Homeowner Forum / Security Alarms / July 2007

So you spend a lot of time carefully removing ceiling tiles. You have the
water bottles to spray for keeping down the dust. You never remove more than
two tiles at once. In short, you're spending a lot of extra time just
pulling wire. The instruction say to run CAT 5 for data cable. ...

A customer at a hydrocarbon refinery wants to kick out his current provider.
The existing cameras are at least 6 years old. Most look bad, but that is to
be expected with the age as well as the level of workmanship involved.
However there are signs that the environment there has ...

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I noticed in my telco box that the red/green goes to the alarm panel
first, then the rest of the house is wired off two other wires that
return from the alarm panel.  I am guessing that this is so that the
alarm can isolate the rest of the phones in the house and dial out

This is an incredible system developed by none other than Dr Jon
Cohen, MD (retired) who found a little-known "twist" in how to use the
pay-per-click (PPC) and paid-for targeted advertising programs at
Google? and the other search engines.

We've been using Paradox Spectra and Digiplex panels for years with
very good success.  Feature-rich, reliable, good value, easy to use,
etc.  Well just this week we've learned that their whole panel lineup
has been revamped and the biggest problem is that all newly designed

Hi Gang,
I have a client with a 16 port video surveillance card.  It's old and
poorly labeled and the drive crashed so we don't have the drivers,
just the software.  There are no receipts and the company they bought

Right group to ask?
I'm thinking about oneof these as my Digicom board and software is
making me crazy.

I want to install one outdoor camera so I can see who is at my door or
perhaps loitering at the bottom of my stairs.  I want ot monitor this
activity from my PC one floor above the door.   I have no need to view
this remotely from any pc around the world....

USB storage devices have gained popularity nowadays. However, they are
always host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms and other
kinds of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB disk
into a computer that is infected by viruses, these viruses will enter

I have an older (20 years) home security system in the home I
purchased. It is a Guardware CU-22 with perimeter loop, and pressure
pads under carpet areas. I just replaced the siren drivers board and
got the exterior sirens yelping, but cannot not seem to get the carpet

I am planning on buyine a new Multimeter. Are any of you using the
Fluke 87V,179 or 117? If not which do you use?

I have an older (20 years) home security system in the home I
purchased. It is a Guardaware CU-22 with perimeter loop, and pressure
pads under carpet areas. I just replaced the siren drivers board and
got the exterior sirens yelping, but cannot not seem to get the carpet

Anybody here with hands on experience with System III ? Need some tips with
fine tuning our new toy.
Thank you !!!!!

Seems like the motion detectors in low traffic area or no traffic areas have
to be replaced more often then the ones in active areas. Has anyone else
experienced this?
Dave