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FREE SOAP ON ORDERS OVER 500$ Here we are again on the bleeding edge of Internet selling, yes a FREE bar of handmade soap with every order over 500$C. This bar of soap is worth 3$, and handmade by a skilled artisan, my son. He has to sell 75,000 bars to pay for his university education. The pressure is on.

Welcome to one of the more mundane sites on the web, but it works, has a sense of humour and feeds my kids. If you have any questions, send me an email Doug Harper or give me a phone call at 905-294-6473. For a really secure order, send a fax to 905-471-6322 and save 5%

Yes, taking the plunge and moving over to a webstore format. Although boring, it seems to be the way to go. So I've got the beta site going, loaded it with smoke detector bits and currently adding about 150 access control pieces not found on the rest of this site.

Leviton Vizia products have been added to the List, they are now certified for sale in Canada If you are in the Toronto area, and want Vizia specified, drop me an email and I can have a specifier on your job site, talk about service !

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FREE SOAP ON ORDERS OVER 500$ Here we are again on the bleeding edge of Internet selling, yes a FREE bar of handmade soap with every order over 500$C. This bar of soap is worth 3$, and handmade by a skilled artisan, my son. He has to sell 75,000 bars to pay for his university education. The pressure is on.

Welcome to one of the more mundane sites on the web, but it works, has a sense of humour and feeds my kids. If you have any questions, send me an email Doug Harper or give me a phone call at 905-294-6473. For a really secure order, send a fax to 905-471-6322 and save 5%

Yes, taking the plunge and moving over to a webstore format. Although boring, it seems to be the way to go. So I've got the beta site going, loaded it with smoke detector bits and currently adding about 150 access control pieces not found on the rest of this site.

Small security stuff like locks, tempers, stickers have gone up a lot in the last month, contacts are the same price Leviton is fine with a 2-3 week fill on large orders. They have discontinued the 6312 timer, none in the US, I got the last 7 Ivories, whites are gone. A real workhorse timer, no replacement. X-10 has pulled out of Canada and is shipping out of the US. The lights are off at their Ontario office. This is resulting in shipping delays and order filling issues, 1-2 weeks on large orders. Smokes, not a problem, BUT 3 week delay on for COS2010 dual monoxide/smokes 120vac. good supply of ESA5011's Hope all is well, Cool summer this year here, lots of rain, but then thats why we have all this water. Later.

DSC is doing a recall on the Version 1.11 keypads RF5501 and RF5508 they have out in the marketplace. This should make for some special prcing on RF kits as people try to dump them: Recall

During times of economic restraint we all have to cut back, so we are doing our part: we no longer sell Smarthome products, in fact there shoud be a sale soon of smarthome inventory

A little note on the exchange rates on this site: We are a Canadian Company, located in Canada, eh, which for those of you that have never heard of us we are a peaceful nation, just a little north of the United States. We are the home of Santa Clause and fresh water. All invoices are in Canadian dollars. Your Invoice will show Canadian Dollars. If you live outside of Canada, your credit card company will do the exchange rate to your currency. We post on this site U.S. dollars and Euros, BUT due to the rapid fluctautions in the currency market these days and my mickey mouse web site, the numbers we show may not be the exact exchange rate, If in doubt, verify.

As the world economies are going in the toilet, we are starting to get in a lot of realy small orders, like 5$ for example. We have now started to add a 5$ Handling fee to orders below 25$C. This is an effort to pay for the cost of putting whatever it is you have ordered in a box, wrapping it up, putting on a label and so on. Although some of you think we can just wrap some tissue paper around a smoke detector or a a circuit board and slap it in the mail, the real world says it will get damaged. For example how many broken CD's have you received in the mail ?

The Moon

Always thinking.... So I'm sitting here a few days ago listening to the radio to hear that Eastern Europe has defaulted on their loan to Western Europe, to the tune of 1.5 Trillion $US, which is a boatload, but how big a boatload is it ? So I emptied my pockets and pulled out 1.85$ in hard earned cash. One of the coins was a loonie(dollar), if we used our loonie as the payment, just how many loonies would this be if they were piled on top of each other ? Lets start with a the default amount 1,500,000,000,000 $ US, or about 2,000,000,000,000 $C. With 1,000,000 mm to the kilometer, the pile would be 2,000,000 km high, but since the loonie is 2mm thick, the pile would be 4,000,000 km high, or for our non-metric readers, using American dollars, the pile would be about 2 million miles high, now if you recall, the moon is about 250,000 miles away. So then I thought, how much metal would the Government of Canada have to mine to make this pile of loonies ? Well, a loonie weighs about 7 grammes, so we would need to hack out of the ground about 14,000,000,000,000 grammes of metal, or about 14 million metric tonnes of metal, or a little more than half the total mass of the moon. Again, for our non-metric viewers, its about half the mass of the moon. Do you get a funny feeling that something just ain't right ?

October, when little childrens minds turn to eating tons and tons of low grade candy. About 45 days from now your dentist is ging to make a killing.

October 1st: So I arrived at the office this morning, sparked up the computers, popped up my email software and everything just disappeared in front of my eyes, excellent start to the month. So, if we had a conversation in progress....send me an email and remind me what we were talking about........

September was a fun month, especially as companies in Canada are trying to waffle-wiggle their way out of the price spread now that the U.S. and Canadian Dollar is at par. Makes you kind of wonder what NAFTA is all about. I could mention some specifics here but my suppliers would get very upset, so lets just say they appear to be working at it.

For those of you in Ontario getting ready to vote for a new provincial leader my only wise words, other then they are all a bunch of self serving candy assed toads is "Vote early, Vote often"

X-10 Has announced price changes on their product line effective October 2007, interesting concept considering the state of the U.S. dollar, I was expecting prices to drop 15-20%, silly me I guess
EXCEL Spreadsheet

TL250 Software DSC "You can now offer FREE System Administrator software to your customers for the New Power Series and Maxsys Series control panels. Using a TL250 Internet Communicator, a customer can easily connect to his/her security system (via the internet or local network) and manage users, view the event history and perform various types of functions. A MD-12 Modem is also available if connection via a telephone line is needed. Security is never a concern since DLS2002SA is fully password protected and encrypted." FREE DLS/TL250 Software DLS2002SA Engine only setup(18M) DLS_2002SA Service Pack 2(18M) DLS2002 TL-250 Driver DLS2002SA PC1616 Driver DLS2002SA PC1832 Driver DLS2002SA PC1864 Driver TL250 Manual(pdf) TL250 Cheat Sheet (pdf) TL250 Spec Sheet (pdf)

September specials are in. Generators have been deleted from our system. Some items you can sell on the web and some items you can't.

September, a period of much merriment as the kids go back to school. Summer has now ended here in Canada, Real men are out greasing up their snow mobiles.....Got the September Specials in, got to put it up. Pricing is pretty close to actual as shown, adding more pictures. Losing 5% for 'no pictures' is killing me. If you have a question.... e-me.

Just thinking: IF the Russians actually do claim the North Pole as theirs then what happens to Santa ? Dual Citizenship ? Will he still get the Canada Pension ? And you came here for Alarm Panel Information !

Don't think all these speling mistakes are due to a lack of command of the old Websters, but thnk more of it as Dougs special shorthand

X-10 is having a contractor sales, buy any two kits, save a boatload X-10 Promo

X-10 Canada is running a special on their test kits, spend 1000$ on X-10 and get a FREE test kit, worth over 200$ X-10 Test Kit FREEBEE(ppt)

Lot of things going on this summer. Going Crazy, may take a day for me to get back to you via e-mail. With the exchange rate on the U.S. dollar getting closer, most of my hard coded U.S. $ conversions are off. All Currencies shown in Canadian $ are valid, and is what we bill out at. Been having some delays shipping smoke detectors to the US. We ship US Priority Mail equivalent, but as smokes are radio-active they appear to be getting delayed crossing the border, they are arriving, but sometimes they appear to take an extra week

This is good, LEVITON VIZIA RF products, that I know some of you have been calling about. They are NOT available in Canada, BUT if you buy them from the US, from my competition, they have Canadian CSA stampings on them. Send an E-mail to Leviton Canada and ask them what the deal is

Did you know that the new DSC alarm panels will call your cell phone and tell you what zone has gone off ? Their panels are getting more progressive

Listed down this page is a collection of DSC alarm sales and technical tips, which unless you scrolled down this page you would not even know they exist. The new 1832/64 panels have been designed so that they can call a phone, such as your cell phone and let you know when your alarm has trigged, and notify you what zone has tripped. Neat little add-on feature Telephone Notification

Welcome to July, Hope everybody in Canada had their flag out, ate back bacon and drank to much beer on the weekend, and cleared the snow off the drive To those of you in the U.S. I hope you all have your flags ready, apple pie on the table, and a bottle of J.D. ready.

Running like a chicken with its head cut off, going as fast as I can, most items are shipped the same day they are ordered, other than Leviton, which takes 4 days to get in. Shipments of smokes to the US appear to be having some delays, but they do not get lost. I suspect the delays are due to the fact they are radio-active and may be tripping some sensors at the border

DSC is now shipping the IT-100 units, I have them in stock

For those of you in Toronto and area, last weekends thunderstom took out your alarm panel when the power was restored. No kidding, now is the time to replace your little minimal 4 amp hour battery with a new 7 amp hour. I'm not going to go into a rant about why, just do as I tell you, and no, I do not have a store, you cannot pick one up, freight 5$, GTA Get this battery Don't fry your panel

Not seen any Z-WAVE OR IT-100 units, everything else is stable. For those of you using air conditioning systems, if you go down into the basement where the furnace is and the room is really cold AND the furnace when running air is going 'whoof' 'whoof' , then get your furnace cleaned, it means the 'A' frame is clogged. Save a boatload of electrical costs. Free information here folks

Went shopping on the web yesterday for some car parts. It's a scary place ! and I own this web site !! Confidence is not high on some of these sites. I'm amazed at how many companies do not ship to Canada, and for sure they do not know the international shipping game. Some disclaimers are totally scary, got to wonder at times, well, I do, which brings me to this site, totally secure, happy and honest, all email replied to, prompt friendly telephone service some days, other days, so-so. Pricing charged as shown, low freight charges, no duty/taxes into the U.S. Shipments to offshore North America, about 5 days. When you get your Visa statement our company name is listed, not 12689 Inc. I'm a one man show, got a question ? call me @ 905-294-6473. I may not be in my office or near a computer, but though the magic of cell phones we can talk, I carry a pencil and paper, good to go. Cheers

June, 2007, our 20th year of business has started, no longer a teenager. This is a good reason to party for the year. Will think of something OK, hows this, if you have purchased from us before - and we know who you are, 10% OFF, at least for June, everybody else, regular price. Running out of Girl Guide cookies. Got the security sales in, not posted them, really busy, moving as fast as I can, e-mail a couple of days behind. We have 2 seasons here, winter and summer. Once minute you are in your igloo and bam, the igloo is gone and the countryside explodes with life. With the Canadian dollar on the rise to the US dollar, my pricing out out of whack by a couple of points. Smarthome products, to Canadians, has dropeed in price, the smoke detectors, to the Us are higher than posted. Will correct this month.

The big guy from X-10 just dropped off this PowerPoint Program that explains X-10 to you, 10M in size, all yous X-10 PowerPoint Catalog

The DSC IT-100 will be shipping later this month, or thats the story, about 100$C

Working on the * May 2007 Specials* Great deals on RF enabled Keypads and Cameras, AND the NEW GSM Dialer

May. If can read this you made it. Congratulations. Working on this months iteration of the website, The Canadian dollar is stronger, or the U.S dollar is weaker. Guess it depends on ones perspective, redoing the currency conversions, Smarthome price are therefore lower. Going as fast as I can

International Diplomacy: 10% OFF on all offshore orders

Leviton Canada will be shipping their new Z-wave family at the Start of May, Well thats what they said in April, which has now been pushed out to June

For those of you in Southern Ontario, that hot yellow thing in the sky is called the sun, no, it's not the moon burning

With the high cost of electricity, global warming, and the population of North America getting older, I'm amazed that people are not into the automation of their houses. X-10 Sales are lower now than they were 20 years ago. I could go on for hours about this, but won't. Simple control of lighting and heating systems can greatly reduce your energy bill, and make your life a lot easier. I have had a computer running my house for over 20 years, we never touch a wall switch, motion activated, event driven, nothing radical. You will not see my house in a magazine, not into flash. Simple, basic, walk into the stair well to the basement, lights go on, walk out of a room, lights go off, go to bed/leave the house, house shuts down. Simple, basic, low energy bills. We do not wear sweaters in the winter, or sit in the dark. Why have the lights on in the basement when you are not there ? Perhaps people just like paying the utility companies.

When designing a security system, keep in mind one of the first places an intruder goes is to the side of the house to cut the phone lines. Usually they cut every cable they can find: Phone, TV, Satellite, a real mess. But YOU are smarter. If at all possible, relocate these cables so they are hidden, in a pipe, in the ground, someplace where they would not expect to find them. Then in the location where they should be, run a set of dummy cables that are actually connected as zones to the alarm panel. In this way, when they cut the cables, the alarm goes off. Put a siren nearby. They will cut the lines before they touch the siren, you could of course fool them all with the above wireless dialer 3055I

Many thanks for the contributions last month to Dougs Bugatti Veyron Sports car fund. Through offering free freight with only a 1$ donation to the fund I have collected enough money to purchase a windshield wiper blade, only 1,199,832 orders to go

We are now open for business 24/7, thats right, so even you, in Bora Bora, can give us a call @ 647-290-6473 and spend your hard earned money to gain material goods, the fun capitalist way. Operators are standing by, or sleeping, or out for a coffee, but we are open, just for you, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Don't delay, call today !!!

Every week I look at the logs to see which countries are popping by for a look see. The U.S. is always number 1, then Canada. The next 3 get discounts. So here we go, in order:
5% OFF on purchases made by: Taiwan, Bulgaria, South Africa

In the words of Stuart Mclean from the The Vinyl Cafe
"We may not be big, but we're small."

This is a serious site, but after 20 years of doing this, I'm having fun. Sarcastic comments, typos, spellling mistakes are the norm. A basic site, 8923 items listed, 2 Million lines of code, fill in the blanks order form. Some items have pictures, some don't. You get 5% off if there are no pictures. Items are shipped via the Postal System, insured, with a tracking number. It's the best way to ship boxes anywhere, no duty/taxes upon entry to the U.S.

Several of you have been asking for the New PowerSeries PC1832, PC1864 Manuals in French. They do not exist, DSC is working on it and have said they wll forward them to me when they become available

I get asked this every day, so here we go, in print: Yes, you can buy anything you see on this site, I maintain this site just for you. Our policy is to make your money, our money, just like the banks, but here, you actually get something We sell to anybody with a valid credit card: you, contractors, institutions, you, small business, you, even big business, we do not discriminate !! heck, we don't even use spelll checkers. Remember if you see it here, we want you to have it. Hope thats all clear now.

10% OFF on all Security Orders over 500$C

For those of you running the Smarthome Insteon product, such as the 1132CU you may want to download a sample copy of the Indigo software found at the bottom of their page

Just got a CD in from DSC Alarms chock full of information, so much in fact I have to purchase more disk space from my ISP. So to start here is a PowerPoint Presentation in English, explaining the features and how to program the new PowerSeries Alarm Panels. First, download this zipped file: Power Series Installation Tutorial(English) or this one: Power Series Installation Tutorial(Spanish) You then have to UNZIP it: Download UNZIP It blows out into its own directory, just click the program main.exe and off you go I have tried this and it works, if you have a problem let me know and I'll fix it.

Just added the DSC Product Catalogs in different Languages: French, English, Chinese DSC ala carte

How we do business
Currency Conversion	DSC Alarms Website	Assorted Manuals / pdfs
Smarthome Controller Manuals	X10 PRO/PDF	DSC PDF's Various Languages
Smarthome Catalogue/PDF	AIPHONE QuickSpec	Local(Toronto) Installers

This is the Price List, with some pictures	This is the related Leviton Manual, and they are big, have a coffee
LEVITON Decora Home Controls Pice List(150 Items)	LEVITON DHC Product PDF
LEVITON Integrated Networks Price List(2000 Items)	LIN PDF
LEVITON Everything Else Price List(6000 Items)	LEVITON L504 Product PDF

X-10 PRO has announced the arrival of the new and improved Telephone Transponder, that was discontinued about 8 week ago. They have the new one in stock, now called the PHC06. All the news here folks. They have also informed me that their SR731 RF repeater is going to be discontinued, between you, me and the fencepost, I wish they would get their act together and stop this nonsense.

Just added the DSC Product Catalogs in different Languages: French, English, Chinese DSC ala carte