Homeowner Forum / Security Alarms / October 2005

Who does bush care for?        THE RICH AND COMATOSE!
Not you
Not Me
    if you are middle class

I just bought a DVR with a 160 gig hard drive and a cheap camera
yesterday.  The picture quality isn't all that great.  It's fuzzy.
According to the manual, its effective pixels is 628*582.  Resolution
is 380 lines.  I want to replace it with something a bit better.  The

I need to put a 24 hour surveilance camera in my store.  I'd like to
see everyone coming in and out of the back entrance.  Our store runs 24
hours a day.  I don't need multiple camera, just one.  It has to
provide clear picture, black and white is fine.  Most importantly, it

Professionals always say that the latest wireless alarm system have
all kind of manufacturer unsupported, unspecified features who avoid
and detect RFI...
Good, two questions arise:

Be a member of "the" wireless alarm community...
Purchase YOUR wireless alarm system and you will have TWO outcomes:
OR the system will fail completely during Radio Frequency
   Interferences (RFI) and you will not be aware of it;

Do you have a receiver who capture the wireless alarm frequencies and
did you pay attention to the numerous transmitters who generate
"permanent" transmissions on those frequencies?
For example (only a very small sample):

NO monitoring is not required just like dyers do as good
the installation job than "so called" pro's.
Too many false alarms have lead police to a point that they lower the
intervention priority of alarm calls.

Regardless the brand, wireless alarm systems ARE unreliable whatever
the "so called low level electrician" pro's attempt to let you
believe.
Its brand independent because radio waves behave alike in all

YOU have a wireless alarm system who has that maintenance pro's
"imaginative" Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) detection circuit?
Wireless Alarm systems are still unreliable DURRING RFI but...
If that famous "undocumented" and "manufacturer unsupported" RFI

Everybody knows that wireless alarm systems are unreliable during
Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) because the transmission path of
signals between sensors and wireless receiver is muzzled by an
external transmitter causing RFI.

I'm looking for some general information & advice,
not solicitations.
I want to get a medical alert device/service
for an elderly relative who lives far from me.

I've just programmed a Caddx NX4 to my CS with Contact ID. All the reports
comes in double... Why is that?! I programm 2 phone numbers, CS phone number
1 and CS phone number 2. At 3# segment1 i programm [2] and at segment 2 i
programm [1] At 9# segment 1 i programm [0] and at ...

I have a ademco vista alarm box (amt100 by securilink not vista 100)
that I have set up with a ademco 6150rf keypad and three keypads and a
timex adt watch. my trouble is that the alarm will set it self for no
reason and of course when we walk up to the keypad to check we set off

 I am trying to help a client with a NAPCO GEM-9600 panel.  We are
trying to add an access control module (ACM1D) only to allow disarming
and arming with prox cards.  Actually two modules, since they have two
areas and need them separately armed.  Currently have 2 keypads by the

Well it's finally programmed.  I ended up defaulting the panel and
programming from the keypad.  It took a few hours, but everything tests
fine.  It's hooked to a CS and everything looks great.  Thank you to
everyone who helped me out with the manuals and advice. The 5530 modem ...