Homeowner Forum / Security Alarms / February 2005

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2 questions:
1) Why does it cost $25-$30 for monthly monitoring when obviously if a
system is used and working properly, it is only contacting the
monitoring center maybe once or twice a year. In 3 years, I have had

Is there any way to exclude a single entry/exit zone from chime triggering
on an Ademco Vista 20PS?  I have a motion sensor that I want to be armed
instant in Night mode and armed with entry delay in Away mode.  So, I've
currently configured it as an entry/exit device, but that ...

New readers who want monitoring have a close look to the contract.
Before you subscribe take some time to read the contract and see if
there are references included to:
- What's the monitoring station guaranteed "alarm transmission time"

NFPA is getting ready to release 730 and 731 to tell us how to properly
protect a premise and if jursdctions approve it it will give ahj another
reason to collect another fee.
of course all the big initial orgs are all for it in another attempt to run

I was hoping someone could help me with changing the exit time after
arming.
We moved home a while ago and have a C&K 236 with no codes or manuals.
After some Googling I managed to default it using 012345 * 0 #

I have a large institutional customer who for years has used Grinnel to do
there sprinkler quarterly testing but grinnel is onthe high side price wise
so they decide to go with a local firm that does fire exstinguishers etc and
now does srinkler inspections.

I am trying to use the DSC DLS-2002 software to connect to a P-832 Panel
using the modem built into by Sony laptop.  I have configured the DLS-2002
software to use the Generic 56K modem.  I can get the panel to answer the
call and hear the modems start their handshake, but the ...

I am currently using a DSC Power64 with a telephone escort
module. I have the ususal RJ45X connected for communication to
the monitoring center. The panel reports correctly and
achieves line seizure, This is apparant as all the phones in

Has anyone used this function on this dialler? It says in the instructions
that the Follow Me number is cancelled each time that the alarm system is
unset.  The local installer  is not familiar with that function. He does not
see how the unseting of the system could reset the Follow ...

What's the monitoring station guaranteed "alarm transmission time" to
the police?
Its "not the reaction time" because hooking off the alarm call or
giving a call to a action advise authorized person "is not" the alarm

I live in Papua New Guinea (near Australia) and it uses 50 HZ (50
cycle) power. I can get a 240 volt alarm transformer and indeed all of
the other parts I need cheaply in-country EXCEPT an alarm panel.
I can get a 6-zone panel of $200 US, but it's a panel that sells in the

I'd like to buy a DSC Power832 panel, but I keep seeing references to
settings in newsgroups (like section 701) I need because of my
situation (living in a foreign country). Unfortunately, some sections
are not documented in the regular manual.

here is the link to the story that 20/20 ran on
friday,http://abcnews.go.com/2020/UnitedNations/story?id=489306&page=1