Re: share account #

["Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are too many variables to give you an accurate answer. The first thing
I can say it is a bad idea for many reasons. The person monitoring the
account typically assumes there is one account number per panel. There may
be more than one account number in a panel but there should not be more than
one panel per account number. Read the monitoring agreement you signed. The
only way to "pull it off" would be to have the DACT (or integrated fire
dialer) programmed to the exact same format as the burg panel and have one
sending signals on the unused zones of the other. The 24 hour test timer is
an issue that might tip off the central station to what you're doing. For
the amount of trouble it takes to cockroach out on a few bucks a month is
not just silly but outright stupid when (commercial) fire is involved.

"SamIam" <nosp@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:HRpTh.1988$vD4.1226@xxxxxxxxx
> Anyone see any reasons why I can't share an account number at an
> installation where there is an existing fire alarm reporting to a central
> station and I have recently added a separate security system. They are
> using separate phone lines.  Why couldn't I have both report to the same
> account number?  If they had to report at the same time one would get a
> busy signal for a minute then be able to report after the 1st one was
> done.  Or is this a bad idea?
> TIA