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Honeywell Galaxy Dimension

Thoughts on the Honeywell Galaxy Dimension
By 26/10/10 [Last Edited by Joseph 21/12/10]
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Galaxy is the name of Honeywell Security's range of intruder alarm products, aimed at installers. The Galaxy 3 range of alarm panels were intended for high end grade 3 alarm installations. Now, Honeywell have shifted the technologies of the G3 range to their new Galaxy Dimension range. Galaxy Dimension panels now provide support for the new Galaxy TouchCentre touch screen keypad.



The TouchCentre keypad is designed to be end-user friendly, but it sports a virtual console which is laid out just like the MK7 keypads for advanced configuration, etc. Data is passed to and from the panel over RS485 bus, the successor to the ECP bus.

One annoying feature of the Dimension series, is that the user has to promote the engineer rights to use the system. Since when does that make sense? Thats just like a user promoting root rights on a unix system.