System Specification - Help Needed !

[james.wilson]

dont think its a speaker output mate. Maybe a programmable switched -ve output

[y-i-out-of-bed]

prem? castle yes has v- switch output move link and copys keypad sounds on to 16ohm sounder

[Guest old-hand]

any wired panel with visonic or scantronic wireless reciver 2-16 zones depending on model needs each one hard wired in though

Not correct.

They do not.

[james.wilson]

as above the visonic has 28 (i think) wireless zones and 2 wired. The wireless zones as their name implies are free of any wires.....

Also the homelink 75 is a little long ion the tooth (cant comment on the panel though as i dont know it) but the ion16 is brand spanking new. Oh and 'free of wires' for detection

[y-i-out-of-bed]

visonic do and scantronic do hard wired reciver units or used to on 433

[james.wilson]

y-i

I think your talking about the stand alone recievers before the advent or wide spread adoption of hybrid (or wireless) panels some years ago?

[y-i-out-of-bed]

yes i think so, thought you could still get those?

[james.wilson]

yes but you might struggle on 433.

Only used for getting no wireless panels (or hybrids etc) to accept the odd wireless device

[muddymickey]

Thanks for all the replies so far - need to read through and digest them, will be back in a bit !

[muddymickey]

OK After a bit of reading round I get the impression that the Texecom kit is well regarded, and is well documented (have downloaded a Texecom Premier 48 Installation Manual elsewhere and it certainly does seem very comprehensive).

A few more questions that have sprung to mind so far:

1) Of the Texecom Premier control panels, which would seem the most suitable ? (Note - in the future, once I've got planning and built my garage, I might like to add this to the alarm system.)

2) Does the Texecom Premier range allow me to dial-in and talk over speakers ? If so - can you only do this when an alarm has been triggered (I acknowledge this may not be an overly useful feature, but could have good comedy value if I could do it at any time to wind up kid(s)??!)

3) I note that some of the Texecom keypads have a speaker output - I presume this is to allow connection of an external speaker, rather than actually having a speaker embedded in the keypad ? If more than one keypad has a speaker attached would they all broadcast at the same time ?

4) What are general thoughts on use of proximity tags ? I can't help but wonder that requiring a code entry is more secure (in case keys with a tag were lost or stolen etc, still wouldn't allow entry)

5) I notice the Texecom Speech Dialler offers the "talkback" feature. Does this have an integral speaker, do I need to connect a dedicated speaker to this unit, or can it talk back via speakers attached to keypad(s) ?

6) Anyone got any experience of using the X10-Com unit ? How configurable is it ?

How about the following for an initial stab at a shopping list:

1 x Texecom Premier 48?? Control Panel

1 x Texecom RadioPlus Intelligent Receiver

8 x Texecom PIR (type TBC)

4 x Texecom RadioPlus Magnetic Contact

1 x Texecom Odyssey 5 115dB bell box

4 x Texecom Premier Remote Keypad LCD Large Character (LCDL)

1 x Texecom Speech Dialler with SMS

1 x Texecom Remote Microphone Unit

1 x Texecom Premier USB-Com

1 x Texecom Premier X10-Com