Re: CP-01

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Bob Worthy said:

>Ok, so with that being said, a burglar enters an unfamiliar house or
>business, possibly dark, has a siren blairing and needs to find the alarm
>panel. Which way does he go first? According to RLB's reasoning, the panels
>are installed in easily accessable and obvious locations, hence the dialer
>delay is a dangerous option. Does the perp go upstairs, to the basement, to
>the garage, laundryroom, master bedroom closet, pantry?

I think dialer delays are a really stupid idea.  The only reason CP-01
requires them is that some companies are still not using cancel signals.  A
dialer delay doesn't do anything a cancel signal doesn't do, and the fact
that no signal is transmitted with a dialer delay causes customers to think
their alarm didn't work.  It generates calls for service.  With a cancel
signal, the operator can tell the customer that the alarm did go off, but
wss turned off right away.

Playing "find the control panel" in a strange 10,000 square foot house can
be time-consuming for a service tech, and obviously isn't feasible for a
burglar.  But consider a smaller home, especially one with a self-contained
control panel/keypad/sounder:  the noise leads the burglar right to the
panel.

And here's a true story about a job I took away from another company after
the place got robbed.  Burglars pried open the front door of a computer
store, starting the entry delsy.  They then ran to the back of the store,
up a flight of stairs, and destroyed the Alarmnet radio before the entry
delay expired.  Obviously, they knew exactly where the equipment was. but
that's the point:  sometimes, the bad guys know stuff like that.  Giving
them extra time to work is not a good idea, and it doesn't prevent any
false alarms that couldn't have been prevented with a cancel signal.

- badenov