Optima Xm - Can I Do This?

Back in the days of when I was an engineer, I took over a DIY system because the customers insurance company had said that it had to be maintained by a NACOSS installer. Anyway the customer was quite proud of the system saying that it had never ever false alarmed since he had installed it five years earlier, and he couldnt understand why it needed to be under a contract with a NACOSS co when he had done such a good job. When I opened the panel I discovered why it had never gone off, it still had all the factory links in the zone and tamper terminals along with the circuit cables.

Of course once the links were removed, the system made entry noises and it hadnt done that before so I had to explain the error of his ways

I used to work with a guy who would tell customers with a troublesome circuits he had installed a "high security link" and it would never false alarm again...

I'm not condoning it but it made me laugh