Re: EOLR Depate

[DrPhil <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L. Bass wrote:
>>>Nope -- not once in 28 years.  But then again,
>>>I don't recall ever having allowed water to
>>>penetrate a sensor opening.
>>
>>I don't think installing an alarm in a house
>>that is on a lake could be construed as
>>"having allowed moisture to penetrate a
>>sensor opening"   Over the last 20 years
>>this has happened a handful of times or so.
>
>
> I didn't mean to imply that you were doing anything wrong.  Sorry if it
> sounded that way.  What I meant was I always sealed wire holes.

Let me get this striaght.  On a recessed contact drilled down into the
crawl space after you pulled the wire and installed the contact you
would crawl back under the house to all the holes where wire hole was
drilled into crawl from above and seal the holes from below to slow
moisture from wicking up?  Wow you were a good installer.

I mainly
> used recessed contacts for residential which was always the major portion of
> our work.  Properly fitted moisture doesn't get past them.  I wonder why our
> experiences are so different.

I don't think you are understanding what I am saying.  Sealing the
contact has nothing to do with moisture wicking 'up' form the crawl
space below. As a matter of fact it would tend to trap the moisture
coming from below.
	were it moisture from rain then sealing the contact would stop that but
that is not what I am refering to.