Alarm Advice

[Guest Mike (UK)]

Hi guys, I've been reading up on what's been said here in the past on wireless systems, and I guess I'm just wondering why they have such a bad name?

I'm an electrical engineer, who can probably install a wired system fairly easily, but surely the hassle factor suggests a wireless system is easier.

Or does the added cost of a NACOSS installed alarm make it all worth while?

With my cynical hat on I can't help but think there's an element of protecting your own interests here from the installers!

Can someone give me some reasons why a £150ish wireless kit is so bad?

Thanks

[Guest Peter James]

Easy you get what you pay for. And a £150.00 wireless system would be an expensive way to fall out with the nieghboors.

I will do my upmost to swerve installing wireless (im not saying the good ones dont work but you get more unexplained problems then you would with a hard wired system)But if I do have to install a wirefree system I pay two or three times £150.00 and im Trade.

Nacoss or NSI as it is known now has several benifits including Police response, and discount from your insurance. (and you have a come back if it goes wrong or fails to operate)

Pete

[Guest IM_Alarms]

Yes they are generally ****, thats why they are sold by the likes of B&Q etc because the pro's don't want them. They are normally the bottom of the barrel stuff that no-one else wants. Cobbled together into a kit. Bear in mind that when a designer comes up with a design for a new wired detector, they just pick the best components to get the detecting done most reliably with an eye on the overall cost. Whereas the designer who designs a wireless detector has to watch how much load it is putting on the battery more than anything else, so detecting becomes a secondary design requirement.............. think about it.