Re: EOLR Depate

["Aegis" <lordaegis@xxxxxxxxx>]

"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

That's slander. What may be the case in your neck of the woods may not be
elsewhere. You are referring to a global organization.

> 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

Today we prefer addressable devices on the Focus.

> 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.

Mine has less than 5000 miles on it so far and the ADT brand is larger than
the Tyco brand.