Yah really loved climbing an 18 foot ladder to change dry cells in the bell
boxes too.
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|
[email protected] wrote:
| > On the surface that panel seemed like a good idea but the truth of the
| > matter is that a lot of people have trouble locking the deadbolts on
their
| > doors for a variety of reasons. In this case if the door swells up a
tad
| > and you can't get the bolt all the way into the hole your alarm does not
| > arm. Most subs won't even have a clue that their alarm is not working.
| >
| > Once upon a time all the alarm systems had keys and nobody had any codes
to
| > forget.
| >
| > There also weren't any entry/exit delays to cause false alarms or allow
| > burglars to steal everything by entering the front door and leave before
the
| > entry delay expires.
| >
| > Those were the good ole days.
| >
|
| Yep, the good ole days when alarm systems weren't monitored and an
| alarm system bell could ring for a whole week while your customer was
| away on vacation. Boy, that's when they REALLY could build a good
| quality, long lasting bell.
| When batteries went bad and ate the bottom out of the panel.
| When end of line batteries were needed but nobody ever remembered to
| document where they were located.
| When you had to use the nuts off the teminals of the Bright Star #6
| batteries as spacers for the Ademco # 39 mag contacts.
| When if you dropped a mag switch on the floor you had to throw it away.
|
| When you only had to set a door strike to set your alarm at night but
| then had to listen to your bell ring off in the moring when you opened
| up, all the while you were trying to fit the stupid round #303 key in
| the # 3039 lock.
| When you had all twenty seven openings on one zone.
| And twenty of the openings were industrial tilt opening factory windows
| with either foil or bass wood screens.
| There were oxidized bullet contacts and F springs, relays to clean, and
| photo electric beams that used automobile headlight bulbs, but drew so
| much current they couldn't be run from a dry cell during a power
| failure and there was no such thing as a rechargeable standby battery
| anyway.
| There were shunt locks that required a 100 watt soldering iron to heat
| the terminals which STILL wouldn't do anything to help you get all the
| strands of wire into the damn hole anyway, To say nothing of melting
| the insulation on the wire an inch up, only cured by wrapping black
| tape around it. And THEN you rememberd that you didn't put the D ring,
| back spacers and the tube on the wire first and had to unsolder it and
| start over again.
|
| And then of course we took a giant leap in technology and advaced to
| when there were runaway tape dialers that would ring up a $150.00 phone
| bill for your customer, over a long weekend, while the police
| department had a wanted poster made up with your picture on it.
|
| Yep Thems sure was the "good ole days"
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