Re: laptop serial port

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I only use the small panels 10,15,20's I find them easy to program. Ademco's
support is pretty good and I've never really had one fail either. They're
just a plain vanilla panel that works.

For larger installs or custom homes I use a different product altogether.


"Roland Moore" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|I always wonder why some guys like Ademco (Honeywell) stuff. Do you really
| prefer it for any reasons other than price or ADI availability? I had to
put
| in a Vista 250 FBP for another alarm company and it was really pain to
| program even with Compass. The 4208 SN wasn't too bad but when I got over
| 200 zones the silly thing took forever to respond to an open loop (seven
| seconds). Tech support said "Yeah, over 200 points they don't work so
good".
| The 4204 and the 4204 CF were really goofy. Not even the guys at level 2
| tech support seemed to understand it very well when trying to create
| conditions to trip one area and not another or move the elevator. There
was
| a feature I called "flush the toilet" where you had to power cycle the
panel
| to accept any program changes in the relay output schema. I don't know but
| using combo burg/fire panels like the 250 FBP is not my preference
| especially when trying to find a foreign ground.
| If you know the future when is AlarmNet G coming out? Ademco says AlarmNet
C
| it is going away like all the others in the AMPS network (but they keep
| selling it). I heard they are going to have a trade in program like Uplink
| did.
| I haven't used the 7845i but I have used the Bosch equal (9133-TTLE and
| 4020i) and the Napco equal. It is a lot faster than dial up.
|
| "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:htWdnSnb_-aNyazYnZ2dnUVZ_rGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >
| > "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:4530f1cc$0$3575$815e3792@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >> which future?
| >>
| >
| > One thing I have learned over the years with software development is
never
| > give a date when software will be released.
| >
| > BTW I did some downloads on Vista-15P and Vista-20P's over 7845i and GSM
| > modules, pretty sweet.
| >
| >
|
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