuals
> > etc.
> > Several models with differing zone capacities and wireless
options
> > etc.
> > Mine is a Galaxy 60. Very powerful programming capabilities as
the
> > product family is used in residential through to large commercial
> > installs. I have wired inputs and outputs to this going into
> > HomeVision
> > and a Netiom as well as a serial and Ethernet connection and it
> > satisfies almost all my HA needs as I have put together a xAP
> > interface
> > to it. Zone activations (PIR's etc) can be reported via 'linking'
> > the
> > zones to outputs or via serial/Ethernet. It may be 'awkward' to
get
> > the full serial/Ethernet protocol but typically its not needed.
It
> > doesn't have any integrated HA facilities persay beyond basic I/O
> > - ie
> > no C-Bus/X10 or programmable serial but my other HA controllers
take
> > care of that. I'm a great believer in each box serving a specific
> > purpose and doing that independently and well. Hence not doubling
an
> > alarm up as a HA system. Others may differ.
> >
> > Main issue will be if you need a NACOSS install with maintenance
as
> > you
> > will likely be excluded from all programming access and maybe
some
> > access via serial/Ethernet. You might have to relay/opto isolate
> > inpust
> > and outputs. This is going to be true on any system though.
> > Depending on your installer they may be happy with some extra
> > facilities
> > though .
> >
> > Comfort is another suggestion. I had one for a while ... for me I
> > really don't like the speech interface or the panels programming
> > structure. The X10 interafce is OK but the C-Bus interface is
rather
> > limted (and expensive) - but then I would say that I guess ;-)
> >
> > Kevin
>
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