Slightly OT: shed burglar alarms

 The cold has killed my battery-driven alarm. I'm reinstalling mains in
my new shed and would like to have a mains-driven burglar alarm. Any
suggestions for a reliable one?

All ideas gratefully received.

Hugh

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Hugh Newbury

www.evershot-weather.org

 On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:05:25 +0000, Hugh Newbury wrote:


Mains adpater for your battery one?

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Cheers
Dave.

 On 16/12/10 10:27, Dave Liquorice wrote:

Trouble is it doesn't really work very well anyway! So I'm after a new
one that does.

But thanks for your reply anyhow.

Hugh

 


If you have a home alarm system( if not,  Y not! ) you could cover  the shed
as  an appendix  to it.
Just a length of wire and an extra sensor to be  purchased.

Regards
Pete
www.thecanalshop.com

 On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:35:28 -0000, Pete wrote:


'cause 'e doesn't live a pikey area?


The physical side is that simple, though ideally the cable should
still be physically secure if accessable without entering a protected
zone.

But the shed needs to have an active alarm system when the house is
fully occupied, it can't be on a "24hr" zone as you want to be able
to access the shed... It's needs it's own independant zone so it can
still be active withe the house occupied and also if not active and
the main alarm set become active or perhaps not. You might be alone
working in the shed all day and want to set the house alarm and not
the shed...

You could have a seperate panel in the shed that is connected to a
24hr zone in the house panel of course so that the house alarm is
triggered by the shed alarm but you can access the house or shed
independantly.

IMHO most alarm problems are sensor related rather than panel.
Spiders/insects getting into/crawling over PIR's. PIR's seeing sudden
changes in heat due to the sun popping out from behind a cloud.
Corrosion of terminals causing breaks in cricuits or changes in
resistance, etc.

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Cheers
Dave.