Re: Anyone have RPM/2 Pro software?

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 1:01:18 PM UTC-4, RTS wrote:
> "Jim"  wrote in message=20
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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 towar=
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> > > with the $149.95 Z900 installs?
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> > 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=
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> > 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 neares=
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> > padded room.
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> > Wish me luck!!
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> > Les
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> >Back a decade or so ago, there were a lot of telephone trade guys gettin=
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> >into the alarm business around here. Every once in awhile I still run in=
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> >systems with red and green being used for >positive and negative.
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> >Talking about old systems .... I was just working on a system with a Nap=
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> >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=20
> masking tape on your arm  and write the color code in use on it..
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> As for the station wire being used,    after twisted pair got hard to fin=
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> station wire was the next best thing available..
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> Wait till you run into some old bank type wire..    All Black  no numbers=
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> usually had 10 conductors in a jacket...   Fun stuff...
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> I worked for an old Bank service guy  way back in the day  and he would=
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> rotate the loops through the different colors at each splice..
> He claimed it was for added security..   LOL    had to meter each wire at=
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> 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 c=
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> 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
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> As for aged equipment  I still have a couple of Moose MPI-50's  in servic=
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> (out in Barns no less)
> And until last year (2014)  I had an Ademco 1004 (6 volt bats no less) in=
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> service at a hardware store....
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> RTS

A 1004!  Light bulbs and all! That's really cool.=20

There's just no comparing some of those old relay panels to anything today.=
 I've still got a few of them out there working. An old Admeco 100 panel wi=
th a meter and an 89 6 volt power pack. As stand by I'm using an Altronix p=
ower supply set at 6 volts so that I can use the 12 volt standby battery. I=
 left the 89 power pack in .... just for the hell of it. It's being used in=
 a greenhouse and has been installed basically "outside" all of these years=
. Somewhere in the 70's I think. Uses some of the old # 39 magnetic contact=
s and pull traps which have to be burnished every once in a while. But you =
can't get any simpler that that. If it trips it rings an old (rusted) Ademc=
o 1011 bell in a box which the owner can hear from his house. It's like goi=
ng back in a time machine every time I go there ..... which is not too ofte=
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I get reminded and still wonder why the old twisted pair wire had such thic=
k insulation on it compared to todays wire. Is it because the newer wire ha=
s better dielectric strength or is it just cheaper with less insulation?