Abstract:
An installation method for security switches located in door jambs and connection into security system wiring is provided together with a mounting fixture for simplifying the installation. To avoid wall damage, with cylindrically packaged security switches inserted snugly in a hole drilled part way through a door jamb a few inches from the floor, an installation fixture holding a drill at an angle is inserted into the switch mounting hole for drilling at a desired angle a system wire passageway hole into the switch mounting hole wall to extending downwardly through the floor. Another drill held in the fixture at a different angle permits routing of the mounting hole wall form a wire transit channel axially adjacent to an inserted switch for passing the system wires back to connect with the security switch. Thus, after drilling a switch mounting hole, the fixture is inserted thereinto and a wire passageway hole is drilled at a downwardly slanting angle through the floor for connection thereunder into a security control system. Then the fixture, which comprises a cylindrical barrel that abuts the switch mounting hole with a stud extending from each barrel end for entering the switch mounting hole, is reversed using the other stud for inserting a routing drill at a different angle to rout out a wiring channel from the wire passageway entrance backward to the rear of the security switch.