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HaRuMaN:
Not in AZ and TX...  it's still the Wild West out here.   :D

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: HarumaN on May 12, 2009, 08:52:43 am ---Not in AZ and TX...  it's still the Wild West out here.   :D

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All that means is the intruder will be armed and ready to kill.  That's not much comfort during the event.

HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 12, 2009, 09:19:17 am ---
--- Quote from: HarumaN on May 12, 2009, 08:52:43 am ---Not in AZ and TX...  it's still the Wild West out here.   :D

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All that means is the intruder will be armed and ready to kill.  That's not much comfort during the event.

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True....  where's tommy and his 'friendly' pit bulls when you need them?  ;D

saint:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on May 11, 2009, 08:54:15 pm ---The noise is all you really need, if the alarm doesn't scare them away and you're overpowered or not even home, your neighbors will call the police for you, or on you to complain about the noise.  Either way it'll be more effective than an alarm company didn't do anything when the backup battery in the alarm system start beeping.

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Counterpoints:

1. That's only if you have an outside siren. If you only have an internal sounding siren your neighbors won't know.

2. A monitored alarm system can also call the fire department if you have a fire. That's worth it's weight in gold IMHO.


--- Quote ---Put half the money you were spending on them into your home insurance to cover all the valuables you'll be able to buy with the other half of that money.

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I'll have to go check the numbers, but I get a discount on my home insurance for having a monitored alarm system. The cost of the monitored alarm system isn't very high I believe. Been a long time, I'll have to look again.

saint:
Few more points:

1. An alarm system is a balance of security vs cost. Nothing is fool proof. What you're doing is improving the odds in your favor.

2. If you're building the house, do what we did at the advice of our alarm system installer. Have the phone line enter the house at a buried location via conduit into the house. Unless you know where to dig, you can't cut my phone line from the outside. You can cut it from the pedestal at the street, of course, but again that's fairly suspicious behavior to an observer and I'm improving the odds in my favor.

3. On my alarm system there are two modes (and I believe that's fairly common). Away mode, wherein there is a 20-30 second window to disarm it before it calls in. Home mode, wherein it calls in instantly if it alarms. You set it to home mode when you're shut up for the night.

4. The central brain of our alarm system cannot be reached in the 20-30 seconds disarm window unless you know exactly where it is and are a fast runner. If you have that knowledge I have bigger problems than a random burglar. Not even casual friends know where are system is. I'm not sure any of my friends know where ours is.

5. There are 4 sirens in my house. You're not disabling all of them. If you have an external siren it's going to be mounted up where someone can't easily get to it before it goes off.


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