You can modernize the panel with a normal Vista-20P and still have the keyswitch arming functionality. Make sure that it’s not a 6 volt panel if you’re replacing that detector. A lot of those old key-operated Ademco and similar Dictograph panels were 6 volt panels. Not sure about FBI.

Amazing those roller switches still work at all.

It has literally been so long since I’ve watched I now have a new KZfaq account😢 it’s nice to see you and your kitties again and great in depth video!

On your next system test, can you tamper the sensors?

Fascinating system. I love old electronsics of all kinds. Thanks so much for sharing.

My old house had one of these when I lived in Europe unfortunately the power was disconnected to the Box so I was never able to see it in action and obviously the batteries have gone flat years ago.

I believe the blue boxes were older, so you had the newer model in the tan box. I worked on these systems in the 80s. Bulletproof control panels.

Few months ago I removed a system like this and put in a Vista 20p. Kept the key switches and the door switches. Everything else got replaced with wireless contacts.

Back in the soviet union the "alarm" my grandfather used was a bare live wire across the doors and windows. Anyone getting in in the night would not see it and potentially get a deadly electric shock 😀

I hate the new voice sound not to be rude. I like the old voice

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These are super rare systems to find! My grandparents house which was built in 1988 has a sinilar style but everything is controlled by the keypads but also has a few sirens and System Sensor smoke/heat detectors with Edwards heat detectors on my system.

Very cool. Thank you for documenting this technology of a bygone era.

I thought a 1975 burglar alarm would be like Home Alone stuff

Grocery store I used to work for, 25 years ago, had the same type of security system. Just turn the key to activate the alarm and lock the door behind you.

This is a very interesting system, i would like to see it after restoration.

Starting to make me wonder what grandmaw had hiding in that house

Shame it's not purple though 😉

KZfaq just recommended me this video, and it reminded me of Sim Lim Tower in Singapore as, the last time I visited it, it had a vintage fire alarm system that I believe was installed during construction, and it was a manual or analogue system with lots of knobs and buttons, compared to the digital systems I was accustomed to seeing, so I took as much photos as I could and I think those photos are somewhere on my NAS. Besides that, I remember seeing a vintage Philips surveillance camera in one of the lift lobbies (edit: at the nearby Sim Lim Square, not Tower), which was somehow still powered on (it had a power indicator) but I didn't think the camera was connected to any video input.

Fire Burglary Instruments? FBI.

I didn't know these alarms even existed in homes back then

I'd expect a system from the 70s to use electric bells or mechanical buzzers instead of an electronic siren. I suppose the siren could have been upgraded.

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I was absolutely mad on burglar alarm systems when I was young. I cant count how many stand alone and wired systems I bought and hooked up in my room. There are holes from wire clips, magnetic contacts, control panels and PIRs over my childhood room. I was one weird kid.

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Just came across this,really fascinating video on vintage technology, thanks! I wondered: do the windows have contacts on also? Clever idea having the beam as internal detection, in case an intruder got past the contact system. Very impressive and informative vid, any more on this wd be interesting

Thanks for the video! I used to install Brinks home security systems almost 20 years ago. Fun times! I really enjoyed installing them. Every house was different and had its own challenges. The more difficult installs were older homes - the wood was like concrete! You could easily burn up drill bits drilling into the door frames and such. I avoided using wireless contacts unless I absolutely had to. Wired systems were more reliable and you didn’t have to worry about changing out batteries in the sensors or false alarms. I’d like a video that looks more closely at the panel in the closet if possible. Thanks!

Never seen something like this before. Super fascinating. Thanks for sharing this!

When I was a kid in the mid 80’s I seen one go off in this big old house. It sounded like school bells and was so loud it hurt my ears and all these bright lights came on inside the house and all around the outside of the house. There was a trip wire or something running along the top of the fence and maybe an animal crawling over it set it off.

Now u have to install another system to protect this one cuz it would be ashame for this one to be destroyed by a burglar

Why are you filming in PORTRAIT orientation?

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Very cool seeing someone else with one of these! I’ve got a bunch of the newer style 4012/8012 boards and an older 4000/8000, but there’s something up with my programmer I need to fix before I can use them. I’ve got the programming manual for them on paper that I can scan in if you need it.

I remember working on these suckers, ha ha ha, I still have some of those key switches

Haha, "each kitchen"! 😅 Yeah, but I have been in friends' houses that did and do have 2 kitchens! I love that kind of house though it's a very uncommon design!

"It has these on every single door." Wow, interesting that she would think it was "necessary" to arm every pantry, bathroom, and furnace closet door, etc., in her house!

I watched ExitSign250's video about the vintage Dictograph system and now i keep seeing these old rare vintage alarm systems, i love it

When will you do a test of the Simon xt

Test the fire alarm side of panel

I'm suprised that system doesn't have a bell box appliance. When i was a child (in the 70s), my family lived in a house that had a very similar alarm system installed. It didn't have a siren, but it did have an incredibly loud bell box on the side of the house. When it went off, it sounded like someone was robbing a bank😂

I expected to hear an old AC buzzer

I don't like the voice, but it is a cool alarm system

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I guess you’re adding a motion sensor

awesome system, what detector are you replacing that one with?

You don't need to hide the pin. If it's a one protecting your home, you'll have to hide it.

You don't need to hide the pin. If it's a one protecting your home, you'll have to hide it.

My smoke detectors went off at Saturday because the eggs were burned and then fire department arrived

I actually like this voice better because the older one talks to fast and this one actually says words slower so my grandpa can understand beacuse he is very old and the voice is working well for them and my grandparents used to have an adt impassa but my grandpa hated it but this one is much better than adt

This is the Voice my grandma has on her alarm system