Re: ademco 20SE and 4286 phone module ring number?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

or get an answering machine instead of vm


"FIRETEK" <firetech(change-the-ch-to-k)@telus.net> wrote in message
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| "Dennis" <dhegland2@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > Thanks for writing but I'm not quite clear.
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| > If I set the field to 3 (or 4), how does the system pick up phone
messages
| > since the actual home phone line does not answer (i.e. the phone company
| > voice mail picks up)?   I assume that the phone module will pick up all
| > calls at 3 or 4 rings  If I set it higher (at 5 or so), the voice
| messaging
| > system (not on the premises) will pick up the call before the phone
module
| > does.
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| > It seems like I need a system similar to the "15" setting where I can
| trick
| > the phone module into picking up early before the voice messaging system
| > picks up.  True?
| >
| > Dennis
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| You're quite right.  I would suggest you put your alarm system on a
separate
| line from your home phone service.
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