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Originally Posted by G-Benz
Check your ordinances in your area though...
...alarm horns are not to be installed outside of the dwellings in our community...probably due to the number of "falses" emanating from 120db horns at night. Installs here require mounting the horn(s) somewhere in the attic area. The monitoring service, and maybe the neighbors know when there is a breach, and eventually the cops, but no one else will be clued in to a break-in in progress.
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I have the sirens inside the attic facing outside in the gable roof peaks.
As for ordinances, I want that alarm to make a raket if I'm broken in. Ordinances aren't going to replace property if I'm broken into if no one can hear a small siren. It does no good to have a small wimpy siren that you an only hear inside the house. Burglars don't like to attract attention, so the more siren noise the better!
Plus the alarm system calls my cell phone, not a monitoring service. This avoids the time delay for the monitoring service to call the home, then call the police. Plus I save $ for monitoring it myself.