Re: Ademco Vista-15 Install Manual

["R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just returned from six weeks in Florida and three days of driving to get
here, and am now catching up with a gazillion posts that I missed when down
south (for some reason,  I couldn't get into my newsreader.....)

I did have an 832 catch fire and nearly burn a place down. The AC rectifier
fried and overheated. When I got there, there was foul smoke everywhere, and
as soon as I opened the can, the whole mess went up in flames. I do think
this was an isolated incident however, due to a defective lot of units that
were installed on a run of panels a few years back.

R.H.Campbell
Home Security Metal Products
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
www.homemetal.com

"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Robert L Bass" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > I would not recommend stuffing lots of paper inside
>> > an alarm panel...
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>> You don't "stuff" paper inside the alarm panel.  You place it
>> neatly inside the plastic envelop it came in.
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>> > Potential fire hazard...
>>
>> Not a chance.  The panel temperature never come close that
>> required to ignite paper.  If your panels are that hot inside you
>> are doing something terribly wrong.  Then again, perhaps you are.
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> Normally it shouldn't however in the event of a lightning strike and as I
> recall Mr Campbell had one catch fire on its own
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