Re: home security alarm system repair

["Doug" <not@xxxxxxxx>]

I once had an electrical inspector insist that a keypad/annunciator for a
commercial fire alarm be installed at switch height, citing ADA
requirements, the Fire Marshall insisted that it should be at 60" AFF.
The electrical inspector claimed that since it was in effect a switch that
controlled the operation of the fire alarm then it had to go at 48"AFF so
that a person in a wheelchair could access it, the fire guy claimed it was
for Fire Dept use and they didn't have any active fire fighters in
wheelchairs. They went round and round for several minutes, with the end
result that the FIre Dept got their way.

Doug

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"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ranger American installs the keypads at switch height...really dumb when
> you
> install an LCD keypad...client has to get down on their knees to read the
> display. So it aint just the electricians..but yah..electricians should
> stick to pulling romex and leave the skinny wires to us:-)
>
> I'm gonna have to start carrying my camera to job sites again...we should
> start a museum of alarm installation oddities.
>
> Like installing the panel in the back of a tiny hall closet, 7 feet high
> with the damn shelf hitting you in the face...idiots. Turns a half hour
> panel trim into 2 hours of backbreaking cursing.
>
>
> "Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> |
> | Crash Gordon wrote:
> | > Yep. We see this a lot.
> | >
> | > A million dollar home that the contractor let the electrician wire
> because
> | > he was there with Cat5...no keypads, no power, no siren, just doors &
> | > windows...or worse than cat5; everything wired with duece...two
> conductor
> | > keypads and motions.
> | >
> | > Yep any old monkey can do it.
> | >
> | >
> | Yeah, I love it when the keypads are prewired to boxes set at light
> | switch heights and motion detectors are all looking at the windows. Two
> | inch wire coming out of the hinge side of the door jams from a 1/4 inch
> | hole. Wire coming out from behind the outer edge of the molding by the
> | windows   on the bottom only.
> |
> | Then the builder asks,  how'd ya know the electrician did it?
> |
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