Night Lights, Mercury Vapor VS HPS

[patrick_g]

Dargo, If it works for you then the single most important criterion has been met. In many instances the "Light the Night" approach just shows off the stuff and the lay of the land surrounding it so the "Bad Guys" can see if there is anything they want or want to explore and how everything is situated.

There is some pretty economical motion detection software that can be used to monitor the video and make motion above a threshold act as trigger event to set off an alarm, phone you, send you email, or whatever.

I assume you have battery back up so a power fault doesn't leave you defenseless or a back up generator to carry the lights, cameras, etc. Not to be a nitnoid lint picker but if you have stuff wirth your effort then there are scum who might want to take it and they wouldn't hesitate to put a round through the power transformer or cut a phone line.

The vast majority of monitored alarm systems are useless if the phone linne is cut.

My alarm system has cellphone back up and if the phone line is cut AND an alarm zone is violated the monitor folks immediattely dispatch the cops and calls the other notify numbers without delay. The assumptioin is that a zone violation following a cut phone line is an intrusion.

Pat

 

[schmism]

The assumptioin is that a zone violation following a cut phone line is an intrusion.

Pat

to bad the system cant tell the diff between a CUT phone line and a phone that is dead because a storm is roling through and a tree just crashed through the overhead phone lines down the block taking out the entire neighborhood's phones and power.

 

[Dargo]

Yup, works for me. The real "Dargo" is a trained guard dog from Austria and he is helping work with "Bruno", from Hungry, as to have two trained GSD's on patrol. Also I have a gun range and several class III firearms. Most people around here sort of wonder about me and I'm sure they tell tales about people likely to be shot, bitten, and recorded. A few neighbor's houses have been broken into over the last 10 years or so, but nobody has ever bothered us. In general, a burgler is looking to steal things; not to get shot or attacked. It sounds bad, but one of the things they teach is that you generally only have to make your place less inviting than your neighbors to deter most criminals.

 

[Jomo45]

Couldn't agree more with Patrick's comments!
Too many people are brainwashed in to thinking "light" means security. In reality it just let's the bad guys know where everything is, not to mention light polution... we kinda like to actually see the stars around here!!

 

[patrick_g]

schmism, I don't understand what you are trying to say, ask, or imply. My alarm doesn't act on just a dead phone. As I said before, it takes a dead phone and an alarm zone must be violated.

"Normal ops is if a zone is violated the monitor center calls a list of numbers in priority order to see if everything is OK, like an accidental trip or whatever, they don't automatically send armed response.

The difference with the dead phone followed by a tripped zone is that they assume it is not a coincidence and just sent the troops.

Power going off for whatever reason has no immediate effect on the system function since the system has a long duration battery backup which covers the backup cell phone data link as well. This cell phone is not what you have in your pocket. It is a piece of equipment with an 11 element yagi antenna and is strictly used for data telemetry.

Short version: power outages and or phone outages independently or at the same time do not degrade my alarm systems functionality. Cut phone lines just change the monitoring center's rules of engagement.

If an alarm ceases to function because of cut phone lines it is worthless. If it ceases to function because you lost commercial power it is useless. No one giving the system the least bit of thought would accept reduced functionality due to either lost phone or lost power. Unfortunately many residential alarms are not backed up like mine through a false sense of economy or ignorance. I pay $5/month for the cell phone backup and I feel it is cheap insurance to ensure the rest of the sophisticated system is worth having

Pat

 

[patrick_g]

Dargo II, (Jr?) One of my neighbors had the crazy man with big guns reputation (ex SWAT) but a few months ago he ate his magnum pistol. Most of the community had the good taste and manners to not openly celebrate.

Roger the Class III, I still scratch my head regarding my one Class III (just as regulated as the machine guns) weapon which is an Outback suppressor that fits a number of my .22 pistols and rifles. I wish some of the gun control crazies acting like legislators would get a brain transplant so they could see a small aluminum sound absorbtion chamber is not a machine gun.

Pat