Skylink SC-1000 Complete Wireless Alarm System
October 22, 2009 by admin
Filed under Home Security Alarm
- Rolling Code Technology – Leading edge technology
- Provides maximum security and reduces false alarm
- Dials up to 9 different numbers of your choice
- Sends out your personal 40 second message
- Easy installation
Product Description
Skylink Wireless Alarm System… It’s a complete WIRELESS security system that can be installed easily in minutes. It’s ideal for your home, business office, stores, retail operations, wherever security is a concern. And… More >>
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I purchased this product 5 months ago. As of this date, I have not completely installed it. While the installation can be simple, there are too many components to deal with. The tape that comes with it does not hold on all surfaces. I live in an apartment and did not wish to nail or screw in the components. To do so would mean, that I would have to leave the system as a part of the apartment unit. I do not wish to leave the system as it was costly.
Rating: 3 / 5
After reading all the great reviews of this security system here on Amazon I decided to order it for my studio apartment. Unfortunately, I have not been able to set it up due to the fact that the screw on the back of the motion sensor is screwed down so tight I cannot get the back of the motion sensor off in order to put the battery inside. Due to this fact, trying to set up this security system has been an extremely frustrating experience.
Rating: 2 / 5
The Skylink Sc 1000 worked fine, however, the accompanying sensors did not work properly. They either failed to link with the command module or they operated when I moved them in a certain angle. Setup was attempted twice with the same results.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was so excited to get this alarm system. We got it out & I realized that it is made out of poor quality. I’ve kept it because I felt I had no other option. FYI The alarm system is so loud wear earplugs to set it up.
Rating: 2 / 5
After reading the various stellar reviews on Skylink, we decide buy Skylink to replace an existing faulty hardwired DSC system that came with the house. The DSC alarm system update to wireless will easily cost many times more because of wireless functionality, and not to mention additional monitoring cost.
The Skylink system came nicely packed in box, undamaged and tested working with various items such as door magnetic sensor, motion sensor, remote. However, the look and feel of various items were just average quality. Don’t expect to be impressed by design – it’s purely functional – and sometimes ugly. It looks very outdated with cream ivory color and cheap plastic casing, flimsy antenna sticking out, rounded molded sides. The color shown in Amazon picture was white – or looks white. The actual items sent were more like cream/ ivory color. The color feels really like a decade old partly because of the cheap resin plastic. I feel that Amazon has misrepresented the item by showing a different color. The first picture posted by reviewer Jim is a more accurate color of the item. It is definitely not white, nor grey.
Items included were sufficient to set up an alarm system for a house less than 2000sqft with two doors. All batteries (9V included) were provided for. Quick instructions were good enough to understand basic function and operations. Included Dialer is more complex and requires more reading. The idea behind this system is great but it needs a better design since alarm system will be placed prominently at the entrance and all the doors. I like the fact that the dialer need not be placed next to the alarm control panel and it can dial up to as many as 9 people with your own pre-recorded message if the alarm goes off.
The greatest difficulty we have is the installation of the door sensor. Our door FRAME has some design contours with bumps/ curve and is not a flat surface. Seems like this is a common door frame if your house is built from the 90s onwards. Because of the contoured design, you cannot mount the magnetic sensor onto the frame as the space between the contour and the edge of the door frame is too narrow to hold the sensor in place. This narrow space is not wide enough to mount the small sensor (I am not even talking about the big transmitter that you can mount near it).
From the Skylink website (also in the manual), it showed an alternate way of mounting the sensor on the outside the door, but that will not work since any intruder will be able to cut the wireless transmitter from outside since the door swing inwards.
We thought about a U shape or L shape bracket to extend from the top so that the sensor can be mounted, and then aligned the pieces together but after visualizing how it can be done, we concluded that it will be very unsightly.
So between saving hundreds or damaging the doorframe with unsightly alarms and thus degrading the value of the house – we decided to return the item without installing any part of it. We tested and they were all working fine out of the box – if only we could install it easily – it might be for someone who needs a functional system and has the right kind of door frames.
To add on – the fact that Amazon dropped the item price by 10% 3 days after I purchased it, also made me decide that I might as well return it since I am unhappy with the color misrepresentation and now, the price drop.
Lesson learned – what you see may not be what you get. The system works – but it may not work for everyone – at least not for me.
Rating: 3 / 5