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goncall

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  1. Everyone is replaceable and usually by someone better, because the boss learns from his mistakes and knows what to look for, a good business is ever evolving. That said I have yet to find the perfect employee, most are successfully running there own businesses

    the sad thing is you actually believe that.....

  2. We need to put about 200m of FP 200 in a void under a corridor of a high school. It's a 1960s building and the corridors have voids beneath them for the services mostly pipes for the heating etc. The void is about 1m deep and 2m wide.

    I was going to P clip all the way but then thaught it would be a lot quicker to mount some small tray on the wall and steel tie to this as we will need to put another loop in at some point in the future.

    I know tray will cost more but should go in a lot quicker.

    Anyone got any better ideas?

    tray for me,more so if your gonna use it in the future,dont forget the "for fire alarm cables only,all other cables will be removed " stickers every 2 meters to stop the tray hoppers

  3. default yes or code default. Not for free, but if they want to leave then then do

    id rather default the lot but we dont just code

    I was talking takeovers,you say you default panel and reprog,fine if a 2 bed semi but a large commercial with no paperwork you've lost 3yrs maintenance money just putting it back to the way it was

  4. can I borrow this?

    we were asked to default an engineer code this week..

    on a gardtec 595.. panel was unlocked....

    new company couldn't default it.. we lost the maintenance because they were cheaper...

    thats the correct way to do it,it could be a 2 zone panel or it could be a 200 zone panel,its not about the ability to crash and reprog or the cost

  5. They are a bit tight, I suppose if you own a house that cost more than a lottery win to run each year spending £20k replacing the alarm in one hit could be considered as grudge expense.  Changing it over at £1k a time suits me.

     

    No

    poor pardon the pun

  6. All my working life and before. I started with my dad at 11 on the install and service side. Continued with it since. Explored something else but heart is in that

    20 yrs my end

    thats makes you 31.you little tinker,showbiz ages have even reached the alarm game :-

  7. Well if you remember I had this issue with a 520 , a line dropping some modules , and only thing I found was the neg problem since then been a while the problem hasn't surfaced

    ah well the one 520 you couldnt fix and dissed a neg didnt fix the cause did it,so was it a phase problem or a supply problem or something else

  8. Look at the 485 protocol it will show it's needed. Plus as above you link negs on cameras. Trust me 485 does not need a common to work. Other stuff does but not the data

    Firmware is irrelevant

    Don't get me wrong its good advice to prevent switching issues, but isn't needed for just data

    I wouldn't as a rule common negs unless switching outputs across expanders. Electrical isolation is preferable imo

    but thats the whole point of rios lims zems etc,might as well wire everything back to the panel if your worried about phase issues

  9. Goncall, I love you to bits but I have had a lot of hassle on this one, My original post was a basic question placed in good faith..and for the most part answered likewise..you may have noticed a few of my posts both yesterday and today regarding this topic, under the circumstances, and for the benefit of the site, it might be better to let this one die a natural death, were I to upload anything at the moment then it throws yet another spanner in the works..Hope.. I know.. you understand. Thanks.

    just take a picture post it up..sorted its not hard,otherwise people just think your talking ****....

  10. "...I broke my own rule a few months back and bought a roll of unbranded twelve core on ebay. Never used it, thought it might be OK as a spare and put it away. Had a glance at it recently, it's so thin, smaller than four core and stripping is a nightmare. I asked around and one chap said that the chinese had bought up all the copper, he said ".. but not to worry..there's no voltage loss.." but that's just it..I am worried !! So what's the truth of the matter, is all the branded cable as thin as that..I haven't bought any for ages..any good reccomendations welcome.."

    Here is the original post and the questions are:-

    Have the chinese bought up all the copper ? Is there a voltage drop ? Are all branded cables as thin ? Any recommendations ?

    Which of these did you answer.

    all of them,thats why your contacts are latching

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