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Odd though wasn't it?

 

"Hello, welcome to Gardiner Technology , we've got Gardtec panels, Novagard bells, Gardtec PIRs, Gardiner Technology 1.5" screws... oh and, I know this won't interest you, we also sell DSC"

So, I've decided to take my work back underground.... to stop it falling into the wrong hands

 

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2 hours ago, datadiffusion said:

"Hello, welcome to Gardiner Technology , we've got Gardtec panels, Novagard bells, Gardtec PIRs, Gardiner Technology 1.5" screws... oh and, I know this won't interest you, we also sell DSC"

 

1/2 dozen Napco DT's & one of those nice internal SAB in the speaker case

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19 hours ago, sixwheeledbeast said:

Why not run your own cables and get a small decent approved company to fit some decent kit? Not saying all companies would all be up for that or that they may want some disclaimer about existing cabling faults, but worth asking.

 

Fitted a few DSC in the past for an integration job, specced by a HA company.... Uses an interface with a serial bus so the HA can see all the devices live, the rest was all done on the HA side. It was just weird foreign tat IMO nothing special.

All these North American panels are just not designed for the UK market, they may work as an alarm but not conform and support will be limited from manufacturers and installers.

 

JW listed most of the usual UK market panels, Galaxy Texecom Eaton etc. Have you actually decided if your DIYing or not because that's the first step really. Talking manufacturers is useless if your still thinking your getting someone in.

 

Everything is already run, I've run all the sensors many months ago when we had a lot of work done, alone with probably 50 Cat6 :D

 

I'm going with the Dimension or Flex, just deciding atm.

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14 hours ago, MrHappy said:

 

Domestic property of a certain risk - proper alarm with proper signalling, jewellery / watches  Faberge eggs or whatever kept in safe of certain type.

 

AMCO, you appear to want something cheap, they appear to have no approval for any of their scope of works.

 

ADT ect..., if going to take days to fit , I assume over a grand just for the man hrs

 

Konnected, again looks cheap & cheerful, 

 

Envisalink -  looks cheap & cheerful...

 

DSC - I believe they've fully withdrawn for the UK for a number of years, I thought they where pants...

 

The out the box solution is texecom ect & control4 ect...

 

Wired alarm in a bigish house couple of grand, control4 much much dearer

 

I be happy to instruct any of my cleint's to do the wiring, however depend on who & what I may want paying to do so ;)

 

I've already run all the cables, no issue there.

 

No I don't want something cheap, I talked with AMCO because they offered the ability to add their equipment alongside one of these boards that I may add on. ADT, no thanks, the rep who came out was a complete *****, excuse my french.

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Again I think the discussion around monitoring company went off topic too, I did some research but AMCO were the only ones who seemed interested in helping, and another firm in Knightsbridge I can't remember their name.

 

If my insurance company is happy with them as a monitoring station I don't see the problem if their services work. Happy to hear feedback but everything online seems positive, more so than ADT.

 

Also happy to hear other suggestions for South East monitoring.

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28 minutes ago, sg86sg said:

Gone for this kit:

 

  • C005-M-E2 - Flex 20 Panel v3.1 Firmwar
  • CP050-00-01 - MK8 Keypad
  • CP037-XX - MK7 Keypad
  • A083-00-01 - Ethernet Module v3 firmware
  • A073-00-01 - RF Portal v3 firmware
  • A081-00-01 - GSM module

What will you use the GSM module for? Cheaper to run the selfmon I reckon through the network card , get more for your money

Flex 20 will be to small for you judging by how you talk flex 50 

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2 hours ago, al-yeti said:

What will you use the GSM module for? Cheaper to run the selfmon I reckon through the network card , get more for your money

Flex 20 will be to small for you judging by how you talk flex 50 

 

I thought the GSM module was for backup for dual path signalling is that not right?

 

Can you expand on what is too small about the flex20? Im not using the door control and only have a 5 bed house so tbought it would be ok as it says for medium size businesses!

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1 hour ago, Logan said:

Can't you use a touchcenter with the flex 20

Stick to the sterling dude

39 minutes ago, sg86sg said:

 

I thought the GSM module was for backup for dual path signalling is that not right?

 

Can you expand on what is too small about the flex20? Im not using the door control and only have a 5 bed house so tbought it would be ok as it says for medium size businesses!

Ok I understand 

 

I forget your going with an arc 

Just now, al-yeti said:

Stick to the sterling dude

Ok I understand 

 

I forget your going with an arc 

For price difference flex 20 for someone who wants to make it do more you will have less hassle having a bigger panel later 

 

I would definitely putting contacts on all the windows in your house aslong as you pay up 

 

Easiest way is wireless in this case 

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39 minutes ago, sg86sg said:

 

I thought the GSM module was for backup for dual path signalling is that not right?

 

Can you expand on what is too small about the flex20? Im not using the door control and only have a 5 bed house so tbought it would be ok as it says for medium size businesses!

No you need a polled solution for dualpath with backup etc

 

However it may do it on the app as the vanderbilt, hkc etc push alarms through to the arc from the app platform not sure on the honeywell have never used it that way.

ie the size yes it will do re size but maybe not for flexability. What your doing most 'medium' sized business wouldnt be doing

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4 hours ago, sg86sg said:

 

Everything is already run, I've run all the sensors many months ago when we had a lot of work done, alone with probably 50 Cat6 :D

 

I'm going with the Dimension or Flex, just deciding atm.

Are you saying you used Cat6 for the alarm cables?

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6 hours ago, MrHappy said:

 

1/2 dozen Napco DT's & one of those nice internal SAB in the speaker case

 

Oh yeah I forgot they didn't do their own dualtechs did they?

 

I've still got two of their 'flat lobby' SABs with the totally translucent case, because you never know!

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So, I've decided to take my work back underground.... to stop it falling into the wrong hands

 

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6 hours ago, sg86sg said:

I talked with AMCO because they....

 

Your on the internet asking a random bunch of spackers how to do your alarm....

 

If the choice was between you & AMCO to do my alarm, I'd choose you ;)

6 hours ago, sg86sg said:

Gone for this kit:

 

  • C005-M-E2 - Flex 20 Panel v3.1 Firmwar
  • CP050-00-01 - MK8 Keypad
  • CP037-XX - MK7 Keypad
  • A083-00-01 - Ethernet Module v3 firmware
  • A073-00-01 - RF Portal v3 firmware
  • A081-00-01 - GSM module

 

mk7 & mk8, strange...  

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2 hours ago, james.wilson said:

No you need a polled solution for dualpath with backup etc

 

However it may do it on the app as the vanderbilt, hkc etc push alarms through to the arc from the app platform not sure on the honeywell have never used it that way.

ie the size yes it will do re size but maybe not for flexability. What your doing most 'medium' sized business wouldnt be doing

I thought it was all DIY connection to an arc somehow 

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2 hours ago, MrHappy said:

 

Your on the internet asking a randy bunch of security specialists how to do your alarm....

 

If the choice was between you & AMCO to monitor my alarm, I'd choose you ;)

 

mk7 & mk8, strange...  

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^^ Whats the private meter for, the dungeon?

 

15 hours ago, MrHappy said:

 

I miss these...

 

R239715-01.jpg

 

 

Yeah I remember those, we very occ. used them on flats where they didn't want anything outside at all, or for big houses outbuildings that sort of thing.

I had one of the matching SAB speakers left over for years, no idea why I kept it, finally used it on a commercial job a while back.

 

I can find a picture of the ones I've got (their buried) but they had the same guts in a very slim case, which was semi-translucent (it had a strobe). Internal use only.

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So, I've decided to take my work back underground.... to stop it falling into the wrong hands

 

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21 hours ago, al-yeti said:

Stick to the sterling dude

Ok I understand 

 

I forget your going with an arc 

For price difference flex 20 for someone who wants to make it do more you will have less hassle having a bigger panel later 

 

I would definitely putting contacts on all the windows in your house aslong as you pay up 

 

Easiest way is wireless in this case 

 

Yea this is why I didn't see a need for a bigger panel though, because I'm getting the wireless addon I can add contact to any windows that I missed.

 

I agree more working space is nice, I'm used to bigger cables but I don't see any additional wires of boards going in here that I've not already got?

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18 hours ago, MrHappy said:

 

Your on the internet asking a random bunch of spackers how to do your alarm....

 

If the choice was between you & AMCO to do my alarm, I'd choose you ;)

 

mk7 & mk8, strange...  

 

mk7 is cheaper and will be in the server cupboard, whereas the mk8 looks nicer and will be in the hall :). That's assuming you're wondering why i'm getting both.

 

Yea I wasn't going to let AMCO touch anything in the house, even run cables. The agreement I made with them was to literally install their speaker setup and into the panel and then monitor it :)

 

 

20 hours ago, PeterJames said:

Are you saying you used Cat6 for the alarm cables?

 

haha no! that's for all the points around the house, APs, CCTV (all PoE etc), TVs etc.

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1 minute ago, james.wilson said:

good feedback, do you like the mk8 then?

 

Well it looks alright, better than the MK7 ?‍♂️

 

I don't see the touchpanel warrants any extra money, looks quite cheap to me comparing it to devices like Nest stats etc. It will literally be used to arm/disarm because everything else can be done from the mobile app anyway

 

And I'm not going for the Prox one because that just seems stupid to me from a security standpoint, like if you drop your keys, loose the fob, or leave your keys by the front door which my wife will prob do all the time!

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