Re: EST Quick Start

["Roland Moore" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Certain versions are so strange to program that you can't really upload the
panel completely unless you wrote the program originally. Some of the
program resides in the panel, part in the heads, it's truly something else.

"Frank Olson" <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Roland Moore wrote:
> > In this state you have to have CEUs for licensing. Everyone is always
trying
> > to get factory training for CEU credit. As for EST it is one of the more
> > difficult FACPs to program. Even the entry level version this guy was
> > talking about isn't that easy. There have been several incidents here
where
> > an untrained person got into an EST system and "programmed it". The
place
> > burned and the system didn't report it. One of them was a school.
>
>
> I know what you mean.  I'll put 'em in and terminate 'em, but I'll leave
> the programming to the local GE guys.  The only exception to that rule
> (in the EST line) is FireShield (which anyone can field program quite
> easily).  Mircom has a new line of panels that look exactly like
> FireShield.  Cheaper too.  We have a few of both in the field so I'll be
> able to relate any problems we encounter as time goes on.  The one
> drawback with the GE lines have already been mentioned.  Replacement
> parts *are* expensive.