Re: EOLR Depate

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Crash Gordon=AE wrote:
> 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.
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> "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=20
> > fire and safety.=20
> >=20
> >