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 Posted: Thursday May 13th, 2010 04:59 am
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Ingo



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Agreed BUT on a hot summer night I leave a zone or two open when arming to Night Mode. As these zones are announced the PIR catch me moving around and then I cannot, with absolute certainty, determine which zones are open or closed.

As for Day Mode, if I arm to this mode there are obviously a lot of open zones and the purpose of my alarm system is to tell me which zones are open. I don't want to find out that a window, at the very furthest corner of my house, is open and me and my family are watching TV safely thinking we are secure and then we are not. Day Mode is actually worst because there is always movement in the house when arming to this mode.

I hear you say 'manually check all the zones', well no, I have all 64 zones wired up for this exact reason, I don't want to check all 64 zones when I want to arm the system, it must reliably tell me which zones are open.

 You are not able to arm until you close all the zones

Also incorrect, I force arm the system when I know which zones are open and I accept the risk of those open zones, I don't however accept the risk of an unknown open zone.

Ingo

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