Re: EOLR Depate

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

Ever heard of a bad resistor? :)

"mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Why do you have to find the buried resister? All you need is the wire that
> connects to it.
>
> The (D)EOL problem is that it TAKES TIME to do it right and nobody wants
to
> pay for it, thanks to the "free" alarm system, free service idiots
> mesmerized by RMR.
>
> "Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It also turns out to be a service problem too...finding that buried
resistor
> someone installed 10 years ago and now the homeowner had installed a
granite
> countertop right over the window sill covering the buried resistor.
>
> .
>
>
>
> "thesatguy" <jdolan1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> > > We avoid the whole problem of "where to put them" by using contacts
with
> > > built-in end-of-lines.  GRI manufactures them with all the popular
panel
> > > values.  Yes, they're a tad more expensive, but worth it in the long
> run.
> > > Motions and glass breaks all have the end of line's terminated inside
> the
> > > detectors.
> > That sounds good on the surface and easy to do except for the fact that
> most
> > trunkslammers put all the windows in the house on one zone and all the
> doors
> > on a second zone.  They have lets say ten or twelve windows and each
home
> > run circuit has a resistor on it... what do they do?  They can't tie all
> the
> > lines together cause each one has a resistor at the end of it.  Thats
why
> > they don't do it.
> >
> > ADT has become a company of nothing but trunkslammers who always install
> the
> > end-of-line resistors at the beginning of the line.  In the old days ADT
> > always put resistors on the end of the line and most times those old
Focus
> > panels had one device on each zone.  Not any more.  Today its how fast
can
> > they throw in some junk and drive away before the sub finds out it
doesn't
> > work.  I guess ADT figures they can offer some defense in a lawsuit by
> > showing that they did put the resistors in even though they were not
> hooked
> > up correctly.
> >
> > I see their new trucks don't even say ADT anymore - they simply say TYCO
> > fire and safety.
> >
> >
>
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