Re: Can I do this, will it help my friend

["Tommy" <tommy at leesecurity dot net>]

Put all the Moose stuff on Ebay. There are still a lot of them out there =
and spare parts for them are hard to come by. then take any money you make =
off it, give part to your mini-storage buddy as a thanks for letting me =
rummage gift, and swallow your pride and pay your installer friend to =
install a new panel for you. Since he is a friend and giving you a system =
at reduced cost, you can help him out by playing go-fer and keeping the =
beer cold.
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mm wrote:

> From a friend who runs a ministorage, I got a bunch of old burglar
> alarm hardware, and I want to put in a burglar alarm for my home and
> also save a little money for another friend, who has a burglar alarm
> company.
>
> As a general rule, will I usually be able to use any 4-wire keypad
> with any control panel that has a 4-wire keypad input?
>
> If not most combinations, what about a Moose Z1100 keypad with a Moose
> Z900 control panel.   The stuff I got includes new ones of these, at
> least they are perfectly clean and still in the box, complete with
> installation and operator's manuals.**
>
> Although my burglar alarm friend said he could install it in an hour,
> I didn't want him to come in to my incredibly messy home, so he gave
> me the standard panel he uses, new in the box, for me to install,
> because he knows I can do it if I take enough time, and maybe because
> he plans to give me at least 5 dollars a month off on the monitoring,
> maybe more, and figures it's ok if I do some of the work.
>
> He generally uses the same panel for all his customers so he only has
> to use one brand of software at his end to make changes, but I"m never
> going to ask him to make changes***.  He and his family do favors for
> me all the time, and I try to find things to do for them, but afaic,
> they're still way ahead.  He's overloaded at work (remember my
> previous thread about his having a hard time finding employees.) so my
> question is, even though the best panel I have now is the Moose Z900,
> and the panels he installs are from DSC since he's not going anything
> online, will they cause him any MORE work?
>
> Since I won't be using one of the panels he buys, will that save him
> any money, or are they so cheap it doesn't matter?
>
> If you offerred to put a burglar alarm in your friend's home, and were
> going to charge him less than others for monitoring, would you be
> annoyed if he didn't want to use your panel, because he found another
> "in the trash"?   I get a kick, a lot of satisfaction, out of using
> things I've found in the trash or at yard sales, etc.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
> ***I've had an alarm for years, but the combo keypad/control panel
> burned out (smoke actually came from it when I was pushing the buttons
> on the way out one day.)
>
> **(My first friend runs a ministorage and these were left behind.  I
> think the guy retired and then died, and his daughters cleaned out the
> rented storage room.  They're supposed to remove everything, but I
> guess they left it there for the last sibling to come and take what he
> wanted, and since their father had rented the space for years, my
> friend didn't mind that she had to pay to clean it out (after I took
> what I wanted).  (Hmmm, I see that the older of the two is ADC.  It
> looks almost identical, but the manual says it uses a proprietary
> format in communicating with the central station.  But it's the older
> one anyhow)
>
>
> Remove NOPSAM to email me..

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