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Thanks to test-ok for starting this new category. Because we do low voltage, I know some of us tend to bleed over into the security and CCTV business as well.

A little about me.....I am an electronic technician by trade. I started as a bench technician for a company that did sales and installations. Because they were short handed, I started to get out more from the work bench (in the basement) and did more install work. We did low voltage work, mainly pro audio systems and communications. I loved being out on the road so the next company I worked for was a electronic security company. Their main line was DSC (made in Canada, just like Nortel, so everyone here uses them!) The company was in business for years, so I got quite a bit of experience in the older stuff as well, Contronic, Scantronic, Sureguard, Ademco, Napco, Europlex to name a few. We did any and all low voltage so I went and got Nortel, fiber optics, and satellite training as well. The company was bought out and that was my cue to go. I started my own company and the main part of it now is security, CCTV, access control, phone, and network wiring.

I have learned a great deal from this forum, many have helped me (not to mention $aved me), and I hope that I can return the favors. Hope to chat soon.

Hey, Twisted Pair, KLD here. Used to be involved with all the alarm, access, physical security stuff myself. Default, like the IT guy doing telephones!

I don't know how I've missed this but I found this forum tonight and now I have a place to show just how really dumb I am. :scratch:

Thanks, T-OK.

KLD

Hey guys...you sound like you know quite a bit about the security industry! Have any of you guys come across a DMP panel? Maybe you use them? I just started, and am curious to see what other installers think about the product.

Al

Hello alterego, welcome to the board.

I have never heard of DMP before. I did a quick google, and although I couldn't find their website, I did find a dealers site. To be honest with you it looks alot like a product that was around years ago called "Caddex." The keypads look identical. If you have a web link, please post it so I can have a closer look. I see you are from Canada, who is distributing it here, one of the big three?

Use DMP all the time for security and access control....also use Ademco,Honeywell,MDI,Lenel,and Andover controls

Twisted pair,try www.dmp.com its their website.

I've never heard of DMP either.

Thanks for the link pbresq. I thought I tried that the other day (the most obvious) and it didn't work. Worked tonight though.

Now I do recognize some of the DMP products, I have used their smokes, heats, and sirens/strobes before. They have been around for years but I don't think they have been into control panels that long. I found an "obsolete" heading on their site and those panels look identical to the Moose (Sentrol) panels I have used (and liked!) before. Some of their current panels do look like Caddx, as a matter of fact, I even saw what looked like a Caddx manual in the picture. I wonder if they are somehow affiliated with GE Security (Sentrol and Caddx are). Don't know much about their new panels (who makes them) but their new keypads certainly look kind of sexy. The 4X3 button matrix would certainly throw some people off when we are used to the 3X4 like a telephone (2580 down the centre).

We sell DMP here in Green Bay. We have only been selling security for a couple months now, but DMP has been a good and reliable product for us. A little odd in the setup, coming from the phone world where you want everything running to the MDF, but no outrageous problems installing or faults with the product I have found so far.

Although the one thing that did get me hung up once was when setting the adresses on the LX Bus, my partner set two devices the same address. Took me forever and a day to figure out what the problem was since it didnt give me any errors, just made them both stop working.

we recently started using the product just a few months ago...we went all out;security, access, schedules, auto-arming and disarming. Only to rip it out and replace it with a DSC product. Maybe it was an install doomed from the get-go, or faulty equipment. I was returning to site at least once a week to reset the system after it would freeze up and stop unlocking the doors....what a headache. It's a different product than what I am used to-DSC, Europlex...- and was looking forward to using it in the future, but I don't think we'll be using much more of it.