Re: Commercial Alarm - help

["Al Colombo" <securitymission@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Vista has always been a good, reliable panel for Ademco.  I started
out as an Ademco dealer many, many years ago, in the late 70s, early
80s.  I ended up working with Radionics, which has become Bosch now.  I
used a lot of DS (Detection Systems) motion detectors and did some
product reviews on the DS line when I worked at SDM (Workbench Review).
 Visonic is a good line as I've used a lot of their detectors.  They
also provided me with some of their detectors throughout the years to
play with and give an opinion.

I think one of the most fun items that Visonic ever gave me was one of
their voice chips.  There's so much you can do with one of them, like
in a museum where you use curtain-type motion detectors.  When someone
gets too close to the display, a voice suddenly comes out of no where
asking them to move back.

I use this at the back of the house in conjunction with a Elk stainless
steel outdoor box with speaker. I use it in conjunction with an Optex
outdoor motion detector.  By day the Optex detector has a female voice
that announces their presence and when it gets dark an on-board
photocell enables a relay that will trip the Visonic voice chip.  It
works rather well.

Al



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