Homeowner Forum / Security Alarms / May 2008

Have a customer has all vista  computers at his new office and is looking
for a DVR that has its viewing and control software that's vista compatible.
as much as i hate vista which it should be called Vista/me any one have any
suggestions

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bASS inlaws found in brazil

When performing PM services, how you you guys load test sealed lead acid
batteries?
I'm seeing two schools of thought around here:
Some say to disconnect the AC from the panel and let it sit for one

Anybody making a nice flush mount alarm keypad these days?

If a monitoring company says they support uplink for a fee, does this
imply they are supplying the network/line that uplink needs to place
the call?
How does this work? Uplink is hardware. who supplies the network?

Does anyone deal with this addressable fire system? Why does a module
cause multiple troubles on the panel, and even false fire alarms
indicating a totally seperate module?  Help!

You already have one of the most expensive contacts on the market.  Fire
some high price exec already and spend his salary on some decent bags.  I'm
getting really tired of picking your contacts up off the floor when the
bottom falls out of the bag.  I can gaurantee this is costing ...

I always make sure I send out all the customer Christmas cards out by
the first of each December.
Most of the late paying stragglers feel guilty and by the middle of
the next week their checks are usually in the mailbox.

Ok, its been a LONG time since I did anything on my panel....
It is a single partition, Vista 20P with a 5800L receiver and lots of
smokes....
I just getting around to putting in the X10 transformer.... that's not the

New Simon 3 all with fresh batteries.
I disarm the alarm with neither the doors&windows or Motion Sensors
on. Yet the motion sensor causes the alarm to trip. What's up with
that? I've had to take the battery out of the motion Sensor to stop

i misplaced bookmark for the alarm company up north east which has a small
collection of memorabilia online
any one remember it.

And here I thought they forgot all about me.
Happy Holidays!
Jim Rojas
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I have a customer who has a Digikey automation system in his self storage
facility which does doors gates etc and he does not like its performance is
there any other systems anyone is familiar with they like better.PTI etc

Was looking at Axis 207W camera - I see there others but they do not
have such great reviews or may not be in my price range <$400. Do not
care if color or BW.
A few questions, see *. Thanks in advance

"Local-programming lockout", sometimes referred to as a "computer
virus", is a programming option available to dealer-installers found in
several brands of security alarm systems (including Ademco, FBI, First
Alert, Honeywell, Napco, and others) and which can be used to prevent