Installalation Tips and Tools

bdolph · 2006-05-17T01:50:52+00:00

Hi Everyone,I am considering an upcoming article on installation tips and tools. If anyone in the group here has any good tips you would like to pass on to the group I will be glad to reference you if it goes to print. Did anyone catch the installation fishing contest at the last ISC West? It was put on by B.E.S. and the Training Dept. Some pretty fierce competition and the winners beat the others by hundredths of a second.BobBob DolphProduct & Training Consultant "Tech Talk" Security Sales & Integration Magazine

May 17, 2006 84 Replies

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julian 20 years ago

Yes I am. But there are restrictions and that's the only modification of the electrial system an TQ'd tech can do. The TQ is a specific BC only certification and is designated an SA restriction under the electical code. I have a electrical contractor's registration certificate and I take out electircal permits online.

Can of worms closed.

Once upon a time alarm techs were not allowed to run phone jacks. The tel co had to come out and install at every location. Nowadays, it seems like EVERYBODY is doing it and not always correctly either.

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julian 20 years ago

C'mon you idiot!

If the wire isn't nicked it could sure put up with being plugged/unplugged a couple of hundred times easily without damage!

I've never heard such bullshit in my life!

Using solid core will eliminate problems, moron. Oh sorry I forgot, you can't strip them without nicking. It's so obvious you have little real-world installation experience.

Julian

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julian 20 years ago

That's why you MAKE them use size strippers. That way, when you strip a 22 awg wire, you DON'T nick it. I got a Mastercraft wire stripper (that's from Canadaian Tire, a well know Canadian hardware store for all you non-Canandians readers) when I first started in the biz as a nwebie and when it wears out, Canadian Tire replaces it free of charge, no questions asked. In fact their lifetime warranty even applies if you damage the tool on purpose! There must be some place in the great big US of A that has a store with a similar warranty on their tools!

And if a tech doesn't know what he's doing, why is he out in the field unsupervised anyway?

Julian

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bdolph 20 years ago

Remember when you had to lease a 'telephone coupler"? Nothing was allowed on Ma Bell's sacred circuits without the large, ugly, and expensive 'telephone coupler". About the size of a bread box - honestly.

BobbyD

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