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Find Peace of Mind From A Monitored Home Alarm by Owen Walcher

A monitored home alarm system can give you the assurance you need for peace of mind.

Have there been burglaries in your neighborhood? Perhaps you've been a victim yourself. The feeling of vulnerability and violation after a burglary is hard to describe to someone who has not been through the experience. It's not just the fact you've lost valuables, but knowing a stranger was in your house where you thought you were safe.

Your thoughts jump immediately to an alarm system. Signs have been going up in yards all over your neighborhood for various companies' monitored home alarms.

What is a Monitored Home Burglar Alarm?

If you have a monitored home alarm installed, when a home intruder enters a protected zone and activates a sensor, an audible alarm will go off. This lets the intruder know he's been noticed. The alarm noise also lets you and your neighbors know there is a problem. But there's more than that. You and your neighbors may not be home to hear the audible alarm, so the sensors also alert the people on duty at the alarm company's 24 hour monitoring center and they swing into action on your behalf. They first call your home to see if you've accidentally tripped the alarm yourself. In the case of a real emergency, they notify the police on your behalf.

Monitored home alarms contain some or all of the following basic components:

* Control Box - The control panel is where all the wiring terminates and it usually has the backup battery in case of power failure.

* Keypad - When you enter or exit the house, or open a window or door, you'll need to activate or deactivate the sensors from the keypad, so an alarm will not go off and the monitoring company won't believe you have a home intruder. There can be additional keypads, for example next to the home owner's bed.

* Sensors - Every window or glass door panel in the house will have a sensor to detect if the glass has been broken.

* Contacts - Every door and window has magnetic contacts installed to alert the system when they are open or closed.

* Siren - When sensors or contacts are activated, a loud audible siren goes off, alerting people nearby of a problem and letting the intruder know he's been detected.

* Motion Detectors - Infrared, microwave, or photoelectric motion detectors alert when there is an intruder. There are special motion detector installations for people with pets.

Other items can be included such as smoke detectors, heat detectors, and carbon monoxide detectors which can be wired to the security panel. The monitored home alarm can then notify the central monitoring station if smoke, heat or carbon monoxide is detected.

Panic Buttons are usually wireless and hand-held; just punching the button will send a message to the central monitoring station for help. Such units are useful for medical alerts as well as notification of other home emergencies.

Closed circuit TV (CCTV) allows monitoring and/or recording inside or outside a home either by the homeowner or by the monitoring center or both. These are familiar to internet "web cam" users.

You want to do something to protect your family and your possessions. It's important to remember there's more to home security than a monitored home alarm, no matter how good it is.

Get the family together and go outside to play the security game: pretend to be a burglar and look at your house, noticing vulnerabilities and invitations. The patio door standing wide open, the flimsy exterior door to the garage with glass in the top, the ladder leaning against the side of the house waiting to give easy access to upstairs unlocked windows.

Spend a little time cleaning up these security risks and retraining yourselves to lock doors and windows even before you start research on a burglar alarm system. There are several good companies out there, take time to check them out and compare before you ask for a dollar quote. You need to know what questions to ask.

Be sure you contact the monitored home alarm company to get a quote. Only after doing your homework on features and company reputation and getting a detailed quote can you make a reasoned decision.

Owen Walcher is a freelance writer, writing home security articles such as Monitored Home Security Alarms You can find more home security alarm system articles here: http://www.home-security-alarm-systems.com/

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Are Alert Car alarms by JBS Technologies any good?

I am looking for a car alarm with remote start, that I can install myself. After talking with the sales person at Best Buy, and having the price of the alarm plus installation nearly double on me (I have an older vehicle that does not require any by-pass modules). I don't feel like spending $380 to have a $180 alarm installed. I also have a lot of experience in installing components such as stereos and amplifiers. However most alarm manufacturers will not warrant their product if not installed by a certified installer. The Alert alarm is being sold pre-wired for the vehicle through http://www.autoalarmpro.com. I have not been able to find any reviews on the product.
Thanks,
Pat
Thanks for the response. The car I have is a 1995 Ford Crown Vic. I have power door locks, but no factory keyless entry. I installed an aftermarket one when I bought the car, but the aftermarket unit is wearing out, and it's time to upgrade.

No. Dont waste your time. You can find a good prestige alarm from several online sights as well as many other brands. eBay too caries tons of good alarms and though there are dangers with eBay, there are many good honest deals there too.

Installing an alarm can be a hassle and even dangerous if you dont know what you are doing. It depends on the type of car you are putting it on. If you put the make and model of your car, I may can help more.

As far as warranty BS is concerned, it's just that: BS. the product is either going to work or not work and typically most shops I know of arent going to simply install a new alarm for you if yours fails... its not that kind of warranty. *usually* (and there are probably some shops that work differently), the shop will just take out your old one and send it off to be fixed. You can do that on your own. I've never had any company ask me who installed a product. Likewise, I havent had many problems with my stuff either. Most companies as that you call in and get a Return Authorization (RA) and then you ship the product and the RA to them. They fix it or replace it as they see fit and return it back. It works the same way as with a dealer, in most cases (again, some shops may be different).

Some good brands to go with are Ungo, Prestige, Code Alarm, Clifford, Viper, DEI, and Harada (though they make OEM stuff now). Features are wonderful on the alarm but the more features you have, the more work it is. For example, your gm/saturn/chevy vehicles have the Passlock system to bypass for remote start which requires either fiddling with resistors and solder or buying a $20 to $50 module to put in. Many Fords need a module that houses a second key strapped to the steering column so that the car sees a certain ohm of resistance at all times for remote start to work. Door locks can vary in the way they work and most times require some sort of relay (or combination of relays) configuration. Still, NONE Of this is hard to do, just time consuming.

***Adding to this in response to your information***
A 1995 Crown Vic is easy to do a keyless entry on. You can get a good alarm by any of those brands for pretty cheap. Even one doing remote start is not a hassle and something you could do easily. I dont think the 1995's had any special features with them that would have forced a person to get an additional module. my email address is fosgate3@yahoo.com if you have other questions.

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