Re: Napco GEM3200 Reporting problem

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:
> On Feb 24, 10:23�am, "Bob La Londe" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "mleuck" <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>
>> news:93e94509-83d6-4fac-8edb-bde2a6b60929@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>> On Feb 23, 3:19 pm, "alarman" <nos...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Robert L Bass wrote:
>>>>> Napco used to circulate a newsletter to
>>>>> dealers around the country. Twice they wrote articles on
>>>>> systems I installed and programmed.
>>>> Really? May we see them please?
>>>> --
>>>> js
>>>> Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
>>> He must have scanned them
>> You know, it wouldn't be all that surprising to me. �I had Al e-mail me once
>> to ask about doing a write up for SDM on an outdoor application I did. Since
>> it wasn't pretty I declined, but its not at all unlikely that anybody who
>> has been in the industry and bragged about some of their exploits might not
>> have done a published write up or two. �Some of my own writing (different
>> topic) has been published in local and regional motorcycle and outdoor
>> magazines. �The only reason some people are not published atleast in a small
>> way is because they have not tried.
>>
>> Bob La Londe
>
> It's not hard to do. I've been published a number of times. With
> Napco, I know that there are a number of modifications that have been
> made to Napco documentation, firmware and additions to the Napco
> tech's list of problems/solutions that have been as a result of some
> of the questions and or problems I've come across through the years.
> Also,there are some inherent anomalies in the Napco panels that I've
> come across that they are never going to correct because the
> possibility of it becoming an issue is very remote. Nevertheless, they
> are there and the tech's scratch their collective heads trying to
> figure out how I found them when no one else has. Just my frickin luck
> and my compulsion of having to know everything about what I'm doing
> before I commit to doing it for someone else.
> I could be wrong but I seem to sense that there are not many of "me"
> around any more.

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  It's those who bother to learn "why" that become really good at it.