Re: CADDX NX-8

["Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brinks uses speakers, not self contained sirens. You can either install a
siren driver, or replace it. Your smoke detector should be compatible if it
is a 4 wire smoke.

Jim Rojas

<jeremy_ho@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1121710756.879528.109380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am an home owner with an existing brinks system in my home that
> previous owner put in 5 years ago.
>
> I am going to remove the brinks system but use the existing wiring and
> the door/window sensors.   I will replace the control panel and keypad.
> Is it possible to reuse the siren and smoke detector from the brinks
> system?
>
> I have looked at a few options and I am thinking of getting the CADDX
> NX-8 with the NX-148E control panel.
>
> Any opinions about this unit? I will be doing the replacement myself
> and possibly with the support from the vendor I am getting it from, and
> this NG.
>
> Initially I will be using it as a local system but definitely would
> consider monitoring service in the future.
>