Re: Brinks as stand-alone alarm

[Crash Gordon® <NONE@xxxxxxxx>]

I can't answer for something I didn't see or do. I can only relate my =
personal experiences for the past 20 or so years. WE NEVER touch the CO =
side of the NID...there's no reason to. I wonder why any alarm company =
would...I can only guess.

I can tell you I've seen more L1/L2 cross connects done by homeowners =
not knowing what they were doing, electrical contractors mis-wiring =
jacks, and yes of course..telco guys that had now idea what they were =
looking at when they tried to reconnect line seizure. This is not a =
mistake an alarm guy would make, any good tech will always check for a =
clean line and line seizure before leaving a job...YAH... WE  DO GO IN =
PEOPLES HOUSES...and we don't even charge extra for it!!

"Jen...tel" <poleclimber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message =
news:1114129358.297110.325230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Russ your right i'm wound a bit tight, overtime and all.  Didn't help
> that my last job that night was a 8pm emergency call for dead lines.
> Got there and L1 was being used for the alarm and returned to L2 which
> was also active so we had two lines colliding together.  The home =
owner
> said the alarm company had done some work but he didn't know they
> worked out at the NID, but he left before they finished.  Not only =
that
> but they tapped in on the CO side of the NID and cut the wire short.
> Couldn't move the NID as it was wedged between two boxes.  Had to make
> a temporary jumper to restore service and will need to have a new line
> ran to the house all because the alarm guy didn't want to unwrap 6
> inside lines so they tapped the single CO side.  I'm the one who had =
to
> tell the customer that we need to charge him for it, and I'm the one
> who had to get yelled at by him because the alarm company said
> everything was working when they left. Not only that but had to deal
> with the crap about not hooking back the alarm.  Not my job to fix the
> F-up of the alarm guy since he had it wired ass backwards. That was =
one
> of Crash's never do anything wrong jobs probably.  Jen.
>