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Wired a panel backwards in St. Louis last month...
I crossed the zone and alarm outputs on a DSC panel and ended up with a false alarm at 2am. Do you guys prefer labeling every single wire or just memorizing the pinouts?
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the_ryan1mo ago
Read an article last week where a guy said he spends 5 minutes per panel just ziptieing labels on every single wire and it's saved him more than once. That stuck with me after I had to trace through a rat's nest of unlabeled wires last month on a commercial job. Took me twice as long as it should have because I couldn't tell the zone loops from the bell outputs at a glance. Labels are cheap and memory is not when you're standing in a dark basement at 3am troubleshooting a false alarm.
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