Resurrecting an old thread here. We still look after quite a bit of iD. Still got several karizma plus panels going strong, we have heaps of spare biscuits and usually replace any dead panels with texecom and an iD expander. Yet to rewire any sites to EOL though, has anyone had to rewire any iD sites to EOL yet? 

Edited November 23, 20178 yr by xpertalarms

10 hours ago, xpertalarms said:

Resurrecting an old thread here. We still look after quite a bit of iD. Still got several karizma plus panels going strong, we have heaps of spare biscuits and usually replace any dead panels with texecom and an iD expander. Yet to rewire any sites to EOL though, has anyone had to rewire any iD sites to EOL yet? 

Nope, went Texe route on them, works really well.

Finding Disco Biscuits is the hard bit ;-)

Dammit, I shouldn't have thrown mine away, been ripping out 5 to 6 old Id systems a month for well over 2 years.

 

Would've been loaded by now.

 

 

1 hour ago, Jms said:

 

 

Would've been loaded by now.

 

 

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 

Why did ID systems stop being installed?

Not fitted one for 12-14 years, But never had any problems installing the old gardtec systems.

 

Grading, if using mask/fault reporting you'd need to hang about 3 busicuts out of each detector 

21 hours ago, xpertalarms said:

Resurrecting an old thread here. We still look after quite a bit of iD. Still got several karizma plus panels going strong, we have heaps of spare biscuits and usually replace any dead panels with texecom and an iD expander. Yet to rewire any sites to EOL though, has anyone had to rewire any iD sites to EOL yet? 

We tend to go texe route and give the customer he choice . If it's an upgrade for say comms, rewire/configure as much h/w  as possible, then add wireless if required 

we go the hkc id route. But it means hardware upgrade. But due to the age of the system usually best anyway

33 minutes ago, james.wilson said:

we go the hkc id route. But it means hardware upgrade. But due to the age of the system usually best anyway

I had trouble with one once , new cable tried different panel , but kept getting coms error on hkc ID , weird , it worked with wireless instead lol

 

Although others worked with ID fine , I think newer stuff isn't as rigid as biscuits, and even using the common leg method on older galaxy boards , forget the model but mostly old ADT systems put well together , limited for upgrading though , not enough cores on each leg 

id was designed for car use, short runs large cable etc. I've run hkc at over 200m leg length with 2 legs in the same 6 core due to 10 device limit

19 minutes ago, james.wilson said:

id was designed for car use, short runs large cable etc. I've run hkc at over 200m leg length with 2 legs in the same 6 core due to 10 device limit

Yeah but your hardcore alarm monkey who swings from alarm cable and all that