Differences Commander 2000 3000?

[dpowell3854]

Great that I found this place now hopefully someone can help me.
I currently have a commander 3000 installed in my house. I am going to be moving soon and wanted to ensure that I had a similar alarm for the new house. I purchased a Commander 2000 on ebay primarily for the siren since it's hard to remove it from my current home. Anyway I wondered what the difference is in the 2000 and 3000?

I noticed that the 2000 I bought on Ebay is 17 zone. Any way to check what zones the 2000 is?

I love the alarm primarily because I can program it and use a low cost monitoring service. I have all the door and window sensors I need as well as remote alarm panels for the garages etc.

Thanks for your help.

[Chucky]

I used to install these 10 years ago. This panel can handle 17 wireless zones and 1 hardwired zone if I remember correctly. The 3000 is the same for zones 8-17. Other than that I dont personaly remember what the differences were??? In fact..I can remember using a 2000 manual to program a 3000 but, in answer to your question....I think its very comparable to what you already have.

Here's the manual you can download:

http://www.adt.com/wssmbiz/images/uploads/Commander_2000.pdf

[dpowell3854]

Thanks for your help

[suemarkp]

I don't know how much you want to spend, but I believe this alarm is similar to what you have and costs $200 with a minimal set of sensors:

http://www.norcoalarms.com/ezStore123/DTProductZoom.asp?productID=630

The nice thing about the site above is that they have the (three) manuals on the "details" page. So you can read about everything before you buy to make sure it will do what you want. I bought two systems because I needed more sensors and FOBs and you end up paying only about $20 more to get an entire spare base unit.