Re: Seeking alarm system with wired remote reset switch rather than keypad

[Crash Gordon® <NONE@xxxxxxxx>]

you'd have to find a panel that allows for a zone to be programmed as an =
arming/disarming zone... this of course give you no option to arm =
Home/Away or Perimeter/All. The panel would also need the output =
capability to follow armed/disarmed/ready status of the zone(s) =
conditions.

You will still need a keypad to program the system...I can't think of =
even one panel that you can program without a keypad...so you might as =
well install it.





<mikengroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message =
news:1114793931.505263.196020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My recently-failed alarm system was armed and disarmed using a small
> toggle swich near the entry, and reset (siren stopped and returned to
> armed or unarmed, depending on the toggle switch position) using a =
well
> hidden but conveniently located momentary contact switch. Also next to
> the toggle switch were two LEDs - one lighting when the alarm was =
armed
> and the other lighting when an alarm was or had been triggered. The
> console was hidden in another part of the house. I did the custom
> wiring for this system by modifying an alarm system that originally =
had
> the alarm, reset button and switches in one box. I prefer my
> arrangement to a keypad  because it looks good and is unintrusive, it
> is convenient, it is simpler than a keypad and the switches and LEDs
> are already wired into the wall.
>=20
> Do any of the current alarm systems allow this kind of setup; most
> importantly, can the alarm be reset (return to armed or off mode after
> an alarm has been triggered) by hard wiring a remote momentary contact
> switch to two terminals on the panel? I have read installation manuals
> for a few ADCs and others and they don't appear to have terminals to
> support a simple reset button. The instruction manual for a wired Safe
> House 450 suggests it might, but it is unclear and that's an old
> system.
>=20
> I know I will miss out on a lot of bells and whistles if I don't have =
a
> keypad, but I don't need them. I don't need multiple zones either, but
> wouldn't mind having them. A hard wired system or a wireless system
> would be okay but my first choice would be a hybrid.
>=20
> Can anybody suggest an alarm system that will permit me to do this? I
> want something reasonablly simple but I will buy something more
> sophisticated if that's what it takes to get a system that will permit
> me to set it up the way I described.
>=20
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>