Re: Multiple magnets, one zone, EOL resistor. Never works!

["Allan Waghalter" <awaghalter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree 100% with using GOOP!  It will hold a loose shoe sole in place!

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The best glue I've found is GOOP it's not like silicon which never will
> stick on in the same place or falls off because of temperature (usually
> too
> cold)...you can buy Goop at Home Depot or anywhere actually...I swear by
> the
> stuff. It is somekind of silicone but it dries faster and harder and
> CLEAR.
>
> Never really had problems with something shorting out a panel though.
>
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> "Total nerd" <geekboy0001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | Hah!  You got me.
> | Anyway, there were TWO problems I finally figured out:
> | First, I stuck a resistor at the panel and it still read open.  So,
> | since it's a little expander module, I removed the unit from the wall
> | and put it under heavy lights and looked very closely at the contacts.
> | There was a piece of something (wire possibly?) jammed between the
> | contacts!  I removed that and it worked so far.  But, the long 50' span
> | of window switches still read open all the time.  So, I shorted each
> | one at a time and determined that the second one was bad.  I cut it
> | out, replaced it, and re-soldered each connection and now it's fine.
> | Goddam incredible.  I bet guys that do this every day must find all
> | sorts of crap shorting out the panel... dog hair, mice, roaches,
> | joints, whatever.
> | One thing I did also notice is two of the window magnets slipping off
> | the metal part of the Andersen windows.  I guess that tape doesn't
> | stick very well. I tried a dab of silicone DAP but that didn't work
> | well either.  I suppose I'm just going to Super Glue the darn things.
> | What do you guys use to make sure they never fall off?
> |
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