Re: CP-01

["Don" <don@xxxxxx>]

"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

burglarized

>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
>