Re: EOLR Depate

["Aegis" <lordaegis@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is no debate... If there was any reason not to put the EOL resistors
at the EOL, the manufacturers wouldn't even provide them in the box. The
fact that EVERY manufacturer (minus, perhaps, RFI Paul's favorite company)
provides them and only few give you the programming option to turn zone
supervision off tells you everything you need to know.

<rwies@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1143tnbacgj02a8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> EOLR Placement Debate
>
> I have been in the alarm industry for about 36 years now and over that
> time
> I have witnessed many innovations.  One of these is the circuit
> supervision
> provided by the end of line resistor.
>
> When I first entered the industry the EOLR was not necessary because we
> used
> an end of line battery.  The circuit was automatically supervised.  When
> technology moved the battery to the control panel this all changed.  Since
> that time we have debated placement of the EOLR regularly.
>
> I have taught in my NTS classes that proper placement is critical.
> Placing
> the EOLR on a terminal in the control panel is just, in my opinion wrong.
> The supervision is important and not hard to achieve.
>
> Well, now there is real evidence to support my position.  Please visit
> <http://www.securitysales.com/t_ci_articleView.cfm?aid=1926&sid=2>.  This
> is
> a story that appears in this months Security Sales magazine.  A woman died
> and proper placement of the EOLR would have probably saved her life.
>
> I don't know what more to say except do it right.  Protect your future and
> the future of your company or the company you work for.
>
> Ron Wies