Re: is wireless mature yet

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Thats very easy Frank, if I had to guess julian used the original DSC
> > wireless equipment which was total junk.
>
> That sorta depends on your "point of view"...

No that is fact, Westinghouse used to install around 5,000 PC5010's a week
and maybe a quarter of them were wireless, before that we were installing
Ademco and ITI wireless. No comparison, with DSC it was nothing but zone
faults, defective sensors, low battery life etc

There are a lot of reasons DSC moved to lithium batteries and a new design,
many of them were because of the crap 900 stuff

> Yep.  But then, I've never mounted the transmitters in the window frame.
We
> always drilled up and mounted them on the wall adjacent to the window
(under
> the curtain rail so you can't see it).  We'd use 3/8" stubbies.  A lot of
> times moving the antenna through 90 degrees was enough to boost the range
> significantly.  Never had a problem with the 900 mHz stuff.

Thats fine however it was an extremely stupid design, also the connector
between the base and the battery compartment often wouldn't "reconnect"

>
> > Also the battery
> > compartment in several of those 900mhz sensors had a design flaw that
> > caused
> > sensor faults.
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> Hmmmm...  Never had that problem either.

The battery configuration would often not seat the batteries correctly

>
> > At Westinghouse we had so many problem with the fucking
> > things we took to mounding ITI QuickBridge receivers with ITI wireless.
It
> > was pathetic...
> >
> > As someone who has worked with large companies with a huge number of
> > accounts I tend to see problems with panels and sensors long before many
> > here do and I cannot tell you how many problems, how many service calls
> > and
> > how much wasted money was caused by the older 900 mhz wireless and even
> > some
> > of the 433 mhz stuff, granted the sensors they make now ARE better but
> > it's
> > one of those "Burn me once shame on you burn me twice...." kinda things.
> >
> > BTW this comes from someone who likes DSC panels
>
> I happen to like DSC too...  even after the fiasco with the PC-3000,
> SkyRoute, MaxSys...  Talk about a waste of time and money...

Or the runaway problem with the PC1550, PC1000 and 2530...on and on and on