Re: Some installers should not be working on advanced panels

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 18, 5:24=A0pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mar 18, 4:01=A0pm, nick markowitz <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > They should put a very big note in Vista 32FB- 128 FB BP etc. As Well
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> > WARNING THIS PANEL IS TO BE INSTALLED AND PROGRAMMED ONLY BY
> > EXPERIENCED INSTALLERS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PROGRAM BY HAND UNLESS YOU
> > KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING OR YOU COULD PUT LIFE AND PROPERTY AT
> > RISK.
> > THIS PANEL HAS EXTENSIVE MENUS AND ADVANCED FUNCTIONS =A0ONLY A
> > QUALIFIED TECH WILL FULLY UNDERSTAND.
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> > IF YOU ARE NOT SURE KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF AND PUT YOUR SCREW DRIVER DOWN
> > AND GET SOME ONE WHO DOES.
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> > Once again I found some fucking idiot =A0installers who tried to instal=
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> > addressable smokes on the 2 wire loop could not get it working so they
> > just turned off zone and left it disabled =A0over year 1/2 ago.
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> > Could not get heat loop working had series and parallel resistors on
> > it. so they disabled it and told no one .
> > had wrong resistors where the hell they came up with 10 k resistors
> > when only 2 k come with panels.
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> > This was a 3 million dollar home and there where no 120 daisy chain
> > smokes in residence.
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> RHC: You think ?? Hey, I see that all the time, regardless of the
> alarm company or anything else. There are far too many incompetent
> installers in this industry, just as there are far too many
> incompetent people in any line of work. Only thing is in our line of
> work, when things don't work, people can actually get hurt (especially
> in the fire alarm industry).
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> Don't let it get to you...just fix the problem and move on....

It does get to me when Iam not installing alarms I work as a fire
investigator  and I have been on some nasty ones lately.