Re: Tamper Contacts

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A brief tamper alarm is still an alarm...and depending on how you want the
signals handled by the cs but they generally are dispatched on.



"Will" <DELETE_westes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| "Frank Olson" <Please-use-the-email-links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
| message news:uLl4f.199011$oW2.183322@xxxxxxxxxxx
| > That's only part of the reason to use it.  A dishonest employee could
very
| > easily remove the cover from a motion sensor and wad it with toilet
paper
| > (I've seen that done) so it won't sense anything.  In this instance,
| > employing the tamper would alert the CS who would in turn notify the
| > customer.
|
| I guess someone would probably at the same time remove the tamper wires
and
| set them in whatever state (closed or opened) that would be needed to fool
| the panel?   There would be a brief tamper alarm, but it would go away and
| the alarm center might not act on it.
|
| What would be a lot more useful to me would be some device that would send
| out e-mail notifications to a list of people based on circuits being seen
as
| open or closed (user settable).   That way even a single tamper alarm is
| going to be seen by someone inside the company, almost for sure.    Does
| such a thing exist, or I guess you could just use a separate alarm panel
for
| this purpose?
|
|
| > Sometimes.  If, for instance, end-of-line resistors are properly placed
| (at
| > the motion sensor for instance), then either a "fault" or "trouble" will
| > show up at the keypad preventing the end-user from arming the system
until
| > the problem is repaired.  If, in the process of cutting the wire, the
| power
| > supply is also shorted out, then all the keypads in the system will
become
| > inactive and a call for service will go out to the installing company.
| > However, if end-of-line resistors aren't used and the power supply is
only
| > momentarily shorted (the panel employs MOV's or an automatically
| resettable
| > circuit breaker), then you could wind up with a short across the alarm
| > terminals.  The panel would never "see" an alarm from that zone and you
| > would have no way of determining at the keypad that something was amiss.
|
| Does having the tamper circuit in place improve this situation?
|
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| Will
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