Homeowner Forum / Security Alarms / September 2005

An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand pulling a male
buffalo with the other. He says to the waiter, "Want coffee."
The waiter says, "Sure chief, coming right up." He gets the Indian a tall
mug of coffee. The Indian drinks the coffee down in one gulp, turns and

Anyone know exactly how many conductors are really being used in Cat 5e for
100 Base T ?

Are these legal for monitoring?    I have a potential customer that
has monitored with pro1 for 7 years.  She tried to cancel and they
told her she would have to wait till next July because her 3 year
contract had self renewed.

The second floor nursing station was an oasis of soft light. Mary pointed
out the ancient Edwards Nurse Call panel and the series of LED''s that
served as the status indicators for the floor's mag locks. All the
indicators glowed "red".

Last October we had a new building built and a FCI 7100 series fire alarm
system installed by a reputable fire alarm contractor.  Over the course of
the year we have had to have the contractor back out here many times.  We
started getting "power errors" , "comm errors" and other ...

I'm trying to find some documentation for some glass break detectors
that are built into the wall of a house I'm buying.  I'm guessing that
these are about 12 years old.  They are manufactured by International
Electronics, Inc., model IEI-552LS, Audio Glass Break Detector.

   I am currently looking to purchase an alarm for my house, I was
wondering if anyone could tell me of any good brands that i could look into.
I live in australia and i am not sure what the good brands are down here, i
will be installiong this alarm myself and i think i want a ...

Does someone manufacturer a connector that will convert BNC to other types
of connectors such as PIN or CAT5 for use with converting security cameras
to other systems.  For example, I currently have cameras that have 5-pin
connectors and the new system requires a BNC connection ...

Having reviewed as much as I could take in from 4 years of posts thanks to
Google -- and -- R.Campbell, excellent web site ... is there any chance that
you experts would consider the GE Simon3 to be a 'real' security system?  In
particular, is there some way they can justify ...

I was told that there are some solutions about video alarm verification
to reduce false alarm.
The camera installed in customer's space sends some image data to monitoring
center

Can this panel be programmed to auto arm/disarm?  If so, can the user
enable/disable it and program the time of day to do it?
TIA

Does anyone have the 5540 software from Silent Knight for the Regency 4720 ?
Thanks
Bill
simard@nycap.rr.com

Is there software available for this panel? I would be interested in
obtaining this software. I now have a few under service contract and as with
alot of takeovers, they come with problems. Let me know at:
Bob4Secur@bellsouth.net

Does anyone have these?, I have to do a service tomorrow and can't find
a manual.
Thanks

I have a Vista 20P with 6170 keypad. It is not connected to a phone
line. It keeps indicating "Comm. Failure" on the keypad. I looked thru
the installation manual but cannot find how to disable the message
reporting. How do I keep it from reporting this message?