Re: Tamper Contacts

["Will" <DELETE_westes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Frank Olson" <Please-use-the-email-links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> 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?

--
Will