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Had a chat with a retired installer at a supply house in Cleveland that made me rethink panel placement
I was grabbing some resistors at ADI last Tuesday and this older guy saw me looking at a bunch of parts. He asked where I put panels and I said basement utility room like everyone. He said no way, put it in a hallway closet near the front door where the wifi reaches better and you can hear the keypad from the bedroom. Then he walked me through how he started doing that after 20 years of callbacks for false alarms in basements with no signal. Made me realize I have been making extra work for myself this whole time. Anyone else change up their go-to panel spot after a random conversation?
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anna_shah92mo ago
That Cleveland guy is onto something. I moved my panel from the basement to a hall closet two years ago and my false alarm calls dropped by like 80 percent. It made me think about how we just copy what everyone else does without stopping to question if it even works well anymore. Kind of like how people put their router in the basement because that's where the cable comes in, even though they spend all their time upstairs on the couch.
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