Re: cleaner wiring solution needed

["Jackcsg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kinda like a Radionic's 8112 install. Guess a lot of dealers didn't realize
you could put the modules in the field. Everytime I go into an older school
installation, I find a box full of PoPit's.
Does make replacing them easier though....

"R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I believe you can still install an addressable system even when every
point
> is home run. Just loop them together in the can..
>
> RHC
>
> "Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Yah that's kinda how I feel too.
> But dang, what if all I knew was addressable systems ? :-)
>
> "R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Since you're asking for comments, I'll just say that would be the wrong
> > thing to do. If you're being paid outright for the prewire, then whether
> > you
> > get the follow on alarm system should not really be part of the
equation.
> > Nor should you do anything in the prewire procedure that would limit
other
> > companys abilities to come in to bid. If you prewired in such a way that
> > you
> > limit the type of alarm system that must be put in, then I'd also say
that
> > is not giving the builder client what he is paying for. Nor for that
> > matter,
> > the end user homeowner....
> >
> > You asked...my 2 cents...
> >
> > RHC
> >
> > "Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Addressable systems..brings up a point I've wrestled with on and off for
> > years.
> >
> > Should I prewire for addressable systems to keep the inexperienced
> > down&dirty trunk slammers from lowballing trim outs on my prewires?
> >
> > Anybody?
> >
> >
> > "Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > >
> > > "Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > Yah...Westec did that here too...man their wire costs musta been high.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Westec Edmonton was a darn good outfit.  Mostly high end, high
> > > visibility
> > > residential.  I recall one of their sales guys getting really upset
with
> > > the
> > > company I was working for there.  We'd switched to Ademco products
when
> > > ADI
> > > opened their branch in Edmonton and started installing Vista 40's
almost
> > > exclusively.  We'd home-run everything in an area of one of these
> > > "monster"
> > > houses (front upper, back upper, front lower, and back lower) to
> > > expanders
> > > in a convenient closet.  When Westec took over one of our pre-wires,
> > > well,
> > > golly gosh darn, the only points that were home run to the actual
> > > control
> > > unit were in the basement (+ the keypads).  "What?" I asked.  "You
mean
> > > you've never heard of an addressable system??"
> > >
> > > The Edmonton franchise holders sold the whole kit and kaboodle to ADT
in
> > > around 1986/87.  They walked away with a really nice "pile" of
change...
> > > That's when more than just the name went into the toilet.  ADT was
> > > selling
> > > the $395 systems then and their residential service sucked.  They
> > > couldn't
> > > obtain parts for the Westec panels from California and the customers
> > > with
> > > these systems wound up bailing on them big time.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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