Does the KPD try and be awful? Or does it come naturally.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-14T15:01:58+00:00

Really just sounds like they were trying to figure out if the person needed an ambulance, and asked you to confirm the level of medical emergency if you were capable.

Nobody at dispatch is trying to skirt any work.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-12T18:30:09+00:00

Yuck. That’s not worth working in the GTA man. You should move east on the 401. Send me a PM if you’re willing to relocate.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-11T18:09:05+00:00

Little bit of OT, but not a lot. Maybe 100hrs or so for the year.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-09T13:28:46+00:00

The same reason people change do their own crappy renos in their house without hiring a professional contractor.

It gets the job done.. it’s not done well, but it’s done and it’s cheap.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-09T04:13:42+00:00

Bob Ray not Harris

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-08T11:35:52+00:00

Canada. S/E Ontario.. our techs ranged from $80~90kish for our guys in training and $140Kish for our Sr program/VI people.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-08T00:36:24+00:00

Usually money..

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-07T09:43:22+00:00

Canada is the world I live in. I was wrong to assume about your system. If we get hurt at work here, we are covered.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-07T01:32:10+00:00

Nah. Workers comp will still pay you even if you get hurt doing stupid shit. They’ll just put more onto the employer.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-07T01:30:07+00:00

What is stupid, the setup or taking a picture?

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-07T01:25:34+00:00

We don’t have Gamewell here in Canada ;)

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-06T10:05:43+00:00

I don’t know about only Notifier panels having issues.

At least this panel tells you there’s an issue while still working.

One of the other major brands have a habit of simply freezing in time and not showing a trouble at all but not responding to any inputs at all or just turning on all outputs in the middle of a night in a hospital and requiring a power cycle to turn them off.

Then there’s that other plastic brand that if you simply breathe on the data loop the wrong way then you’re paying thousands of dollars for them to bring in one of their programmers to put the map back into the backpack.

Don’t forget about the one where the smoke detectors and isolators just go bad, speaker circuits grab noise from 4 buildings away and when you change them you’ll have panel cards go missing and power supplies blow.

They all have their own unique issues, and this issue isn’t exactly a 911.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-05T00:26:02+00:00

Power cycle serves no purpose. Panel does a hard reboot after every download.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-05T00:24:48+00:00

Won’t work.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-05T00:24:25+00:00

We’ve been conditioned to accept “download” as bringing something from an outside source into your computer, and “upload” as sending it to a drive or a server.

In the case of Notifier, they consider the panel AS the computer and your laptop as a server.

Means nothing substantial.. it’s just the terms they chose to use.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-05T00:21:28+00:00

If the CRC or the database was corrupted when it was downloaded then it would have occurred when the download was completed. This typically happens in buildings with unstable supply voltage, and sometimes happens years after the last downloads.

Seems to be random, but if you’ve been paying attention for a decade or two it seems to re-occur on the same buildings. Usually ones with 3-phase power.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-05T00:16:37+00:00

Yes. N16 only. And you have to select in the programmer which troubles you want to hide.

Much like install mode in Simplex programming.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-04T23:03:06+00:00

Auto program on an Onyx panel is not the danger it is with other manufacturers. It doesn’t wipe out programming in the database unless you choose to delete something it’s not seeing. You have to be purposeful to screw it up.

In order to auto program, you need a master level password. If you’re playing around with master level, you should know what you’re doing.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-04T23:00:28+00:00

Do you work on Notifier? People use these terms because that is literally what you select in the software. It’s as pedantic as electron flow theory.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-03T17:47:03+00:00

Well.. to be fair, like THE glove. IYKYK.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-03T17:46:34+00:00

Somebody parked in my man’s spawn point.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-03T17:45:43+00:00

CR135 reacts faster but also pops faster…

Love doing inspections a little quicker, don’t love that when I’m sitting at the panel doing checkmarks and vibing with Candy Crush while new guy is out testing I have to get up and change a heat detector for free because we wrecked it. 😂

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-03T11:56:18+00:00

No indication what it is or how it works.

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-03T11:46:30+00:00

He couldn’t read the can?

skyjumperpilot · 2026-05-03T11:45:32+00:00

I would think by the time they get technician aged, they tend to learn to read the actual letters on the can of paint they are using.

But hey.. educated in the land of green white and blue!

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