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Old DSC panel finally died, replacement had a learning curve
Swapped out a 20 year old DSC panel for a new wireless system in a condo downtown, but the motion sensors kept false tripping off the neighbor's radiator, until I realized the installer before me mounted them at 5 feet instead of 8, has anyone else dealt with that heat source issue?
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john_murphy1mo ago
Reminds me of a job at a condo tower where the old thermostat wire ran right behind the drywall next to a steam pipe. Every time the heat kicked on, the panel saw just enough voltage bleed to think a zone was faulting. Took me two service calls and a lot of head scratching before I put a meter on it and watched the reading jump when the boiler fired. The fix was a shielded run, but the real lesson was the same as yours: check what the last guy did before you trust the wiring.
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