Re: Quality Ademco Engineering

["Tommy" <tommy at leesecurity.net>]

EWW
Take that bragging about you're "gear" to alt.mystuff or whever it is you
talk about that crap.


"Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Your just a elitist bragging about your gear (according to some here).
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> "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> that's one of the many things i like abt dmp...all backwards compatable.
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>> "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> | "Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> | > Mark Leuck wrote:
>> | >
>> | > >As far as I know the XMP wouldn't work with either 6139 or 6160
>> anyway.
>> | And
>> | > >I don't consider that much of an oops when the vast majority of the
>> later
>> | > >stuff will, I've run into maybe 1 XMPT2's in my life.
>> | >
>> | > The 4140XMPT2 was the predecessor of the Vista 50.  There are lots of
>> them
>> | > in the field.  From what J. Barnes says, the 6160 doesn't work with
>> the
>> | > Vista 50 either.  They work fine with a 6139.
>> | >
>> | > The 6139 keypads work fine with the 4140XMP panels.  They also work
>> with
>> | > the Vista 40.  I'm guessing neither one works with the 6160.
>> | >
>> | > I have two complaints here.  First, backward compatibility is a
>> pretty
>> | > obvious thing to do.  But my main bitch is, none of these problems
>> are
>> | > mentioned in the instructions.  You don't find out about them until
>> it's
>> | > time to replace a keypad, and then, oh shit, they gave me a bad
>> keypad.
>> | Oh
>> | > no they idn't, the keypad is fine.
>> |
>> | Yes but how far back do you go? Neither of those keypads will work on
>> say
>> a
>> | 4110XM/DL or a 4140XMP. Your scenario isn't going to happen very often
>> and
>> | while it isn't a good thing when it does it's likely better to replace
>> the
>> | panel anyway
>> |
>> | >
>> | > Make that three complaints.  The fine engineering staff at Ademco
>> still
>> | > hasn't figured out a way to copy a program from an older panel type
>> to a
>> | > newer panel type.  So when you have to replace that bad keypad with a
>> | 6160,
>> | > you find that means you get to replace the panel too, and you have to
>> | > program the new panel from scratch.   None of the program information
>> from
>> | > that XMPT2 can be copied to the new Vista 50P you have to install,
>> even
>> | > though the programs are very similar.
>> |
>> | True but it's not that hard to save and print the old info out and
>> download
>> | it into the new panel
>> |
>> |
>> | > How to waste an entire day on what was supposed to be replacing a bad
>> | > keypad.
>> |
>> | That I can't argue with
>> |
>> |
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