Re: pull down the heat detector wheres the wire

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Mar 25, 10:57=EF=BF=BDam, ssokoly <alarmdud...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> alluc...@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Mar 24, 10:48 pm, Moe Szyslak <n...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> alluc...@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >>> On Mar 24, 10:37 pm, "Nick Markowitz Jr." <nick-markow...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> was pulling out an older burg fire system today and when i went to r=
emove
> >>>> some heat detectors which were attached to it found several which ha=
d no
> >>>> wiring to them..
> >>>> looks like the fire alarm experts strike again in Pa.
> >>> Reminds me of when we install dummy cameras among the real ones. How's
> >>> the fire gunna know which heats are real? :)
> >>> Roger W.
> >> Hey man! =A0Where have you been hiding? =A0Still able to lick your
> >> eyebrows?
>
> > No, but once in a while I can just about poke my left eye.
> > Roger W.
>
> It's a wireless heat detector, literally. I had the same thing happen
> years ago in an high class condo complex. Went into the living room just
> away from the kitchen pulled down the smoke detector and found no wires
> hooked to it no wires anywhere. Was able to snake a 4 wire from the
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Many, many years ago, there was a company who would go door to door
residential, to install just fire alarm systems for a very low price.
If the person said yes, they'd start right then and install a local
heat detection fire alarm with a few of the old bi-metal 135 degree
heat sensors, a single zone panel and a bell. Installed in the easiest
places they could get a wire to. But, in those cases where a detector
was needed or the customer asked for it, and they couldn't get a wire
there,  they'd just screw a detector to the ceiling, collect their
cash and leave. They were around for a number of years, but back then
there were no regulations of any sort. It wasn't until they were
gone,  that it began to be discovered, what they'd done. Actually, the
guy died, because I remember that there wasn't any way anyone could
take any action against them.