Re: Newbie questions

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow... a whole 200-300 bucks to protect  your family?
I bet your refrigerator cost 1500 to protect 100 bucks worth of food.




<seafh@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Rich wrote:
| > If you have this outlook why are you installing a system anyway? There
must
| > be a reason you are spending $500.00. Safety, Security, Early warning,
Evan
| > a door chime so you know when the wife left the dog out.
| >
| > Oh the insurance discounts. Maybe the smoke detector that went off at 3
AM
| > and called the fire dept while you were sleeping. It's worth it to have
it
| > monitored because you have no clue.
|
| Thanks for the response.  However, I am not sure I understand you.  I
| am concerned about the effectiveness of the burglar alarms from what I
| read, so I raised the questions.  May be most burglars don't cut phone
| lines before they entered houses?  May be many systems have a built-in
| battery that will power the siren and not easily taken on etc.
| Actually, I am not planing to spend $500, more like $200-$300 for one
| of those wireless system from online site.  I am not going to count on
| window/door sensors, but rather on motion detector for protection while
| nobody is home (the main situation for protection).
| Actually, I have one more question regarding those motion detector:
|
| (3) Those pet immune motion detectors: are these thermal based detector
| such that they only detect living things with thermal radiation, such
| that the motion of a non-living object won't trigger them (such as a
| curtain blown by wind thru a window etc.)?
|
| Thanks again.
|