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  1. so that makes 6 zones, and you say that leds 67&8 are lit when trying to set, what are wired into zones 67&8?
  2. No need to shout were not deaf! Do the detectors light up when you walk in front of them?
  3. Bine ati venit!
  4. Really? I was told that you could only use their cameras with their VMS by Milestone
  5. Its three multi story car parks with cameras on each level of the stairwells and each pay machine etc
  6. Yes but then your stuck with only being able to use avigilon cameras. Milestone is expensive especially when you consider that the likes of Dahua and Hik are free and they are catching up quite quickly with their analytics. The deciding factor between Milestone and cheaper solutions is risk, if anything happened to avigilon you stuck with something you cant expand or repair, the Dahua and Hik are in my opinion high risk if you are going to use them in a MOD site or similar, that only really leaves Milestone unless you have your own solution. I have just quoted Dahua for a 164 camera system, its a low risk site if the Chinese want to log in and watch people driving around a car park thats fine with me, though I will make it quite hard for them to do that in the first place with a VPN
  7. Not sure you would, I think faced with fix an old system for lots of dosh, versus new system for lots of dosh, even the most tightest amongst us will go for the latter
  8. You need to call the installer Gent is closed protocol
  9. Thanks Rich, TBF it may be every two years we buy one, its not me that deals with that I just roughly know what we do. Ill check that we dont buy one every year now though. That said theyre only about £30 from CPC
  10. We purchased a calibration test kit and test our own meters for calibration yearly, and we by a new meter each year with a calibration certificate to test our meters against. The old meters we test for calibration and then use them as spares or replacement for failed meters.
  11. Swap the contact with another one if the fault moves with the contact its faulty
  12. A photo would be useful your description could be just about anything
  13. Its all Greek to me, Welcome to the forum George
  14. Sounds like the service timer is on
  15. Ta ... I got distracted Eastenders was on
  16. What do you have at the detectors?
  17. www.nsi.org.uk and www.ssiab.com these are the inspectorates for the industry. you can search using your postcode on the websites. My advice would be to pick three companies, and then choose the company you feel most with which is not necessarily the cheapest.
  18. Only people that work in this trade go around looking at bell boxes and stuff, nobody else does it not even the burglars
  19. Not yet, they work via a secure cloud. Its not impossible to hack but I am not so certain it would be so easy, you would need to know what alarm panel someone has for starters. With cars you know what brand already.
  20. Why not look at a system that works with an app on your phone, far better than a handheld button system
  21. Those that have complied with the requirements for trade will be upgraded soon, we're just waiting for the results from your stool samples.
  22. I must admit, the first 5 years my life was work, work, work, and I missed a bit of family life. I made up for it with holidays, and I did read my kids a bedtime story most nights though
  23. Nope, but assuming I had a bit of experience of running a business for someone else, I would definitely remortgage and buy another established approved company (from scratch) I think its by far the easiest way to start.
  24. Have you ever had to call out a trades person recently? Most of them are so unreliable its untrue, when you find someone that turns up when he say's he is going to, does the job as he say's he is going to, and charges what he say's he is going to charge, you tend to hang on to him. Personally, although I recognise there is a market for budget I try to steer clear it often costs more than I make out of it, and I end up fighting for every call-out, so much so I do not renew contracts on the customers that dont value the service I provide. We have mostly large domestics and commercial customers most who need an approved co in order to get insurance. We do have many smaller customers too nearly all of them recognise the value of an accredited company. It costs more to run an accredited company, but the benefits for the customer outweighs the cost, many people would rather pay a little more and have the service they would expect. Of course I am not saying that every one man band is unreliable, no more than I am saying that every NSI Gold company is reliable and honest, what I am saying is being accredited affords me to run my business to provide value for my staff and customers
  25. Sorry defaulting information can not be given in the public forums
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