Re: Problem with Visonic K9-80

["Russell Brill" <russwbrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would also add, most pet immune motions are slow to detect human targets.

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Sounds like it's working fine.
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> Leave the room empty for 5 or so minutes (no people, no animals) then walk
> test it.
> PIRs are generally less sensitive when you move directly towards it,
> rather
> than across the detection fields.
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> <meir410@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | Hello,
> |
> | I purchased and installed the Visonic K9-80 based on recommendations
> | that I found in this forum. However, I am having problems with it in
> | that it appears to not go off when it should. I can often walk right
> | down the middle of the room right across it's field of view and it
> | will not go off. Other times it will. Once, I had a person and 2 dogs
> | walk in front of the detector and it didn't go off. I can not find any
> | pattern for when it detects me and when it does not. I believe the
> | coverage left to right is fine because when I'm higher up on the
> | stairs all the way to the side of the room it always picks me up. The
> | detector is mounted 8 feet off the ground (floor to bottom of
> | detector) in the corner of the room. The sensitivity is set to 2
> | (middle). I have the vertical adjustment set to 8 feet. The only thing
> | that comes to mind is that somehow the verticle adjustment is wrong
> | and it thinks that I am below 3 feet and is ignoring me. But I did
> | adjust the verticle adjustment as outlined in the manual. Any
> | suggestions or could this just be a dud?
> |
> | Thanks!
> |
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