Re: SurGard MLR2000

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

"Signalman1968" <signalman1968@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mark Leuck wrote:
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> > Your friend must work for ADT then, those receivers are $100,000 each
>
> Well, was it hard to guess? lol

I'm trying to understand then why you are asking about it?

> > I'm not surprised and it has nothing to do with Tyco, the fact is that
is a
> > receiver with an extremely limited audience.
>
> Yea, I agree with you there, my only issue is that DSC, and now along
> with Tyco, has cut the original staff of SurGard that there isn't many
> of them left that even know any of their receivers.

I only deal with 2 people there, Sasha and Mike Rappos. I dont know anyone
else there

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> >
> > But the SG-III is a platform to improve on, the SG-2000 is a dead-end
road
> > technology-wise. Also the SG-III adds Internet monitoring which can't be
> > done on the 2000
> >
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> Again, another point to agree upon, however there are several issues in
> the works as of right now that we have discovered with the SGIII that
> we have themn working on. The bugs of that receiver have definately not
> been worked out as of yet. But the size and price of the design is more
> industry friendly than what the 2k is for sure. I am still totally
> amazed how a company can produce a rcvr with the quality of workmanship
> of the MLR2, and then put out a unit as of the tin box of the 2K.

SurGard has a habit of releasing amazing promising products then don't
deliver, the 2k was supposed to do a ton of other things except they never
got around to implementing them. It took them a while to get the bugs out of
the 2k


> > 60 line cabinets and DNIS
>
> Great, glad to hear others are using DNIS also, I have ran into others
> that only use it for line to line, therefore limiting quite a few
> features of the 2k.
>
> We use DNIS from in house switch, then each unit is set to multiple
> platforms here.