Anyone got an ADT Alarm?
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you can get all sorts of different external boxes/sounders, had a texecom system fitted recently and specified the external box be programmed fully illuminated, looks pretty impressive at night or you could just have a small flashing LED, they all do the same thing just depends whether you want in your face and obvious or something more subtle, have got an ADT box on a commercial unit that was fitted about 5 years ago, will get a picture of it sometime today
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You will find if it is a domestic version then you will have to specify an external bell. Most systems are wireless with an internal siren and alarm monitoring.
If it is wireless you will only get a flashing led as there will be a lack of power to light it up all the time.
If you want the monitoring bit then be prepared to pay. If you want it to ring your mobile or be able to view your camera in the detectors there are cheaper companies.
They will hook you with free installation or even basic kits and then charge a large monthly fee for a set period of time. It used to be 2 or 3yrs.
If it is wireless you will only get a flashing led as there will be a lack of power to light it up all the time.
If you want the monitoring bit then be prepared to pay. If you want it to ring your mobile or be able to view your camera in the detectors there are cheaper companies.
They will hook you with free installation or even basic kits and then charge a large monthly fee for a set period of time. It used to be 2 or 3yrs.
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That would be brilliant, thanks in advance
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Ours is hard wired, lights up at night and has blue LEDs, supplied via regional Alarm Co and monitoring can be included as well as linking to your mobiles.
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personally i stay away from wireless for obvious reasons, cant beat hard wired where ever possible, all good quality grade 2 systems have the ability to be fully monitored with police response if installed correctly, there are a few options on the comms, dual com and also Dualcom Digi Air which i had fitted recently with the Texecom system, monitoring is fairly inexpensive for the year and gives peace of mind, grade 2/3 Honeywell systems have the ability to text alerts to several numbers when programmed and no need to have monitoring if trying to keep costs down
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Agreed. I spent 18yrs running cables and fitting out MOD and bank vaults. It is a dying art now as they just stick up a preprogrammed device and plug it in!
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Police response these days is ring us if you have any problems or there are people still inside.....
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actually quite impressed by the boys in blue here, on the odd occasion on double taps they've turned up pretty quick, as did the fire brigade when i accidentally set of a fire detector connected to the alarm system
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Does the Met respond to anything except a bad comment on twitter?
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apologies for delay, the ADT contract was not renewed a while back , forgot as have a few alarms fitted there, anyway the company that took over maintenance on this unit fitted the usual bell box as shown in the pic and these are your usual good grade boxes that most companies use and just stick their logo on.
The latest i had fitted on a new residential property was a higher grade 3 Texecom Odyssey X illuminated sounder/bell box, would highly recommend these as they are a higher grade and programmable from end station if you want it fully illuminated and/or just flashing LED
What sort of system do ADT now fit?, they used to use Honeywell systems
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A mate of mine has his own security firm and covers all over the UK. Always happy to give advice on anything security wise.
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Matt Hewes is his name.
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They were honeywell/galaxy for wired and pyronix for wireless as I was on the tech committee and tested a lot of them from a standards and compliance point of view.
I imagine the cheapest they can find. They are part of Johnson controls now.
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honeywell galaxy 44 panels are pretty good and they have the built in comunicator to send text alerts, good if you dont want the expense of fully monitored, quite like the texecom premier 48 panels, have 5 of those fitted and never had any issues but that's mainly due to using good grade dual tech pir's as well