Re: the police was dispatched to ... the wrong house

["Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>The panels that have failed were the "Magnum" type and were actually burned
by the strike or the conductive lands on the PCB were "opened".

That was the failure I saw most on those panels. The latter ones would stop
communicating or have a dead or scrambled keypad.

>Admittedly, lightning isn't a major reoccurring problem in my area
though.

It sure can be around here.

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Aug 23, 3:05?pm, "Just Looking" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Almost nothing would survive a direct hit of course. But where there
have
> > been building strikes I say Napco panels suffer a lot of failures, then
DSC,
> > then Honeywell etc. I haven't had enough experience with DMP or many
others
> > to predict what will happen to them. The one that suffers the least
seems to
> > be Radionics/Bosch.
> >
> I've installed Napco 99 to one since the late 70's early 80's and I
> can only think of about 5 panels in all that time that have had a
> definite lightning hit failure. I do ground my panels, however. I
> presume that can make a difference.
>
> The panels that have failed were the "Magnum" type and were actually
> burned by the strike or the conductive lands on the PCB were
> "opened".
>
> And I've yet to have a Gemini panel take a destructive hit. I did
> recently change out a 1000e panel that got destroyed, but the building
> structure took a direct hit and destroyed the telephone system, the
> sewage pump controls and the AC breaker box too.
>
> Admittedly, lightning isn't a major reoccurring problem in my area
> though.
>