Homeowner Forum / Security Alarms / October 2005

I have a kitchen with big casement Anderson's in two areas -- one on
the West wall and one on the North wall.  I understand you need to
"point" a glass break acoustic sensor at the window, correct?  That
means I need two, one pointing North and one pointing West.  I also

I want to rent an appartment by the week and I need to conceive a
pretty neat setup to let people in.
I want to have a keypad on the exterior door connected to an door
access

I do not use glass break detectors very often, and have not for about a
year now.  Need to install about 10 in a new office building (all
ceiling mounted in offices).  In your opinion(s) what brand and model
could you recommend for this job?  Also, I need a good quality audio

Is there such a thing as a good-quality 2-wire dual-tech motion sensor
that can be attached to a zone extention on a napco keypad to avoid
having to run it to the panel (not to mention being out of panel
zones)?

have a  DSC632 Alarm. I have the alpha/num LCD pad (LCD5500z). I do
not have CAT5 as my phone network. Only the older style (4wires REd,
green, yellow, black) 2 line cabling.
I am somewhat familiar with the programing and have the service manual

Firelite MS-5024UD
We have had a couple recurring problems with this system.
It went into alarm once just after installation indicating an alarm with a
single pull station.  The pull station had not been activated and there was

Where can I add a wire to extend the range of a Linier D24 A transmitter?

" 'no no no, i don't pull wire no more,
     i'm tired of my arms being so sore.
no thank you please, the mold makes me sneeze,
     and then it makes it hard to find the door! (with appoligys to ringo

Like a lot of people that pop up in all of a sudden, I was just broken
into last Thursday. They stole my digital camera and my headphones.
Apparently the guy broke into 6 places within a few block radius.
Anyway ... I realize all security is a balance between cost and

In Central & Eastern North Carolina, phone rates have recently gone up.
Many of our customers are 100 miles from our office, which is making
our phone bill rather high due to regular voice calling, and also the
down loading, and/or up loading of changes to the Napco program.  Does

I have a Napco Gemini with three English keypads.  I removed keypad #02
because of construction and will replace it in a few weeks.  Keypad #03
now displays "03 Out Of System".  Is this because you can't have a gap
in sequence numbering?  Is there an easy way to make #03 still work

After scouring the manuals and newsgroups for possible solutions with
no luck, I thought I would post here to see if anyone might have an
idea as to what Im doing wrong.
Im trying to enroll a RF5501-433NA keypad with my DSC 632 (PC1555MX

I may be trying the impossible here.
I have often used cameras using Cat5 and a balan to carry the video and
which also carries the DC for the camera using Power over Ethernet devices.
I now need to drive PTZ (which I know little of at the moment). Since the DC

I have a Paradox Spectra 1728 v2.4 system, I have the programming guide
but cannot for the life of me figure out the options to set this up for
pager dialing on an alarm trip.  Everything else works great...
I have the Installer codes...  Just wondering if anyone knows how to

Keeping in mind that I am an end user with just enough electronics knowledge
to get myself in trouble, can someone explain the basics of how a tamper
contact on a PIR works?   We had to take a DS9370 out of service, and I
noticed that the two tamper contacts had not been wired.    ...