Re: You always think you've seen it all

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On 7/18/2018 12:32 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
> One of my customers moved to a house that already had an alarm system installed. Vista 20 panel with a zone expander, two keypads and get this...â?¦
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> 10 motion detectors and 9 audio glass break detectors. Two out of three doors have hard wired contacts. The third door has no contact (depends on motion detector for detection). No windows have contacts.
> The motions detectors and the glass break detectors are located in the corner of each room BUT â?¦.. they are mounted side by side on the flat surface of the wall in the corner. In other words, the motion detector only covers half the room and the glass break detectors don't face the windows.
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> But, get this â?¦.. there was an addition put on the house. So the l0th motion detector is mounted in the dirt floor three foot high crawl space under the addition that is separated from the original basement by the old foundation wall that has two basement windows as access. I guess because the crawl space has an outside entrance. however, the two basement windows are covered by a motion detector and a glass break detector located in the finished basement.
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> There are three self contained 30 watt sirens in each of 3 attic vents powered with an auxiliary power supply through a relay and the power supply also powers all the glass breaks and motion detectors. No aux power is drawn from the panel. I'm guessing they did it that way because they had a problem sharing the power with the panel because they didn't know that you had to have a common ground between the supplies and they couldn't get it to work right.
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> There's also a smoke detector in the boiler room.
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> So ��. fix that �.. why doncha!
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> I'm guessing that this is a perfect example of a DIY project.
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> Ya just don't know ����. what ya don't know.
>


Jim,

And you.................
Powered up, pressed * and # entered programming
changed the installer code, Master Code for customer
account number, and phone number, told the customer
to call if he has a problem right??

I hope not!!!

Yes, it was definitely a DIY project for sure.

SCARY!!

Les