datadiffusion

Live in hope eh? I've seen you waiting on the doors at 5am for the Hounslow boot sale... It seemed as if they bought DA and just buried it.

That would have caused a tamper, surely?? I'm guessing this is kit from under Bosch ownership, or was it very late DA designed kit that attracted Bosch in the first place?

We used to have a 1930s brick built substation opposite our house, entrance was down a lane so about once a year getting broken open by yobs, wooden doors with a Yale lock. It was usually us that would call the old bill as the woman whos actual garden it was in was deaf as a doorpost. Once I had a look after it had been busted open, the funny thing was it wasn't obvious where the cable for the service head supplying the light, socket and alarm was coming from! It had a beige single zone Keyswitch alarm, large internal Friedland master bell only, keyswitch looked like a Yale too, makes sense. By the time we moved a bt pole appeared in the lane so I assume it was wired for either remote diagnostics, alarm comms, or both...

I've had a CQR RSD (only Grade 2) go faulty after about 6 years, light use, never driven over, just became unreliable - though always at 3/4AM! Changed it for an Elmdene 3 years back and nothing since.

I use the term figuratively and perjoritively.

Friends don't let friends work in security

Probably best to get a real job and just play with the kit evenings and weekends.

Yep I agree with the above. I used Nano Udl only on a system right at the edge of where we would normally cover, worked great.

Ah right, wise decision, I actually saw a blue triangle (totally inappropriate which is why I noticed) go up on a listed cottage in the posh valleys between WsM and Bath - it looked brand new, I assumed it was an ebay special. Perhaps not then... I forgot about Banham, I don't know why but I assumed they'd been bought out as the last time I was in London I saw their old office, still engraved 'Banham House', was very recently turned into some hipster playground / flats. I guess they just moved... http://www.banham.co.uk/burglar-alarms/ The usual of course, money!

I'd say they are pretty good - it's all much of a muchness now with the biggest driver away from 'other peoples bells on someone elses controls' being wireless boxes that are tied into the system manufacturer. Risco are an example of a manufacturer whos boxes are often still used by those that wouldn't touch their actual alarm kit in years, but these days you still have Pyronix, Texecom, Eaton have just launched a unified Wired and Wireless design exclusive to them, after re-selling the Quartz for years as their wired bell, an in house item for wireless). Even Orisec seem to be doing their own bell. Honeywell are still knocking them out but don't offer any kind of colour range nor screenprinting, they really are targeted for DIY / sparky special / builders jobs. I use the Quartz as it's well made, has been recently updated for LED strobe and other improvements, and even though it was never very popular absolutely no-one else round here uses them any more; certainly in the South West (OCS, Ambit and another facilities co. whose name I forget were the biggest, both have moved on) As far as I know, ADT are the last ones with their own genuinely exclusive bellbox, and even they don't seem to use it on every job any more. Chubb now use the Initial bell, which AFAIK isn't really an exclusive as such, it's just that Aritech won't sell it to anyone else in the UK (but it's widely available elsewhere). A bit like the last ever Chubb triangle box was available in plain red elsewhere in the EU, other than the UK. All the rest - even the mightly Abel, have drifted to Pyronix lightboxes. It's a bland world out there

Elmdene Quartz (plebs) Elmdene Rapier (rich poshos)

Didn't we have someone on here the other day with a drowned Reson8?

Wasn't that the box where they had to send out 'waterproofing kits'?

But I thought polyprop was still available in places like Gardiner though, for use as dummies? Like you say, amazingly odd for 50p - but hey, that could sum up the whole security game

They were still listed in a 1998 Gardiner catalogue - the last time I saw then IIRC. About £4 for a polycarb lid (only) AFAIK. I think by then polyprop wasn't being made anymore, although crappy home catalogues like my gran used to get spammed featured these styles of dummy boxes well into the mid 2000s. They probably bought all the remaining stock...

The likes of Advantage were still pumping them out until late 90s as kits, but like Mr H says even the guys that installed my parents 9800 in 1991 used an Elmdene Prima

You'd be surprised how frequently people sell off old 80s and 90s DIY alarm kits on ebay, where the alarm is Hong Kong tat but the bellbox is a local UK item, often an H box. i.e. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Burglar-Alarm-Kit-/322376893571?hash=item4b0f290483:g:ECsAAOSwj85YQc4V But thats collection only

...should forget security and stick to Grand f**ing Designs

...shouldn't always take their clothes off during the day

http://cpc.farnell.com/lynteck/ly07-009-37/extension-speaker/dp/SR04341?ost=lynteck+speaker&selectedCategoryId=&categoryNameResp=All%2BCategories&searchView=table&iscrfnonsku=false

Following a successful film, TV and rap career, have you now settled down in a quiet corner of the UK to install security devices?

To be honest our two enjoy each others company so much you often wouldn't know they were in the same house until I take the leads off the hooks. Whippets don't really do a lot when they're not being walked! None of the charities that I'm aware of let dogs go to homes where people are out all day.

Depends, that's why we've got two, plus it's actually very rare we are both out all day. I would never leave a dog literally on it's own. In our old house they could even go outside through a dog flap, I'm working on that at the moment as the new place is a bit different. Hard to say if the packaging works as we've got one of those stupid Victorian letterboxes, so the postman just leaves everything in the porch.

Given it as an xmas present - a years worth by overseas relative. They know me too well... You can get a pack for a quid by signing up then cancelling same day. https://www.cureandsimple.com/get-started/

I think we all know that security comes somewhere after the monthly bacon-by-post subscription in terms of necessity for most...