A good example of a series circuit

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by jclick

Alarm contacts tied to security systems… whether they be burglar alarms, fire alarms, access control systems or even inputs on some video systems… are wired in either a “series” or “parallel” fashion. I found a good diagram of window contacts wired in series…

Actually if you just search for series or parallel wiring on the [...]

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What is security?

Posted on November 18th, 2009 by jclick

So what is security? Well, Wikipedia defines security as:
The word security is derived from the Ancient Greek “Se-Cura” and literally translates to “without fear”. ‘Security’ is therefore the state of being secure, or the actions employed to achieve that state, i.e. to be secure is to be without fear of harm.
I guess my definition would [...]

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