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Burglar/Intruder Alarm Cable

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The thread about colour coding got me thinking.

Not wanting to hijack that thread though.

I was going to waffle on but determined to save you all from that.

So Burglar/Intruder alarms - hardwired not wireless.

We use 6 core alarm cable quite often but in the days before PIRs it was common to use 4 core.

Those having a set colour coding usually picked which colours were for which function and stuck with that.

Those starting their careers when 4 core was common (before PIRs were invented) had a slightly different mindset to those that started on 6 core because PIRs were already in vogue.

Anybody agree/disagree ?

 

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    AJJewsbury: 
     

    I'd always presumed there wasn't a standard colour code for intruder alarm cabling - as that would make tampering easier.

        - Andy.

     

    Indeed. I was taught the same….. even to the extent of wiring each system to a random arrangement of colours but declaring this on the inside of the control panel lid.

    Although this may, at first,  seem silly, any decent alarm engineer is gonna work it out in seconds.

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    AJJewsbury: 
     

    I'd always presumed there wasn't a standard colour code for intruder alarm cabling - as that would make tampering easier.

        - Andy.

     

    Indeed. I was taught the same….. even to the extent of wiring each system to a random arrangement of colours but declaring this on the inside of the control panel lid.

    Although this may, at first,  seem silly, any decent alarm engineer is gonna work it out in seconds.

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