Re: Access Control Project with a Twist

[Jim Davis <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 4:37:29 PM UTC-5, ABLE1 wrote:
> On 2/26/2020 2:48 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> > On 2/25/2020 6:55 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
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> >> For this project my first question is going to be: What is your budget=
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> > You know if you donate it then its tax deductible right?
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> Bob, you are such a funny guy!!
> Thanks for the smile.
> First one today!!
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> Les




It must be church week. Had one of my customers, a Baptist Church call and =
tell me they needed a service call. Get this now ---- They have a Napco 800=
 control panel I installed 36 years ago. Visonic motion detectors. Only thi=
ng I've ever been back for is to fix a door contact that had gone bad. Neve=
r any false alarms. Any way, when I get there there's no green light on the=
 keypad. It seems that the keys must have been getting hard to press and th=
ey pushed the keypad printed circuit board back into the wall. I told him t=
hey obviously don't make the system any more and simply due to it's age it'=
s likely better to replace the main panel and keypad with a new rather then=
 putting money into this one which will soon likely fail anyway. I gave him=
 the price and got the typical pained look in return. The pastor said that =
anything over $500.00 had to be approved by the/a committee and the next me=
eting wasn't for a few weeks. I said what if I billed you $400.00 a month u=
ntil it was paid? His face lit up He said he'd never thought of that and we=
 shook on the deal.

They've always been pretty good payers so I'm thinking it'll work out ok. I=
 was surprised that there was no attempt at any haggling. I thinking that m=
y payment idea took him by surprise and he forgot his routine :-D



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