Re: Dammit.. How to get 2 zones and power from a 4-conductor

["alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nelson Muntz wrote:
> alarman wrote:
>
>> Nelson Muntz wrote:
>>> I know.  But the problem is how to hook up the tampers at the panel
>>> end, since I can not just series all 5 with only one "high" coming
>>> back.  I only have one extra zone.
>>
>> Add a zone expander. The customer wants something extra, shouldn't
>> he pay for it?
>>
>
> Yes.  I thought about an expander and doing it the shortcut way , or
> running new wire for the tamper zone and put them all together on a 24
> hour (almost useless).  Or do it right and run more wire AND add the
> expander.  <sigh>  Me and my big mouth.  We never discussed this
> feature - I added the tampers for him to see if a motion was bad when
> he armed.  But then I had to open my big mouth and tell him about
> scheduling, which is programmed to auto-arm, which led to this cluster
> fuck.  In retrospect I made the error.  I should have anticipated his
> needs and offered it from the beginning.  Shit.

Ah, OK. Well, if you can't get him to pay for the upgrade, just do it right
anyway and chalk it up to experience.

js