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

["holger" <holger@xxxxxxxx>]

You forgot the most important thing about using toggle switches: it's not
SECURE!

Convenience should not give way to the basic security or integrity of the
system.

Anyway, I don't use anything else other than GE now for the last five years.
I do sell direct: http://www.alarmland.com


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<mikengroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>