Increasing news reports of criminals using WiFi scramblers and cutting power to alarms
I know alarms have backup batteries but if AC power is cut, is central monitoring notified? Guess there is no way to distinguish between power outage and criminal shutting off power. Or is the only way to put a window contact on electric panel somewhere on the inside?
If you do a search sorry for a panel, I’m guessing you would have to do an external switch to make it work?
My panel hinges at the top so you lift it up from bottom. Also the outside edge cover over the edge of the panel so you can not stick anything on it or it will get sheared off when closed
There would not be a way for a system to tell why a power outage occurred.
The system reports AC power loss to ADC after a period of time, depending on programming. (usually 10-30 minutes). This is not an alarm condition, and happens commonly from various causes.
You can set up AC power loss notification in ADC.
The panel does use internal battery backup, and even if someone rushes in, smashes the panel, disables power, battery, and communication, keep in mind ADC implements crash and smash protection to treat events where entry delay or dialer delay kicked on but no follow up signals occur as an alarm.
If that opens upward, the bottom corner would be the best spot. I would keep the sensor off of metal if possible, and place the magnet on the metal door.
Everything is metal in this box and cover (cover is painted white). Is this still doable? Should I modify in some way? Concerned as this whole box is metal.
So I would Attach the sensor to the back of the swinging cover. Then the magnet would go on that thin lip of the non swinging part (grey area) at the bottom ?
I just realized the meter there. Is that outdoors?
If so, no, what I was referencing was using a surface contact on the outside, not under the cover of it. Signaling would likely be very difficult or impossible with a sensor inside there.
If that is an exterior panel, a better solution, and one where you could hide the sensor better inside like you were thinking, would be to use a wired contact sensor, run the wires inside the home to a sensor with a wired input like a DW10.
