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Instant trigger alarm signal?
How long does it take for the base station to send its signal to monitoring once an instant trigger sensor is set off? Is it instant or does it take a few seconds?
To clarify, I’m not asking about the amount of time it takes to get a call from monitoring once an alarm signal is received, as I know that takes about 30 seconds.
captain11
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2 years ago
@SoCalSimpli89 All of my intrusion sensors are set to instant trigger, accept for the one door we normally use to enter the house (even in home mode we get the same effect by making the exit and entry delay to 0.)
That said, from actual experience through deliberate testing and of course the occasional false alarm, it is literallly "instant". The base will not sound the siren until after the signal is sent to dispatch. The time from the instant trigger sensor is tripped to the siren sounding is within seconds. You can call monitoroing, have them put your entire system in test mode for x amount of time and test this yourself.
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emily_s
Community Admin
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3.3K Messages
2 years ago
Hi @SoCalSimpli89,
As Captain said, when your sensors are set to Instant Trigger, an alarm will sound and monitoring services will be alerted instantly - with zero delay.
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_WH
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9 months ago
Based on this post and others, is the below table correct?
If this is accurate, I would think that better mode of operation for the "Instant Trigger OFF" scenario should be just like the "Instant Trigger ON" Scenario in that the alarm event is sent to SS Monitoring immediately except that the Siren is activated is after the user defined time delay.
Thank you!!
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