Re: why ground an alarm panel.

["mikey" <loismustdie@xxxxxxxx>]

"alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "mikey" <loismustdie@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > 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
>

ya, really
didn't give that little outburst a lot of thought