Wireless Alarm Systems

[PAS]

Hi All

New to this forum but have been in the security business for about 15yrs, mainly house alarms and CCTV.

I want to enquire about Wireless systems, got burnt with a few along time ago and have stayed away from them since.

I would like to try a modern wireless system but would like to hear from installers that are actually fitting them, which ones work and which ones dont.

Thanks

Seamus

[Alarm Protection]

Seamus,

We use Gardtec (Risco) for our wireless systems.

You can have a mixture on the CPX,490X,595 and 800 series panels using the on board wired zones and by adding a wireless receiver to the panel you have your wireless devices. The Bell and keypad need to be wired.

These range from detectors,Shocks,door contacts etc.

Total wireless the Risco Agility panel is not a bad bit of kit when you get used to it.

However the Scantronic I ON range is also a good bit of kit.

[reidy]

We use Texecom's Radioplus/Ricochet stuff for Premier, excellent stuff, not had any problems yet (been fitting it for about 18 months)

[Specialist]

Don't fit wireless anymore, but fitted loads of DSC stuff in the past & never had any real problems with it.

[hpotter]

Scantronic I-on, available from all good wholesalers..

[arfur mo]

think most went through the wonders of wireless, i was dead against it until Risco released theirs, now i have no issues.

battery life is now far longer, 3 - 5 years estimated, i now look at it this way,

faster instal v higher detector price.

Wired is often seen as more reliable, but when looked in more depth, wired can still get issues with damaged cables caused by rodents, carpet fitters etc, so you have more to trace and test on a fault.

chang out a suspect wirless passive, your also in effect changing almost all the 'virtual' wiring to.

for me, the proven reliabilty of modern wireless kit helps balances out the older predjudices i used to hold.

Arur

[Guest Oxo]

Visonic Powermax+ is good kit used a good few hundred without problems, just change the detector batts after 2 yrs not the 3 as stated.Can use a wireless rkp + Fobs

Galaxy wireless is good stuff. Used to have range probs but solved now I believe. ( Stone farm houses/Manor houses are a PITA.Needs a wired rkp

Hear good stuff about the I-oN and the Texe is a bit clever with the ?expander? modules.Needs a wired rkp

[james.wilson]

Honeywell g2. Wireless should be 2 way. With any 1 way wireless system its link crossing your fingers on signal transmission

[arfur mo]

Honeywell g2. Wireless should be 2 way. With any 1 way wireless system its link crossing your fingers on signal transmission

Risco do 2 way PIrs, but think only the Agility works 2 way, not sure about the Wisdom doing so.

think the days of pirs going dead and not being noticed are surely long gone, i'd have thought mist is the same as Risco 1 way, reporting in regularly,

client try's to set outside the 'window' with no 'hello i'm still here' from detector, system just won't have it.

Arfur

[james.wilson]

I accept that en reg has improved wireless missing issues. But any 1 way system just sends a burst of signals and assumes one of them will get through. 2 way wireless means the devices will continue to transmit until the signal is received