Re: Your Favorite Install Tool?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dial first and delay the siren...interesting idea. I dont know of an alarm
panel that can do that out of the box (maybe dunno), you could probably rig
a time delay relay on the siren though.


"Sylvain Robitaille" <syl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Crash Gordon wrote:
|
| >| (Have I just gotten kicked out of the newsgroup? ;-)
| >
| > No...why? You're asking good questions.
|
| Well, a) I'm asking lots of questions, and getting lots of free help,
| but more importantly, b) I suggested that I found alarm components to be
| unsightly.  Some people might be sensitive about that!  ;-)
|
| Seriously, I agree that they're not more unsightly than say a
| thermostat, or doorbell, or ...  It's still not a reason to put the
| alarm sensors in conspicuous places if it can be avoided (though I do
| realize that sometimes it can't be avoided;  they have to go _somewhere_
| and they might as well go somewhere where they'll do some good).
|
| > It's been my experience that recessed contacts in metal framed windows
| > tend to get welded closed by a close lightning strike, and you'll
| > never know unless you are religious about testing all your window
| > switches on a regular basis ...
|
| Noted ...
|
| > with a surface contact even the dumbest
| > homeowner can look and see if the magnet is lined up...or missing.
|
| Also noted.
|
| >| We had the phone company look at it (we'd requested that they move it)
| >| when we bought the house.  ...
| >
| > They'll move it if you squeak louder.
|
| I'll consider that.  In any case, if they don't, it will probably be
| worth my while to have them move it anyway.
|
| >| It would be interesting (for future reference, really) to find an alarm
| >| system that dials first, and sounds the local alarm later.  Or does
such
| >| a system already exist?
| >
| > Some panels you can delay the dial out for a few seconds...personally
| > I wont do that but you can do whatever you want.
|
| I don't think I'd want to delay the dialing, but to dial before sounding
| the local alarm doesn't seem to me to be a bad idea.
|
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| Sylvain Robitaille                              syl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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| Systems and Network analyst                       Concordia University
| Instructional & Information Technology        Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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