Alarm system - too clever by half
 

I've just installed a clever alarm with 2 stage shock protection on the main
door (it's a flat). A whack on the door sets off the sounder for a few
seconds and giving it a kick sets off the main alarm, or that's what I had
intended.

To ice the cake there's a 120dB sounder by the door to make sure a would
be intruder gets the message, it's the sort that modulates, creating a rapid
whok - whok - whok sound that makes your head feel like it is being whok
- whok - whoked with a baseball bat.

Unfortunately it's so loud that the shock sensor thinks WW3 has been
declared and it causes the alarm to latch up and sound continuously.

After a while, I laughed. Stage 1 shock protection is disabled until I sort
out my workaround :-)
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fred

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:46:40 GMT, fred wrote:


After a while, I laughed. Stage 1 shock protection is disabled until I sort
out my workaround :-)

A friend of mine who used to live in an upper floor flat in Birmingham
decided he wanted to fit a very loud burglar alarm.

He managed to track down the company that produces nuclear melt down
warning sounders for nuclear power stations.

He installed this sounder in his flat.

I've never seen it in action, but he said that the sound was so loud
that you wouldn't venture any further than the front door.

Graham

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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:46:40 GMT, fred wrote:


After a while, I laughed. Stage 1 shock protection is disabled until I sort
out my workaround :-)

A friend of mine who used to live in an upper floor flat in Birmingham
decided he wanted to fit a very loud burglar alarm.

He managed to track down the company that produces nuclear melt down
warning sounders for nuclear power stations.

He installed this sounder in his flat.

I've never seen it in action, but he said that the sound was so loud
that you wouldn't venture any further than the front door.

I like it, just my kind of philosophy :-)

Allegedly some spoilsport has legislated limits on the output level of
sounders but I'm doing my best to find the ones that have slipped by the
limit.
--
fred

In article ,
fred wrote:
He installed this sounder in his flat.

I've never seen it in action, but he said that the sound was so loud
that you wouldn't venture any further than the front door.

I like it, just my kind of philosophy :-)

Allegedly some spoilsport has legislated limits on the output level of
sounders but I'm doing my best to find the ones that have slipped by the
limit.

Given the way most go off through faults etc rather than break ins, it's
likely you will be the one to have your hearing damaged...

--
*Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"

Dave Plowman London SW
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
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In article ,
fred wrote:
He installed this sounder in his flat.

I've never seen it in action, but he said that the sound was so loud
that you wouldn't venture any further than the front door.

I like it, just my kind of philosophy :-)

Allegedly some spoilsport has legislated limits on the output level of
sounders but I'm doing my best to find the ones that have slipped by the
limit.

Given the way most go off through faults etc rather than break ins, it's
likely you will be the one to have your hearing damaged...

Possible but it's not in my house . . .
--
fred