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Thoughts On Which Type Of System To Go For
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard-the-Ninth" data-source="post: 394267" data-attributes="member: 23472"><p>You don't want to do that, and for what its worth most panels can have smoke / heat detectors connected to them.</p><p></p><p>The reason you don't want to connect smoke / heat detectors to an intruder alarm is simple - sense of security. You get to thinking you are safe because you have smoke detectors on your intruder alarm so if fire breaks out you will be warned. Warned by what? You will have one maybe even two speakers that will make a low pitch sound that is too low or too quiet to wake you up, where as a stand alone or even interconnected smoke alarm has a higher pitch sounder and every smoke alarm has one so that is more sounders before you start.</p><p></p><p>If you really want to push the boat out you could always opt for a fire alarm...........but yes that really is pushing the boat way out.</p><p></p><p>CCTV and alarms, again, don't do it, seems a good idea but to actually do what? You don't need a PIR to operate a camera since the DVR is recording 24/7 anyway, if one is relying on the other and one fails / develops a fault you loose both. Stick to separate CCTV and alarm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard-the-Ninth, post: 394267, member: 23472"] You don't want to do that, and for what its worth most panels can have smoke / heat detectors connected to them. The reason you don't want to connect smoke / heat detectors to an intruder alarm is simple - sense of security. You get to thinking you are safe because you have smoke detectors on your intruder alarm so if fire breaks out you will be warned. Warned by what? You will have one maybe even two speakers that will make a low pitch sound that is too low or too quiet to wake you up, where as a stand alone or even interconnected smoke alarm has a higher pitch sounder and every smoke alarm has one so that is more sounders before you start. If you really want to push the boat out you could always opt for a fire alarm...........but yes that really is pushing the boat way out. CCTV and alarms, again, don't do it, seems a good idea but to actually do what? You don't need a PIR to operate a camera since the DVR is recording 24/7 anyway, if one is relying on the other and one fails / develops a fault you loose both. Stick to separate CCTV and alarm. [/QUOTE]
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