Re: ADT email

["Roland Moore" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Since I am not a manufacturing engineer I can only guess. The real
difference in the new and old is RoHS. I think it may be a (general) lack of
experience with RoHS manufacturing techniques and that may need some
improvement.

"tourman" <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Nov 23, 9:25 am, "Roland Moore" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  I should have been more specific. It is the newer PC1616, PC1832,
> PC1864
>  units that seem to have the higher failure rates. I wasn't talking
> about any
>  of the other lines. Because of CP-01 that is all that DSC makes that
> can be
>  legally installed around here. I think we average one or two
> installation
>  per week of those panels for down and dirty small commercial jobs.
> They seem
>  to have a high out of box failure and/or failure within a few weeks
> after
>  installation. Keypads and panels fail at about the same rate. Other
> dealers
>  I talk to report similar problems on those units.
>
> RHC: Now THAT is useful to know. I don't actually install any DSC
> panels, just Paradox. However, I do take over loads DSC. I have yet to
> takeover any of these newer panels though, so this is definately
> something to watch for. Thanks !
>
> I wonder what they are doing differently with the new line of panels
> that they were not doing before. It seems this loss of quality control
> must come from something they are doing differently. Made in China
> maybe ??