Re: More VOIP/Digital Voice

["Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Really?  And the Caddx (Networx) part
>> number for the keypad with built-in
>> 4-zone expander is???
>
> don't need it with zone doubling.

Pardon me.  I guess I'm not making myself clear.  Both systems offer lots of zone capability.  Both offer multiple partitions.  Both
offer remote expanders.  Napco alone offers a keypad with built-in four zone expander which in many cases is all you need for a
remote partition.  In large, residential applications and many mid-sized commercial jobs, that's all you need for a remote
structure.

I've protected a number of foundries which had been converted into multiple tenant, commercial space.  In several of these we used
the Napco Gemini P9600 control with 8 keypads, one per partition.  One place in particular was especially easy due to its layout.
Stretched along two ~200 foot corridors were a series of office modules.  Each had two doors and one motion detector.  We daisy
chained an 18/2 cable for detector power and another 18/4 for the keypads.  There were 16 units in the building.  Twp Napco P9600
systems protected all of them.  The building owners paid for the installation and each tenant paid $15 a month for monitoring,
including open & close reports.  No one else offered anything close in price or quality yet we made over $2800 a year for the
monitoring.

BTW, this was one of the few places I took over where ADT corporate had done a poor job.  There was a fire alarm system there, an
old one which ADT had taken over.  They were charging an astronomical sum for monitoring and quarterly testing.  Unfortunately,
whoever was supposedly testing it had shunted out numerous devices, including two or three waterflow sensors, most of the valve
tampers, etc.  After a small fire the insurer found the problems and raised waco.  The owners had us replace the panel with a Silent
Knight unit.  We weren't UL listed, but the hardware was and we brought the system up to spec.  I had to contract out the
inspections but we got the monitoring contract anyway.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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