Re: Napco system questions

[Frank Olson <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L Bass wrote:

>
> Not many can auto-arm on schedule *if* there has been no activity
> (motion) for xx hours.

I don't think the Napco panels you used "back then" provided "if" and
"then" programming either.  I think you're referring to a Magic Module.

>
>> You're talking about disarming and re-arming a system that only
>> employed contact type devices (no motion or glass break detectors).
>> I'm not sure how you imagine an "out of the box" DSC system couldn't
>> do this.
>
> Some systems didn't include motions and glass breaks.  Others (most
> actually) did.

Once the power to glass breaks and motions is interrupted and the
contacts bypassed, any system that employs them will "degrade" to the
contacts you've provided.


> It can't be done at all with DSC's modules.  They don't offer that level
> of flexibility.

Ahhhh...  but you can wire relays to bypass lots of stuff.


>
>>> Some of our clients asked us to program our systems to do specific
>>> things on the first Friday of a given month.  Others needed things
>>> done on the *last* Wednesday, etc.  Try programming that with DSC.
>>
>> DBD (difficult but doable)...
>
> DSC has no way to know that a given Wednesday is the last in a given
> month. In fact, they don't have an option for the xx Friday either.
>

No...  But then Elk's Magic Module has often provided the means to do
so.  I'm not "up" on Napco that much, but I figure that the panels you
used back then couldn't have done this "out of the box" either.


>
> $100 to Moffitt Cancer Research Center.  Actually, how about we both do
> that and call the whole thing a draw?

OK by me.  I would still like to see if I can make this all work with
DSC's product as a base, though.  I've never backed down from a challenge!