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    Touch contacts help

    Quite a drive, indeed. I don't think I ever got any farther east than Grenada. As far as I know, I never even heard Valencian spoken. I'm curious about whether I would have understood it, back when I was fluent in Spanish. That was quite awhile ago, más años de los que me gusta recordar. I see...
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    Touch contacts help

    As always, brand name and model number of the sensor would make it a lot easier to advise you. I am an experienced alarm systems technician, but I'm only familiar with wireless equipment used in the USA. All the wireless sensor/transmitters used here already have screw terminals built into the...
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    Need a solution for a sensitive sound sensor

    For a Scot, you seem to know a lot about us on this side of the pond....:D
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    Need a solution for a sensitive sound sensor

    Sound sensors pick up: Wind (not really wind--you can't see or hear wind, but you see and hear all the leaves and stuff it rustles) Rain falling on whatever's around (trees? shrubbery?) the sound sensor. I 'spect the sound sensor doesn't have the filter to distinguish between wind, rain and...
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    Please help with alarm panel

    Afterthought: @James, I hope I didn't make the situation sound hopeless if you don't have the Installer Code, or can't find it. The next step would be to try the default code, 5555, which might have been left unchanged. If that doesn't work, we can talk about a hardware hack as one...
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    Please help with alarm panel

    No, read the thread again, Tha. I'm not sure how you got a 30 second maximum from it, but 30 seconds is about the minimum exit delay you can program into a panel these past few years. Some panels won;'t let you have less than 45. The industry is trying to reduce false alarms caused by customer...
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    Please help with alarm panel

    I assume you have a DSC PC1555, since I don't know of any other panel with that number. Two questions: (1) Do you have your Installer Code? This is a different code from your Master or User's Code. It's not impossible to program without it, but it's a major undertaking. You would have to...
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    RF sensor to detect cat

    Josephine, it's pretty easy to rig a sensor to let you know when your neighborly cat is visiting. Unfortunately, the hard part of motion detection is finding a sensor that alerts you only when your neighborly cat is visiting. Whatever you use will likely alert you when your window is visited by...
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    Light my lamps please!

    Also good idea but if you're staying with batteries rather than use a wall wart, I would switch to D Cell rechargeables if the AA's are giving out that quickly. D Cell holders are reasonably cheap.
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    Light my lamps please!

    I just searched "3 VDC power supply" I just searched "3 VDC power supply" on eBay and got 1611 hits. They looked like mostly wall-warts. Alternately, a homemade 3VDC isn't that hard to put together from components if OP wants to go that route.
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    Wireless wind vane alert

    My guess is that Braam doesn't want the spraying to start the first instant the wind speed registers as zero. I don't know how winds work there, but I think in most places, it dies gradually and vacillates, and a given location will reach zero speed a few times before it's actually done for the...
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    Comedy Thread

    That's hilarious!! Sad to say, I probably know people who won't be able to figure out why it wouldn't work. :confused:
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    HELP!!! I have a fault -- Read me FIRST

    As long as this thread has ---bumped into the New Posts List..... It would be a big help to me if people would name what they're having a problem with, IN THE THREAD TITLE. I check in here most days and look at the New Posts List, but I usually pass over most new posts because I rarely have...
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    Type of sensor for project

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/18-Paper-Cutter-A4-To-B7-Wood-Base-Guillotine-Page-Trimmer-Blade-Scrap-Booking/282624282179
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    Finishing touches on motion alarm

    I've looked at this thread a few times, but stayed off it because the OP seemed to want to re-invent the wheel for himself; and I don't want to be "that guy" who tells hobbyists that "It's already been done, and the commercial product is better than anything you can make in your garage." I...
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    Alarm Systems

    @kellys_eye, I'm a senior alarm technician (I believe they may be called "field engineers" in the UK?) here in the USA, specifically in the Washington DC area, which includes Maryland (MD) and Virginal (VA) suburbs for at least 50 miles out. I've also installed and serviced alarm systems in New...
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    What to do with old lead free solder?

    I love freebies but the shipping across the pond makes it too expensive. :)
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    Alarm Systems

    Probably, yes, assuming that your motion is like 99+% of the motion sensors installed in homes. The coverage of most (properly installed) motion sensors is "out-and-down", i.e., anywhere from 25 to 40 ft out from the sensor, in a fan pattern, and down. Most motions are designed to be mounted...
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    This might be a fun disscussion :)

    Sorry, Dave. I'll reserve exotic script for private conversations in future. Good thing I didn't try it in Russian! :eek:
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    The new types of IOT

    Sadly, more and more consumers are that kind of naive, trusting fool. Internet access to home alarm systems is becoming more popular every year. Much easier to circumvent a lock (like forcing a window open) than to circumvent an alarm system---until, of course, you link your system to the...
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