House Alarm Repair.
Control panel.
This is the
centre of your system. All components are fed from and report back to it. It’s
the most expensive and difficult part to replace. It contains the power supply,
the back-up battery and the P.C.B. (Printed Circuit Board). It may have an
on-board keypad but increasingly now; most panels have a remote keypad, simply
because remote keypads are prettier and less obtrusive. When I started
installing back in the eighties we used big, ugly, metal boxes with key-switches
and one, two or three zones.
We went on
to digital panels.
The
Scantronic 9448, my old favourite. I installed thousands of these in the
nineties, basic but incredibly reliable.
The Texecom
Veritas R8. I’ve installed these since around 1996 and still do. Attractive,
fairly simple to program, functionally brilliant and the most user-friendly
panel I know. Whoever designed them was either an installer or worked closely with
an installer. I love the Veritas!
Some useful links;
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