Homeowner Forum / Security Alarms / August 2006

I was wondering if there was a rule of thumb as to how much power it
used to recharge batteries? Most panels list the maximum amp hours
that can be put on the panel. For example, how much energy does it
take to recharge a 12v 7ah battery?

We're a small company.  Our installers and sales reps act as a team to
complete
projects they do together.  Sometimes they are able to spend time going over
a

How do you set the system time on an ADEMCO V-50P system - I can't
seem to find this documented in the manual.
Thanks

Had a wierd situation at a supermarket .
Power surge came in killed the FBII XL-4 ver 1 thats been there 12 years and
was on a  breaker panel with surge protection built into it to protect the
comp. registers. took out a cable modem nothing else in store touched and

Well, had a different one yesterday.  Its pretty typical to pop the smoke
chamber off an ESL smoke and find it choked with dust after a few years, but
I had a smoke falsing yesterday that surprised me.
I popped the smoke chamber off, and it was pretty darned clean.  I put a new

I am looking for an installer on Long Island  to
upgrade my panel and 2 keyboards. I can supply materials or not. I am
not looking to get into a 5 year deal!! I will either pay you for your
time or you can give me a decent rate on monitoring!

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Anyone got one of these units and worked out how to use the RS232
remote control ?
Cheers

Have a customer with an Optimax Panel.
It is 10 years old, it has just had a service by someone.
Last night the customer tried to set it, and it would not happen it just
kept beeping.

Who's good at drawing a circuit? I have a 24 V DC that I want a zener and a
yellow LED that comes when the voltage drops to a low of 15 Volts.

It's true. Dick Cheney and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) have agreed that the
government should be able to access Americans' conversations and emails
without getting an individualized warrant. But that isn't all they're after.
Under the guise of responding to the NSA spying scandal ...

Guys,
I was about to setup my system with an alarm monitoring company and just to
test I put my cell number in and entered a duress code to test if it worked.
The system worked, called me on my cell and I hung up.  Well, the sucker

See the BBB report here:
http://www.bbbwestflorida.org/commonreport.html?bid=41001663
Bass Home Electronics
4883 Fallcrest Cir

Any Notifier experts here?  I need to know what the right 2 led's on the
power supply are.  The pannel is an AFP 400 and the power supply is on an XP
Transponder.  I think the LED's are + and - ground fault they are LEDs 4 and
5.  I have an intermitant trouble on this transponder ...

Thanks to all of you that have already helped me out on the contact
placement issue I was having.
Wanted your opinions on something.  I have a Keyfob for my system.  We have
a garage that is connected to the home but no door that leads directly from