- The A-Z reference on designing, installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting modern security and fire alarm systems
- Covers residential, commercial, and industrial buildings
- Includes safety tips, regulations, emerging technologies, estimating and bidding, and more
- CD-ROM contains sample forms, checklists, fully-searchable glossary, and hot-linked industry reference URLs
The business and technical handbook for low voltage wiring
Burglars, vandals, fires, even industrial spies don't stand a chance against a professionally alarmed building, but today there is a serious shortage of security and other low voltage contractors and technicians. Now, you can take advantage of the boom.
Low Voltage Wiring: Security/Fire Alarm Systems has the answers—with the CD, this book is not just a training kit featuring all the skills necessary to design, install, and maintain security and fire alarm systems in any building—it is a complete business management and growth tutorial.
- A comprehensive source of easy-to-use answers for designing, installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting security and fire alarm systems in residential and commercial buildings
- Don't miss out on cabling, building automation, and the coming of photovoltaic circuits
- Understand blueprints: dimensions, symbols, the keynotes for success
- A look at the code
- Quick guide to troubleshooting techniques
- Loaded with photos, drawings, and checklists that back up the text
- How to maximize profits as a low voltage contractor
Includes Business Building Tools:
- Estimating guidelines and tips
- Additional profit centers
- Writing real-world contracts
- CD with downloadable business checklists
Includes CD-ROM!
- Loaded with business aids
- Time-saving checklists
- Internet addresses for industry contacts
- Live, searchable glossary
Preface:
In general, an alarm system is used to protect life and property. Therefore, any company or person who owns something of value has a valid interest in
security and fire-alarm systems.
Security and fire-alarm systems are designed for every application imaginable - for structures as small as homes and roadside produce stands; large hotels
and factories; security alarms for guarding automobiles; large national defense installations - the list is very long. And this book is designed to review the
various security systems currently available to help the reader select the most appropriate system for the job.
This new edition adds a first part that surveys the business of security systems and computer information for the professional. It also includes a
nuts-and-bolts survey of how to start or grow a business, and how to work in other areas of the low-voltage systems industry.
It then covers installation methods, techniques, and requirements to comply with the 1999 National Electrical Code. Part 3, A Deeper Understanding, reviews electrical circuits, the code and print reading in depth.
The new edition also features a twenty-first-century reference section that guides the reader into a listing of references for information to be found on
the Internet. To move fully into the new millennium, we have included a compact disk. The checklists in the reference section can be accessed simply and
quickly from your own computer.
The abundance of solid information makes this book invaluable to anyone involved with security and fire-alarm systems.
Table of Contents:
Preface; Part I: The Security Systems Business; Chapter 1: A Business Built on Contracts; Chapter 2: Estimating the Installation of Security Systems;
Chapter 3: Managing a Security Systems Business; Chapter 4: Profit Centers - Service, Maintenance, and Ancillary Cash Flow. Part II: The Field; Chapter 5:
Basic Security System Considerations; Chapter 6: Basic Installation Techniques; Chapter 7: Residential Security Systems; Chapter 8: Commercial and
Industrial Security Systems; Chapter 9: Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Security Systems; Part III: A Deeper Understanding; Chapter 10: Electrical
Circuits; Chapter 11: The Code; Chapter 12: Print Reading; Using the CD; Glossary; Resource Directory; Index. |
