Re: You always think you've seen it all

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim Davis"  wrote in message
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On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 8:49:25 AM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:
> 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?¦
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > There's also a smoke detector in the boiler room.
> >
> > So ��. fix that �.. why doncha!
> >
> > I'm guessing that this is a perfect example of a DIY project.
> >
> > 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

>>> Multiple trips to the attic (80+ degrees outside) to trace which wires
>>> to disconnect from the unused PIR's.


Psssssshaw!  You don't know hot boy.  If I was dealing with such frigid
temps I might still be a wire monkey.