Re: DCS Power 832

["tourman" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad to help ! Please excuse the sarcasm in my past reply. I'm becoming
pretty jaded over the years with people cutting the legs off their
alarm system by not having it properly monitored.

But with the rates and contractual commitments that some of the larger
firms charge, I guess I can't really blame you too much. If you want to
service and warranty it yourself, and you're really being honest about
your abilities to do so and believe you can, you may want to talk to
www.themonitoringcentre.ca. They are as inexpensive as it gets and are
still able to give you professional quality monitoring. But do yourself
a favour and do get it monitored.

Cheers !

RHC

Casual Observer wrote:
> I appreciate you taking the time to explain this to me.
>
> "tourman" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1167857828.742248.190730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Doug answered your question. Go into installer programming mode and
> > turn the dialers off (section 380, 1 light "off").Then the panel won't
> > try to dial out. You may have to power down / power up to clear the
> > trouble, and then re-enter the clock time (as he also said)
> >
> > You can program it to dial your cell phone, but it will give you no
> > useful information (other than a heart attack when a wrong number /
> > quick disconnect makes you think your alarm has triggered.....:))
> >
> > And yes, disabling communications will still allow it to work in "local
> > / useless mode".....
> >
> > RHC
> >
> > Casual Observer wrote:
> >> The trouble light that's lit on the panel indicates that the issue is
> >> "The
> >> panel has failed to communicate with the central station."
> >>
> >> In
> >> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.security.alarms/browse_thread/thread/a93603c60f7d3297/9dd52362ae7c1e4d?lnk=st&q=%22failed+to+communicate+with+the+central+station%22&rnum=3&hl=en#9dd52362ae7c1e4d,
> >> poster "Doug L" who seems to know EVERYTHING about EVERY security system
> >> suggested "Program it as local and then power it down and back up again,
> >> reset the clock and the trouble light should go out".
> >>
> >> My system isn't connected to a central monitoring station - how do I
> >> "program it as a local" so it doesn't continue to try and connect?
> >>
> >> I assume that making it a local will still generate alarms inside the
> >> house,
> >> there just won't be any call to the monitoring facility to alert them of
> >> trouble.  Any way I could program it to call my cell phone instead?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >