I am planning to install new alarm system on my own with a little bit of help from electrician who is not overly familiar with alarms (i.e. good enough for drilling through joists and holding ladder but not much more). Its supposed to be a fairly simple installation on ground floor only with 1 remote keypad, 4 PIRs all on the same floor and finally 1 internal and 1 external sounder. Its also supposed to send SMS on alarming.
What I was going to get is Castle Euro One 28 alarm panel together with digimodem and Bosch blue line PIRs. I am not sure what sort of internal and external sounders to get and would welcome any suggestion on that.
In the first instance, I was planning only to run the cables to location before the plasterer comes in and then install the actual components after plasterer's finished. I was going to keep each each PIR, keypad and sounder on its own separate circuit with one cable to each. Is that good enough? I am specifically thinking about sounders - do they share the circuit in any fashion or ok to be separate? Also, is it good practice to test the alarm cable or double it up in first fix or generally speaking its just going to work 99% of time?
Once the plasterer's done, I was going to install all the kit and setup the alarm.
Have I missed anything obvious? Also, is it possible and good idea to wire up smoke/heat sensors to the house alarm (having everyone know when you burnt the dinner). How do you generally go about doing that?
What I was going to get is Castle Euro One 28 alarm panel together with digimodem and Bosch blue line PIRs. I am not sure what sort of internal and external sounders to get and would welcome any suggestion on that.
In the first instance, I was planning only to run the cables to location before the plasterer comes in and then install the actual components after plasterer's finished. I was going to keep each each PIR, keypad and sounder on its own separate circuit with one cable to each. Is that good enough? I am specifically thinking about sounders - do they share the circuit in any fashion or ok to be separate? Also, is it good practice to test the alarm cable or double it up in first fix or generally speaking its just going to work 99% of time?
Once the plasterer's done, I was going to install all the kit and setup the alarm.
Have I missed anything obvious? Also, is it possible and good idea to wire up smoke/heat sensors to the house alarm (having everyone know when you burnt the dinner). How do you generally go about doing that?