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RE: How to Join Alarm Cables



Regards moving the panel, I was thinking 50way soldered D type
connector,
you could place this in a box with a tamper switch should you wish to
prevent access without notice?



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Tim Hawes
Sent: 04 November 2010 15:00
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] How to Join Alarm Cables





I suppose they will argue that if they put in a junction box and join the
cable then they are providing a ne'er-do-well with an opportunity to tap
into the wiring and bypass the system / sensor. That and connectors being a
potential source of unreliability - wires coming out, screws working loose,
etc.

In your specific example, do you have any spare cores in the cable you can
swap the tamper loop over to?

On the subject of "external" junction boxes for alarm cables, I
should
expect that they are included as part of the tamper loop too (like the
casing of the alarm panel itself is tamper-protected). Otherwise the
same ne'er-do-well has free access to *all* of your alarm wiring without
needing the engineer code to disarm and do maintenance.

I'm not an alarm installer, these are just my thoughts :-)

Cheers,

Tim.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Kevin Hawkins
<yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxx <mailto:yahoogroupskh%40googlemail.com>
>wrote:

> I have a similar issue in that I have an existing cable that just
> occasionally gives an open circuit tamper fault when we walk over a
> certain floor area where the cable is metal stapled to the floor. It's
> a professionally maintained alarm and they have point blank refused to
> 'join' the cable and instead want to re-run a new length. I also want
> to relocate the panel by about 1m onto a wall instead of the wood
> partition it is currently mounted on , (so we can remove the
> partition), again they won't consider extending the cables and there
> would be a lot of cables to re-run.
>
> I don't know if this is a general practice that NACOSS or whatever
they
> are now called insist on .. or if it's just a 'more money please' ploy
> .. anyone know ? Regardless Jon I'm interested to see what your
> research turns up, and if it's officially acceptable - even better.
>
> K

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