Re: cleaner wiring solution needed

[Crash Gordon® <NONE@xxxxxxxx>]

Addressable systems..brings up a point I've wrestled with on and off for =
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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=AE" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message=20
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> Yah...Westec did that here too...man their wire costs musta been high.
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> Westec Edmonton was a darn good outfit.  Mostly high end, high =
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> residential.  I recall one of their sales guys getting really upset =
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> company I was working for there.  We'd switched to Ademco products =
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> opened their branch in Edmonton and started installing Vista 40's =
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> exclusively.  We'd home-run everything in an area of one of these =
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> houses (front upper, back upper, front lower, and back lower) to =
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> in a convenient closet.  When Westec took over one of our pre-wires, =
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> golly gosh darn, the only points that were home run to the actual =
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> unit were in the basement (+ the keypads).  "What?" I asked.  "You =
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> you've never heard of an addressable system??"
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> The Edmonton franchise holders sold the whole kit and kaboodle to ADT =
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> around 1986/87.  They walked away with a really nice "pile" of =
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> That's when more than just the name went into the toilet.  ADT was =
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> the $395 systems then and their residential service sucked.  They =
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> obtain parts for the Westec panels from California and the customers =
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> these systems wound up bailing on them big time.=20
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