Recent content by Vycor

Im guessing hes gonna use a Microosft Kinetc (however its spelled) to do it, just my 2 cents... but a sensor like that, maybe a hundred bucks i'd pay. Gotta remember i'd want these in every room and anyhigher would get very expensive.

I ended up figuring it out, thanks anyway. The relay just had NO/NC/C for both positive and negative sides which is what threw me off. But alls good now

So I have a small thing im doing. I have an alarm panel. I want 10 LED lights and 8 strobes to go off if the alarm sounds. The alarm itself is a Vista 20P and it can't handle 5amps. All of my devices when added equal about 5.15 amps. Soo i figured id use an external 12V 5amp power box to do...

Gotcha so its looking for that resistance... and if its not there it senses trouble... but by having it in the panel its always there even if wires cut, because the resistor is at the panel

Makes sense... he wasnt using resistors on anything, made my life easy but with the addition of the smoke alarm now i'll have to put resistors on everything. I normally don't bother putting them at the end of the line, i put them in the panel. If the wire is cut, say on a burg zone, then thats...

LOL thanks, i know what 22/2 wire is and how to wire into the terminals but thanks for the detailed instructions... so i guess for parallel im just plugging in the resistor on the + and - sides of my panel... never realized that actual performs a function... so i guess thats not enough...

Well he has existing smokes, and now an HAI system. We are using a relay module to tie in his existing smokes to the HAI panel (the relay module is for this, it allows us to use the AC smokes with a low voltage system) Im still a bit lost unfort... maybe because i need to set them up as...

I dont really follow it unfortunatly, sorry. Smokes/fire is new for me, ive done burg no probs, but never got involved with smoke... its pretty simple. The basement has a smoke alarm (which is connected to the rest of the house via the interconnect wire). That works fine, one smoke goes off...

So I have an issue... or basically no knowledge of how to do this... I setup an OmniPro II system for a client of mine. He has motion detectors, glass breaks, window sensors, automated lighting, multiple keypads, thermostats and the OmniPro touch screen. Everything works great... and now we're...

Have you thought of using the alarm inputs? I have a few systems in my office.. Basically we have our phone system, which has an intercom. You press the button, it rings the phones, then we hit OPEN on the phone, it opens the door. Basically that closes a circuit on the phone system which is...

Heres what we did in our server room for cheap wire holders. Granted we're holding big bundles of wires so it might not fit your need... but if your bundling a lot of wires like us, it might work great. Just head to your electrical aisle of your home depot and get yourself some conduit and some...

Im late to the game here but i do this stuff for a living... Home Depot is where we buy our boxes usually, if not the distributor. They sell a few They sell the orange in a bag (6 to a bag) then the orange you buy 1 at a time (or in a brown box), and the blue ones of course. I prefer the...

What about something that is a motion detector down low... if it goes off it maybe turns on some type of compressed air shooter? Which will scare the cat away.

LOL, but doesnt a dusk/dawn sensor detect when its dark. If its dark in the lid, it'll be triggered (its closed)... when he takes it off... umm its gonna be dark out still, at least whenever i light fires its dark out... sooo it'll still think (its closed)

Hmm not sure... circular prox sensor... i like the idea, i do but to keep it "idiot proof" is tricky... my thoughts... make the cover ONLY fit on a certain way... maybe a notch or something to force it... what about if someones knocks it off, the wind/dog/kids/landscaper? then your gas valve is...