Hang on though, @johnson.lee, that school district actually might have gotten away with the lazy termination if the resistors were at least the right value for the zone. I ran into a similar false alarm issue once where a guy used a 2.2k resistor on a zone that was supposed to be 1k, and it caused the panel to see the line as open when it was actually just borderline. The resistors at the panel can work sometimes, but only if you match the exact spec and the wire run is clean. That six false alarm week sounds like the panel was just barely seeing the glass break as valid because the impedance was off.

Ever try a split beam torque wrench? Worked for me on those O-470s.

Man that is rough, really feel for you dealing with that. Nothing worse than a bolt snapping off and turning a simple job into a whole weekend project.

Oh man, that's still $40 you could've spent on a decent mop and bucket instead. I remember seeing those same exact articles and thinking we'd all be living like the Jetsons by now. Instead we got Roombas that get stuck on a single sock and can't handle a rug with any kind of fringe. The whole thing feels like a scam looking back... we were all so gullible believing that future tech would actually work right.

@foster.wade buddy of mine fixed like 60 of those things for strangers and all he got was a bag of used chargers.