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Re: House central locking


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: House central locking
  • From: "Patrick Lidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:18:19 -0000
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> These look pretty good though - battery operation is both a boon
(no
wires
> to run) and a pain in the **RSE (dead battery = locked out of
house??)
>
> but at least they are backed up by a "normal" key operation
- so
the
point
> about about dead batteries = locked out at least shouldn't be a
worry, and
> my luddite wife can continue to insist on using the
"old-fashioned"
method
> of gaining ingress for as long as she wishes to.

I was thinking it would be relatively straight forward to modify them
to run off a mains supply and use the batteries for backup...

> Incidentally Patrick, I haven't seen anything in any of the press
since the
> original programme was aired (but then I don't take any of the
popular
> press) - what/where etc. have you seen?

It was covered in gushing terms in yesterdays on-line Mirror and Sun.
Sadly they don't seem to archive their stories... the Mirror (IIRC)
referred to the guys in the documentary as "scientists". Ha ha!

Patrick


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