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

["Roland More" <NoSpamroland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I never try to repair anything at the component level, especially when I see
a burnt PCB, relay etc. I've always thought of it as too much liability.
Besides when I have checked out such boards "just for fun" (back in the day)
I found nearly all of the resistor values had changed after a lightning
strike. Once you start to fix what you can see as bad, many times you have
to nearly shotgun the board to get it to work to fix what you can't see. The
safer policy for us is if it is a bad board, it gets replaced, and all zones
are tested as if it were a totally new install.

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Aug 24, 4:46?pm, "Just Looking" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >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.
>>
> I can remember that in at least a couple of cases, I was able to
> solder the lands back on the board with "jumper wires" and the panel
> worked. Told the client what had happened and what I did. They made
> the decison to keep the panel. ( definitely put on paper though :-)
>