Re: EOLR Depate

[DrPhil <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L. Bass wrote:

>>Have you ever had the resistor corrode out and
>>cause false alarm when the switch is mounted
>>low on the side of the door frame and the wire is drilled down into a
>>crawl space below?
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> 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.

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>>Moisture from the crawl space works its way up
>>from below and causes the resistor to corrode...
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> Along with every steel or copper component of every system in the walls
> throughout the house???  Where do you install that this is happening.  Not
> saying you're olsonizing but please elaborate.

I wouldn't know .  I only serviced the alarm.