Homeowner Forum / Security Alarms / April 2005

How does one add a wireless X-mitter.  And where can I get the Installer
manual for this system?

Has anyone purchased anything from Lufkin Security Inc. or have any
experience with their monitoring services?
With the purchase of an Ademco Vista 20P system they will include 1 year of
monitoring at $5/pr month. Their prices on the Vista 20P kits seem

Wondering if i need to be concerned with running 2 keypads 6150RF and 6160,
one external siren Ademco 748 on a 20P.
I see from the specs here that the alarm output is shown as 2 amps max.
http://www.ademco.com/pdf/Dv20psRE.pdf

I'm shopping for a home system and have a few questions.
I've been looking at the Ademco Vista 15P. Will this give me the ability to
arm individual zones? I'd like to be able to arm only, say, my basement and
garage at one time and the living areas another time.  

Anyone here want to share how they handle fuel surcharge and or mileage for
service calls???
What rate do you charge and has it changed since the gas went thru the
roof???

Good morning gentlemen,
Does anyone have an ITI wireless interior siren (I think they called it a
WIS) for an SX-V system?  If you have one and you want to part with it, send
me an email at:    bres0441 AT yahoo DOT com.  Thank you very much.

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  Ladies and Gentlemen,
This DSC PC1000 works fine, (surprise)  but it is sharing a DSL
active phone line for monitoring.  I would like to install the DSL
filter into the phone line for the alarm, but it uses the 8 wire RJ-45

Does anyone know how to get the Mace DVR web service to work (on a
DVR-1600 to be specific)? I've tried both windows 2000 and XP machines,
with IE 6 and 5, all security settings to off, yet I still cant get the
activeX script to run. Has anyone successfully gotten this app to work

EOLR Placement Debate
I have been in the alarm industry for about 36 years now and over that time
I have witnessed many innovations.  One of these is the circuit supervision
provided by the end of line resistor.

I'm relatively new to the wonderful world of security systems and would
be interested in comments, opinions, thoughts that you more experienced
folks might have on any benefits or drawbacks with regard to 2-way
voice systems.

I want to install one (maybe more) TV cameras to watch the outside of
my house or the street in front of my house.  There has been a series
of vandalism incidents at my house and some neighbors.   The
requirement is to get a clear picture of an incident, probably at

Is it (generally) recommended to put a smoke alarm in the attic? Is it
generally not recommended ?
Thanks.

I'm trying to write some software on my PC in Visual Basic to control my PTZ
camera,.
Does anyone have any Info on the Pelco-D Protocols?
Or failing that does anyone know any software that will do this 'Out the

OK, it seems to me that with network camera prices being relatively
cheap, installing CCTv into a home is now not as cost prohibitive as
it may have been in the past, so potentially this opens up this market
a whole lot more.