The center is the brain of the alarm security system. It is typically in a range that is off the road as one, cellar attic, closet or place in the office. The motherboard and other components such as radio receivers, backup power supply and zone expanders are in this metal box, which is often blocked. You will have little or no interface with the alarm control. The technician need to program the alarm device to access and wire, common or customStandard.
There are many manufacturers of alarm controls. Each manufacturer produces several models within a particular product line. Alarm companies purchase direct from the manufacturer or, more often buy their products through one of the few available alarm dealer near you. These dealers and manufacturers sell products that consumers are not professionals. You can buy online this machine if you can install and serviceitself.
In general, the controls that are reliable, and most of the programming options are more expensive. I will teach you how to better control, is, as this has a major impact on the ease and ability to set the alarm to fit your lifestyle.
In the interest of making that device is as understandable as possible, I will give that intense and hundreds of differences between these units and I'm going to get into some categoriesit would make more sense.
BASIC
There are many basic units available to alarm dealers. They will know all too often with these units that are unknown to the average consumer the difference in their field and with minimal effort. A skilled installer will install these basic units, because there is little or no knowledge of programming and wiring options.
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What you need most when it comes to these basic units in question is that weProfessionals in relation to many of them as "CROWBAR SYSTEMS." These systems control, keypad, siren, communicator, and backup power supply are all integrated in one unit. If a thief breaks into your house and hear a siren from this unit, which will take the crowbar and destroyed by the proverbial wall. At this point it would no longer a control keypad, siren, emergency power supply or communicator to ask for help. A lot of good that would do for you!
Now that you areEducation in the pitfalls of a stand-alone unit, I doubt that anyone will be able to sell one, or even one for that matter to you.
MEDIA
Most systems that require professional alarm companies install fall into this category. They are reliable, for the most part on how long the model is based on the market. Some of these manufacturers have established with their product lines, trusted for over 20 years. Some of the newer models are good news, but ifThese units are mid-range, I can always be avoided turning my clients in the development of the product testers. These units are composed of any number of separate components that are linked together to make your entire system. In this way, if someone has a siren or the keyboard or another component of the wall the alarm still does not knock, what to do. The panel in this area is usually at least eight areas. Areas that offer the possibility to use all or part of your system, you can also identifywith some accuracy where a violation has occurred. An example of use of part of the system would be the following:
* You must stay at home and want only your perimeter devices and internal devices.
* You are lying in the backyard and want to get in and out the back door so as to bypass the port and movement, protecting the rest of the house.
* You must work for the evening and employees to stay late in order to bypass the work areaArm and in the office, so that no one can enter in this field.
When choosing the technician to avoid the dealers, many makes and models are available in this area has. This could mean buying what is on sale this week from the distributor. The dealer who has used the same model for many years, is more dominant when it comes to installing, programming and maintenance of options for the model.
HIGH END
If you know what you want in an alarm system and realize that thisHigh-end systems can be programmed to do exactly what you want from them for many different scenarios, you give nothing less. All presets can be activated in the control with the touch of a button. It 's my experience that all the many different characteristics of this type of control for easy operation by the end user (that's you!) It is not designed to alarm dealers. They have many parts, so you have complete control over every aspect of your protection is. These units can alsoDistance to be maintained if requested any changes to save time and money.
It takes an additional qualification for the correct installation to find out what your needs are, program the alarm to fit your lifestyle, then you learn how easy it is. I assume that you are like me and want the most qualified plumber can be found at work in your home.
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Find the dealer who places the highest number of plants in your area. Due to the volumethey buy, to pay the high-end equipment for the same price as the rest of the equipment dealers for medium to obtain. You should always be ready to use the high-end devices, without additional cost to you, so go into the other and the quality of facilities, can not bear the cost of maintaining a great team service.
You can call?
BBB Alarm Associations (both local and national), state licensing authority or my favorite, thePromotions or sales managers of your local alarm potential and let them know you know the difference!
Let's look at a typical zone layout of a control panel so you can just as there are wired and programmed works.
ZONE 1 - (Delay) This area is where the doors from which you will most often enter and leave. When you activate the alarm, then the delay of the departure of starting a timer (programmed to your data if you wish), that allows you to time out. After the exit timeexpired, (usually about 30-60 seconds.), or was the alarm in a "concrete" can be.
If you return your home or office and enter through the doors of an entry delay timer starts. This timer is usually about 15-30 seconds. If you do not want to have a long record as a burglar enters through an area of delay has the same amount of time in the first protected area the alarm clock rings. During this period you were on your keyboard and enter the next code for the alarm againby
(In the know!)
The doors are delayed chime feature that can easily turn on or off. Most people choose to leave this function all the time, so you can hear a sound when the alarm is off and someone comes along. The high-end systems can be programmed to have a different tone for each port. If you can spare a zone of late the doors to separate zones instead of having to share with you here, and request that control be programmed for different tones.
ZONE 2 -(INSTANT PERIMETER) This zone is several doors late.
The door to the backyard and the master bedroom deck doors are good examples of this type of door. There is no time delay of these gates and when the alarm is activated and the entry is made, the alarm goes off immediately.
ZONE 3 - (internal) This area is for your motion detector on the main floor. If you enter through a door behind the movement is delayed, so you get the possibility to enable or disable the keyboard to "disarm"Your system. If you do not specify a port first delay and the movement is seen to go immediately to an alarm condition. If staying home or arming your business system, no, you can enter the system remains in mode. This is to bypass your internal or areas in which to move without restriction, while still secured perimeter.
ZONE 4 - (internal) This area is the basement for your move. It 'the same function as the main floorMovement.
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Technical alarm over multiple motion detectors on a single set indoors. I may be that these are separate, so that the flexibility to decide what stays and the need to be bypassed when armed stay mode. It would be useful if you have an unfinished basement with windows, and you do not need to access this area while armed in stay mode. This also gives you locate information on which area has been or will beviolated when the alarm sounds.
ZONE 5 - (INSTANT) This zone is for basement or lower door or window contacts.
ZONE 6 - (INSTANT) This zone is for main floor or window contacts.
ZONE 7 - (INSTANT) This zone is for main floor, glass break detectors.
ZONE 8 - (FIRE) This zone is for smoke and heat detectors. Each area is designated as a section of fire, 24 hours a day, even if the alarm is not armed.
As you can see there are a lot of flexibility in how yourAlarm system is set up for you. In all my years of business I have rarely seen an alarm company, please discuss with the client. In general, a standard of general configuration and tell the customer, this is how it works. Understand that they should be involved in this process will help a system that fits your lifestyle rather than change his lifestyle to your new alarm system.
This is another reason to ensure you get the best for yourbuck when choosing an alarm system.
(INSIDER INFO!)
The alarm installer probably has the ability to lock the code in the program control panel. This code prevents a different control and service companies in the future re-programming the system, making it useless if you do business with the dealer to install. Insist on "NO LOCK CODE" in writing from your dealer perform the installation. In this way, they need to earn your future business success, so that freedom of choiceintact.
Wired vs. wireless systems Hardwired systems are those with the devices directly connected to the controller. Wireless systems send radio signals to a receiver control unit, which processes the signals. There is nothing more reliable than a pair of copper wires to a signal from point A to point B. I send them to recommend a wired system with a wireless system in all cases where it can be installed. However, there are times when the only thing that can be installed inYour place is a wireless or "radio frequency" system.
If there is no basement or a finished product, and there are accessible through the wire floor, you should go wireless installed on the system. In the wireless world, there is a wide choice of quality. The wireless devices are more expensive than wired devices, in general, because each device has a radio transmitter embedded in it or attached to it. If you need to go wireless make sure you are getting the mostRadio quality available. Some use common frequencies like 900 MHz and other frequencies authorized use emit signals. The latter is the better, because there is little to disturb the signal. Some of the things that might interfere with the common frequencies are airplanes, CB radios, cell towers, etc.
A good way is to see the differences in the quality of wireless devices, think of a cordless phone at home. The cheap $ 20.00 unit uses commonFrequencies. It worked, but often static and falls. Sometimes you hear of a neighbor with the same phone frequency. The area you can hike from the base is often less than desirable.
The $ 100.00 unit makes all the difference in the world, and even if you hate to spend the extra money for replacement, you appreciate the quality gained.
I prefer not to have an alarm system at all, before that I would not use it because he always goes off withoutapparent reason. The high-end wireless equipment is extremely reliable and must be willing to spend more to ensure that this purpose must be the quality of the spectrum.
(For Your Consideration!)
If you find an area like a cellar or attic access to run the wires and the coach wants to sell you or give you a wireless system, you should not do business with them. They are more likely to be low quality, use and save cost wireless devicesthe cost of installation. A wireless system takes less time for workers to install because they do not need to take the time or the ability to hide cables have.
Wireless equipment has several other shortcomings that are inevitable, no matter what the quality of the equipment that you will receive:
* The transmitters are large and one on each of your doors is not as aesthetically pleasing as the small hardwired devices.
* The transmitters have batteries in them, to be monitoredFrom time to time amended.
* Many wireless systems will not tell us if a station does not, then you have a false sense of security.
* Wireless devices are frequency and brand specific so they must coincide with the controller manufacturer. You can update the controller in the future so that all unnecessary devices, or do you limit your choices in control features.
Wired devices of any brand, with few exceptions can be connected directly to any brand control. So, if youUpgrading an existing system are wired in a better position to old contacts, motion detectors, smoke detectors, glass break detectors, etc. using
One advantage of wireless devices is that they put the devices, as they are in what would be a situation complicated wiring should be. There are great high quality systems available when a wireless system is a necessity for the installation.
You can also use a wireless receiver wired to any control at all timesTime so that you can transfer one or more devices to connect to it. We call this a hybrid system because it is now both wired and wireless. By reducing the amount of wireless devices in the system reduces costs and increase their reliability. The same rule applies to a wireless system, since you can wire any device you can get a thread.
Noted that even if a wireless system, there are still some things it must be hard-wired, like the power of the keyboard,Transformer, sirens and phone line. This may include the placement of the control panel in a location accessible to all of the wire is limited to those devices. It is worth repeating. There is nothing more reliable than a pair of copper wires to a signal from point A to point B. If you submit a wire would have happened to be cut, which would open the circuit to generate an alarm if the system is on.
Compare apples with apples as you can see here, as with most things in life with a wide selection of quality availableWhen choosing an alarm system and its components. The time required to compare all the characteristics of individual components of your proposed alarm system will always be to your advantage. Consultant alarm switch to the more high-end equipment available when your potential customer is asked to explain the differences.
