Re: Napco GEM-RP1CAe2 keypads

["alarman" <nospam@xxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:
 > For a while .... I thought that it could be caused by a "draft" that
> exists in some walls. As doors and windows open and close or the wind
> blows strong, frame houses "breath". In days past, before fire
> retardent was required in wire holes, it was more common that you
> could feel the air coming out of the wall where the wire harness came
> out. I started using insulation where I could and calking when I had
> to. The insulation sometimes didn't work because the wall cavity was
> empty so there was nothing to hold my insulation near the hole and the
> clulking is difficult to apply so it seals the hole good and makes it
> difficult to service. I found various ways to do it but eventually
> through the years,  I found that even some keypads that I'd done that
> way .... were still failing. I don't do that anymore but the keypads
> don't fail that often, so I just let it be.

You could use those pre-formed clay pads electricians use to quiet their
boxes in party walls.
http://www.soundproofingcompany.com/products/putty_pads/
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js

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