Re: Tamper Contacts

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unless you think someone in  your household is going to sabotage your alarm
you don't need them.

To be truly effective the pir would have to have been wired with 6 conductor
wire (or you could mickey-rig it with only 5 cond...duh) ; two for the
relay, two for power and two for the tamper. The tamper circuit would then
be run to a 24 hour alarm zone. Some companies will wire the tamper circuit
in series with the relay contacts - therefore being able to utilize only 4
conductor wiring...I see no purpose in this as it will only be effective if
the pir zone is armed and then the cover opened...duh...(?).


"Will" <DELETE_westes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Keeping in mind that I am an end user with just enough electronics
knowledge
| to get myself in trouble, can someone explain the basics of how a tamper
| contact on a PIR works?   We had to take a DS9370 out of service, and I
| noticed that the two tamper contacts had not been wired.    Depending on
how
| these work, how easy they are to get working, and how important they are,
I
| may direct our alarm guy to wire them in.
|
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| Will
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