Re: Anyone have RPM/2 Pro software?

[ABLE1 <someone@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/26/2015 1:01 PM, RTS wrote:
> "Jim"  wrote in message
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> On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 7:58:40 AM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 9/21/2015 2:12 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> > <lee.fischman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> I need it to configure a Moose security system that's set for remote
>> >> configuration only, but I've had no luck finding it.
>> >
>> > Wow!  Moose.  There is something I haven't touched in a while.
>> >
>> > Anybody remember when Westing House accelerated the price slide
>> towards > zero
>> > with the $149.95 Z900 installs?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Don't remember that but FWIW Dept. I will be upgrading a Z1100E on
>> Thursday that has been working since about 1990. The communicator
>> finally went south and won't be back.
>>
>> The biggest problem it was installed by an idiot who used "Station Wire"
>> for everything.
>>
>> Remember the RED-GREEN-YELLOW_BLACK stuff??
>>
>> Well he used Yellow/Black for Positive/Negative on Keypads and Motions
>> and Red/Black for Positive/Negative on Smokes all in the same system.
>>
>> By the end of the day on Thursday I am going to be ready for the nearest
>> padded room.
>>
>> Wish me luck!!
>>
>> Les
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>> Back a decade or so ago, there were a lot of telephone trade guys
>> getting into the alarm business around here. Every once in awhile I
>> still run into systems with red and green being used for >positive and
>> negative.
>
>> Talking about old systems .... I was just working on a system with a
>> Napco 900 that I installed in 1987. The damn thing ain't ever gonna
>> die!!!
>
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>
> Les a trick  I started using about 30 years ago  is to put a piece of
> masking tape on your arm  and write the color code in use on it..
>
> As for the station wire being used,    after twisted pair got hard to
> find, station wire was the next best thing available..
>
> Wait till you run into some old bank type wire..    All Black  no
> numbers usually had 10 conductors in a jacket...   Fun stuff...
>
> I worked for an old Bank service guy  way back in the day  and he would
> rotate the loops through the different colors at each splice..
> He claimed it was for added security..   LOL    had to meter each wire
> at each end to be sure what and where it came from....
> Got so bad on some jobs  I made resistor jumpers of different values to
> clip on the ends of sensors so I could find them in the control box..
> Course this was back in the days of 4 and 6 volt systems..   LOL
>
> As for aged equipment  I still have a couple of Moose MPI-50's  in
> service (out in Barns no less)
> And until last year (2014)  I had an Ademco 1004 (6 volt bats no less)
> in service at a hardware store....
>
> RTS


RTS, nice idea on the masking tape on the arm thing.  I use a piece of
paper with a door magnet stuck on the pane door.  Does the same thing.

Either way the brain has to work overtime to keep from releasing the SMOKE.

You and I are dating ourselves with the knowledge of old panels.  'You'
more that me.  Never installed the MPI-50 but I did hear about it.  I
cut my teeth on a thing called a Capricorn, Z1100/e/900/950 and a few
old Vista stuff.

I upgraded a couple of the 6 volt panels and one that had 2 zones.
Keyswitch for arming, Zone 1 for entry door and Zone 2 for everything
else.  Zone 2 consisted of 34 windows and 7 doors.  Finding a bad switch
was a bit of a trick.

Our replacements (when we allow that to happen) would have no clue how
we do/did what we do/did.

Enjoy the memories.

Les