Hi,

I am thinking about replacing my Scantronics 9800 house alarm which I installed in 2000. I have been looking at the Texacom Premier Elite range and was wondering if anyone had any experience of them or generally with Texacom alarms. Are they good quality/reliable?

I was planning on just replacing the control panel and the remote keypads (2), re-using the existing wiring, PIR's, door contacts and smoke sensors.

I quite liked their ability to connect to the local network (LAN) so that everything can be configured via a PC rather than the keypad.

Thanks

Alan

On Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 4:43:18 PM UTC, AlanC wrote:
Hi,

I am thinking about replacing my Scantronics 9800 house alarm which I installed in 2000. I have been looking at the Texacom Premier Elite range and was wondering if anyone had any experience of them or generally with Texacom alarms. Are they good quality/reliable?

I was planning on just replacing the control panel and the remote keypads (2), re-using the existing wiring, PIR's, door contacts and smoke sensors.

I quite liked their ability to connect to the local network (LAN) so that everything can be configured via a PC rather than the keypad.

Thanks

Alan

That should be Texecom :-)

I don't...

....think about Texacom alarms...

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AlanC Wrote in message:
Hi,

I am thinking about replacing my Scantronics 9800 house alarm which I installed in 2000. I have been looking at the Texacom Premier Elite range and was wondering if anyone had any experience of them or generally with Texacom alarms. Are they good quality/reliable?

I was planning on just replacing the control panel and the remote keypads (2), re-using the existing wiring, PIR's, door contacts and smoke sensors.

I quite liked their ability to connect to the local network (LAN) so that everything can be configured via a PC rather than the keypad.

Thanks

Alan


Hi Alan

I don't have the model you are looking at, but the more basic
Excel. Used it to replace an old Pyronix unit.

Like you I re-used existing passives etc. - not generally an issue.

The Texecom unit is good average I would say. Suffered a noisy
transformer which was immediately replaced FOC. Since then it
has been a reliable device with many useful features. E. g. Give
each family member a different access code. This saves button
wear and you can check what time the kids really came
in!

Phil
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AlanC Wrote in message:
Hi,

I am thinking about replacing my Scantronics 9800 house alarm which I
installed in 2000. I have been looking at the Texacom Premier Elite
range and was wondering if anyone had any experience of them or generally
with Texacom alarms. Are they good quality/reliable?

I was planning on just replacing the control panel and the remote keypads
(2), re-using the existing wiring, PIR's, door contacts and smoke
sensors.

I quite liked their ability to connect to the local network (LAN) so that
everything can be configured via a PC rather than the keypad.

I don't have the model you are looking at, but the more basic
Excel. Used it to replace an old Pyronix unit.

Like you I re-used existing passives etc. - not generally an issue.

The Texecom unit is good average I would say. Suffered a noisy
transformer which was immediately replaced FOC. Since then it
has been a reliable device with many useful features. E. g. Give
each family member a different access code. This saves button
wear and you can check what time the kids really came in!

Don't forget who will be picking the nursing home...

On 01/11/2016 16:43, AlanC wrote:
Hi,

I am thinking about replacing my Scantronics 9800 house alarm which I installed in 2000. I have been looking at the Texacom Premier Elite range and was wondering if anyone had any experience of them or generally with Texacom alarms. Are they good quality/reliable?

I was planning on just replacing the control panel and the remote keypads (2), re-using the existing wiring, PIR's, door contacts and smoke sensors.

I quite liked their ability to connect to the local network (LAN) so that everything can be configured via a PC rather than the keypad.

Thanks

Alan


I installed an Elite 24 metal this summer. Upgrade/Replacement of a
previous Karizma system.

The main reason for buying this product was that it uses a wired
connection to my broadband router. This makes it easy to update it and
to check the status using my laptop from where ever I can get access to
the Internet. I also get notifications to my mobile phone and emails if
it ever goes off.

The proximity tags make it easy to set the alarm when you go out and to
cancel it on return.

The hardest part of the installation was using the keypad to set the IP
addresses. After that it was easy.


The previous system used ID biscuits. I now have the EOL resisters.


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On Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 11:57:49 PM UTC, Michael Chare wrote:

The previous system used ID biscuits. I now have the EOL resisters.


I was looking at the EOL resistors in the manual. The benefit seems to be less wiring in that it can use a single pair of wires for alarm and tamper. The instructions seem to imply that I can use a separate pair of wires for alarm and tamper which I was planning on doing as the wiring is already in place (and that's how the current system is setup).

On 02/11/2016 07:42, AlanC wrote:
On Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 11:57:49 PM UTC, Michael Chare wrote:

The previous system used ID biscuits. I now have the EOL resisters.


I was looking at the EOL resistors in the manual. The benefit seems to be less wiring in that it can use a single pair of wires for alarm and tamper. The instructions seem to imply that I can use a separate pair of wires for alarm and tamper which I was planning on doing as the wiring is already in place (and that's how the current system is setup).


Each alarm needs a pair of wires going back to the control panel (or
maybe a keypad). Alarms such as PIRs need power, but that can be
shared. I bought the 8XE Zone expander so that gives me 16 alarm ports
on the control panel. I don't use them all.


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