Matt Ward

Oh yes! Never seen a remote keypad from a CPA6 before! Thanks

Hi, Once upon a time... http://groups.msn.com/UKSecurityPanels/old...els.msnw?Page=1 I'm just wondering if anyone has tracked down a site which used to be at the above address. Yes, this is a long shot and it's obvious that it no longer exists, but it brought back many memories of old panels that I used to work on, such as Scanny's, CPA6, Sunthorne keyswitch panel, and some other vintage panels that are no longer around (or on the net). For reasons I won't go into, I need a photo of a Sunthorne and CPA6!! There are some photos on TSI, but no-where near as many that were on that site and not the ones I'm after. Wish I saved them!! Many thanks, Matt

The boss at a company that I used to work for didn't want to pay out for ANOTHER washer bottle, as the first one he ordered was wrong - it didn't have a large enough neck for the whale pump. So, he grabbed this out of the kitchen bin (It had FIVE PINTS on the side!!)

Back in the 80s, paralleling PIRs was the only way to minimise false alarms in harsh environments. This was before dual tecs were available. The other option was active beams, but difficult with racking on all walls. I remember a warehouse (Jabro Cash and Carry in Luton if I remember correctly?) with these: http://www.thesecurityinstaller.co.uk/community/gallery/image/317-ademco-652/ (the larger version, and the L/R lens) down all the isles of the Cash and Carry - DOUBLED UP. The checkouts were really funny in this place in the 80s as they didn't have bar codes. Customers with their trolleys piled up used to arrive at the checkouts. There was a guy that used to "read out" all the stock codes to the checkout girl... "fourty-two....zero one two one eight three one Silk Cut"...."thirty one...zero two four six one one zero zero Silk cut ten pack", etc!! Matt (not from Vidionics as title suggests) Evolution ESS

SUNTHORNES!! (made in Aldershot I think) Yes, used to service loads of them in the late 80's and 90's. I remember the BELL TEST button, which was really just a Normally Closed button that removed the power to the external sounder! No bell timer, had to fit a seperate PCB inside panel to time the bell to 20 minutes. The cybertone sounder drilled into the front of the panel which gave you three tones. A continuous whine when you tried to set the system with a zone in fault, a wheeee-wheeee-wheeee for setting and unsetting and a lower faster tone for alarm. You couldn't set any of the zones (with exception of Exit/Entry zone) as "entry route", instead we fitted relays inside the panel which was connected into the E/E sounder to short out the relevant zones during Entry and Exit time. The zone cards, each of which had a Green LED for "ON" (not isolated), Yellow for "Zone in alarm" and Red as a memory after an alarm activation. The really old ones,the isolate button on the front panel used to toggle the Green LED off and on, but it was updated so that the Green LED would come back on when the keyswitch was turned back to off. On the front was a keyswitch and a large piece of darkened plastic where you could see the LEDs of all the zone cards. There was also an expansion board where you could fit loads of zone boards and have up to about 30 zones. There was one of these fitted in Jabro Cash and Carry in Luton (is it still there? this is about 20 years ago now!!) before it was updated to a 9500! Wish I had a photo of the panel! (I don't know why, just memories I guess!) Matt (not from Vidionics anymore like my username says)

Wow! I bought one of these off maplin when I was young (bedroom project!). If I remember, you had to turn the panel back on (with zones omitted) for the PAB/tamper (the PAB and tamper were not 24hours?). Here it is... http://groups.msn.com/UKSecurityPanels/old...amp;PhotoID=445

OK, here is a true story, it's not a security related reply but it does fit nicely into this thread!! Someone told me about this: A mate had a porno video and someone (NOT ME!!) asked him to copy it for him. The problem is he did not have 2 video recorders to do a tape-to-tape, so he set up his camcorder and recorded the TV screen with his camcorder. He then played the camcorder into the VCR to make a second copy. He then (at a later date) gave the copy back to his mate. Upon playback, obviously the quality wasn't perfect as it was a recording of the TV screen. There was also a bit of interference on the side of the picture. When the picture darkened you could see a reflection of someone in the back ground "tugging his bishop!". while the "duplication" was being done!!!! Oops!

Oh yeah, I forgot about the photos! Was installing this alarm in a pub in Reading. It was discusting upstairs in the flat... Plates laying around that had not been moved for days with dried baked beans and other remains on them, mugs of undrunk tea with a thick "skin" on them (if you moved the mug, the contents didn't move!). The whole upstairs was horrible to work in. The carpets.....vaccum cleaner? what vaccum cleaner? Well, in the airing cupboard myself and a mate were moving some bedsheets from the shelves so we could clip a cable in there. From one of the shelves, a couple of photos fell down. One of them was the owner of the pub, no clothes, holding his (there's no easy way of putting this!) large boner! The other photo was the landlady dressed in her large knickers holding out her large stomach!! She wasn't the thinnest of girls! It was discusting! Was difficult to look at either of them after seeing those photos! Glad to get out of there! Matt

Ok, I'm installing an endstation in an airing cupboard and I need to clear some stuff out so I can drill at ease without worrying about dust damaging anything. Normally, I would either ask the customer to empty it, or if it was just a few shirts I would put them on the nearest bed. I agreed the position of the endstation with the customer to be in the airing cupboard. There was a 13amp socket backing onto it that would be perfect to wire the spur into. Problem is, when I opened the airing cupboard there was a whole pile of underwear on the shelf. So, instead of embarrassing the customer who was aware I had already opened the cupboard door and asking her to move them, I pushed them to the back of the cupboard and pretend that I never noticed them. Later the customer went nuts because she was "totally embarressed" and "I should have never been in there to start with!". Uhhh, we discussed this before...? She was a stuckup old cow! Everytime I visited there for a maintenance visit, she purposely used only the bare minimum words (Eg, "hello its in there" then walked away! Funny enough the cupboard was empty this time!). Stuck up cow! Anyone else any "customer's underwear" stories!? Matt