Re: why ground an alarm panel.

["alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

"mikey" <loismustdie@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OJ-dnfPGgt8jngveRVn-rw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> You're not forgetting that the panel has less than 20vac in there, are
you?
> Safety hardly seems an issue... I short one of those wall warts if I give
it
> a sideways glance.

The phone goes up to about 100 volts when it rings.
A defective transformer may short the secondary to primary.
Ever see 110 vac and the alarm zone on the same waterflow?
Low voltage from the panel is used to trigger high voltage lighting
circuits.
etc., etc., etc.
js