Re: Elk M1G for Rehabbed House

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > It was a good panel for its day and there are many many still out there.
> > We're talking the mid 80's here. It was one of the first to go into a
new
> > generation of alarm panels. Sure, times have changed and the industry
has
> > moved on, but it was a work horse panel. Nothing really wrong with it
> other
> > than personal preferences.
>
> It was a GREAT panel: fully programmable zones, 2 entry delay timers, user
> changeable codes, keypad programmable, a mess of onboard outputs, (and no
> need to program them, just connect the appropriate wire from the J-16
> connector to an onboard relay), plenty of power (900ma), a large sturdy
can,
> a power-down switch, and a motherboard that unplugs from the can. I
thought
> that feature would come in real handy, but it turns out I had to replace
> only 3 or 4 boards, and I put a boatload (pun intended for Mark) of them
in.
> I still have a bunch of them out there, sending me money regularly.
>
> A couple of drawbacks were that end users seem to have a hell of a time
> figuring out the l.e.d. keypads, and while communicating, the panel will
no
> readily accept keypad entries.
> js

I always told them the * key is their friend, the problem with keypad
entries while communicating seems to be because the keypad is also beeping
and pressing *stops it enough to easily turn the system off

The biggest drawback to me is need to press 1 then the code to turn it on
and off which always confuses the hell out of the customers when they change
codes, and the non-ability to have a 0 in any part of the code except the
beginning. Biggest drawback of course is that its a Moose panel