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simon_carr
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16h ago
Rant: I wired 14 door contacts backwards because I trusted the zone list
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mason_reed47
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1d ago
Update: tried a 12 dollar phone line tester on a panel swap and it caught a short the multimeter missed
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henry_ross
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2d ago
Thought keypad codes on shared doors were a gimmick until a customer in Tulsa called me at 11pm
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dereks11
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4d ago
Shoutout to the $15 zone tester that would've saved me a $300 callback in Fresno
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william_price
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5d ago
Unpopular opinion: keypads by the front door are the worst spot in the house
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david703
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5d ago
Took me 4 trips to figure out why a motion sensor kept tripping at 2am in a garage in Reno
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henry_ross
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7d ago
Caught a $900 panel swap that cut our false alarm callbacks from 6 a month to 1
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cole_murphy
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8d ago
A guy in Tampa said skip the resistor on zone 4, and it cost me a whole Saturday
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smith.elliot
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9d ago
Saw a 30 second clip from a fire marshal in Toledo that killed my go to detector placement
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simon_carr
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11d ago
Hot take: I wired every zone with 22/4 off a 500ft spool from the supply house, then a callback made me question it
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amyh12
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12d ago
TIL the installer at a bank job in Reno hid his panel behind a fake return air grille, and I think that's just asking for trouble
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calebross
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14d ago
Hit panel number 2,000 last Friday and sat in the truck for a minute
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walker.julia
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14d ago
My old lead in Cincinnati said to label every zone, and last Tuesday I paid for skipping it
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the_alex
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17d ago
Why I stopped trusting the panel mount in the box after a crawl space job in Boise last month
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cameron_hernandez69
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17d ago
Why does nobody talk about how panel labels fade after 3 or 4 years
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