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Posted by Matt Ion on November 26, 2006, 8:54 pm
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My wife is taking a property-insurance course as part of her underwriting
certification, and is struggling a bit right now with the alarm portion...
specifically, her study guide dives right into full-on "high-low balanced"
ULC-spec designs with NO information on the basics of alarm operation...
needless to say, not having any background in electronics at all, she's having
trouble grasping a lot of this.
Wondering if anyone can point out some online tutorials on basic electronics and
alarm operation that might help her out?
TIA.
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Posted by G. Morgan on November 26, 2006, 9:06 pm
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wrote:
>My wife is taking a property-insurance course as part of her underwriting
>certification, and is struggling a bit right now with the alarm portion...
>specifically, her study guide dives right into full-on "high-low balanced"
>ULC-spec designs with NO information on the basics of alarm operation...
>needless to say, not having any background in electronics at all, she's having
>trouble grasping a lot of this.
>
>Wondering if anyone can point out some online tutorials on basic electronics
and
>alarm operation that might help her out?
There's always Level 1 training:
http://www.learningestore.com/digitalnts?ssp=%2Fcatalog%2Fproducts_search_detail.saba&id=prdct000000000043859&price=495
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-Graham
(delete the double e's to email)
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Posted by Matt Ion on November 26, 2006, 10:41 pm
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> wrote:
>
>
>>My wife is taking a property-insurance course as part of her underwriting
>>certification, and is struggling a bit right now with the alarm portion...
>>specifically, her study guide dives right into full-on "high-low balanced"
>>ULC-spec designs with NO information on the basics of alarm operation...
>>needless to say, not having any background in electronics at all, she's having
>>trouble grasping a lot of this.
>>
>>Wondering if anyone can point out some online tutorials on basic electronics
and
>>alarm operation that might help her out?
>
>
>
> There's always Level 1 training:
>
http://www.learningestore.com/digitalnts?ssp=%2Fcatalog%2Fproducts_search_detail.saba&id=prdct000000000043859&price=495
Yeah, that's a little extreme... she's not looking to become an alarm tech, she
needs a better understanding of the basics to get her through her insurance
course.
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Posted by Jim on November 26, 2006, 10:54 pm
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Matt Ion wrote:
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> Yeah, that's a little extreme... she's not looking to become an alarm tech, she
> needs a better understanding of the basics to get her through her insurance
course.
I think she'd be better off, going to the library and getting a book on
basic alarm systems. I'd guess, now with the internet the ultimate
source of everything you ever wanted to know about everything, that
some of the books would be outdated. But, as you said, she doesn't need
to know as much as a tech. There used to be some pretty basic books out
there on alarm systems she could probably breeze through in a few
nights of reading.
Here's another little suggestion. When my kids were in high school and
had to write on a subject they knew little about, we'd go into the
childrens section and check out as many books as we could on the
subject. After reading this simplistic and basic information, we'd
later go back and were then better able to pick books at their level
they could make use of. They always got good marks using this method. I
should say "we" always got good marks :-)
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Posted by Matt Ion on November 27, 2006, 3:40 am
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> Matt Ion wrote:
>
>>Yeah, that's a little extreme... she's not looking to become an alarm tech, she
>>needs a better understanding of the basics to get her through her insurance
course.
>
>
>
> I think she'd be better off, going to the library and getting a book on
> basic alarm systems. I'd guess, now with the internet the ultimate
> source of everything you ever wanted to know about everything, that
> some of the books would be outdated. But, as you said, she doesn't need
> to know as much as a tech. There used to be some pretty basic books out
> there on alarm systems she could probably breeze through in a few
> nights of reading.
Well, I know I've seen some online electronics tutorials that had nifty
animated-current-flow and animated-switch-and-relay-action graphics and what
not, and figured that would help her more understand what's going on.
Just can't remember any of those sites, or find them again in a number of
searches (damn Google's advertising-favored sorting, most of the top hits are
book ads).
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