I stopped counting in binary when I removed the last Napco 800 (I still have the stupid programmer). My point is this is 2006 there's absolutely no reason we should be adding/programming with binary/hex or whatever...its dumb.
IMO a panel should be easy to program fully from the keypad in english (or some semblence of english or alarmlish).
I've never had any real probs with Napco on the ones I have though. Dunno what panel I'd like to eval. since I don't keep up with their stuff. My basic panels are the Vista 10P, 20P for anything bigger I go with another product.
"Jim" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... | | Crash Gordon wrote: | > They were all take overs, so the struggle to program them didn't endear me | > to want to continue using the product. Maybe one day Napco will send me a | > evaluation panel for me to play with :-) | >
| What kind of panel would you be interested in evaluating? I'm sure | they'd be willing to send you something if they were asked. ( I could | ask if you don't want to) | | As you can surmise, the programing is just "different" not actually | difficult. If you you can grasp the concept of counting in binary ( if | you don't know how, it's very simple, once it's explained) then Napco | programing becomes very simple to understand. With a laptop it's no | problem whatsoever. The best thing about Napco is that it gives you a | versatility to do just about anything you'd ever be asked to do by a | client. Obviously, you don't always need to do "everything" but it's a | great feeling of confidence to know that pretty much anything a client | may come up with, you can do it. I've been using it since the 80's. | Pretty rock solid, in my opinion. In recent years they've tried to | simplify the programing, especially in the low end panels ( which I | don't use). It seems to be a tendency in the industry to reduce | programing complexity down to the level of a three year old. In my | opinion, I think that it's an effort to keep up with the downward slide | of competence in what passes for installers nowdays. | | When ever I go to do a service call on an older system for someone, | who's not already my client, the guy before me has usually told them | the system should be replaced. Only because they don't want to "work" | on programing. That's another thing I've noticed too. Since I can | program Napco, there's not a panel out there that I've come across, | that I can't comprehend the programing in a relatively short time. I | think that if someone has only ever experienced programing simply | programed panels, it seems that their comprehension of other panels | programing is never developed. | | Just an observation. |