Re: Garage Door Opener keypad recommendations

[George <no.geodosch.spam@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:40:04 -0800, Jim thoughfully wrote:

>> It seems some thieves have gotten into the habit of using sledges or
>> some such to break the rollers off the bottom panels of the doors and
>> folding said panels up out of the way thus gaining access.
>>
>> At least that's the way it was explained to me.-
>
> Here, on some commercial buildings, they punch in the lower sections of
> the door with the bumper of a vehicle. That's why, in higher security
> requirement jobs, I always suggest a Photo electric eye across the
> overhead door. In some cases on commercial jobs and sometimes
> residential jobs, if the interior environment will allow it, I'll put in
> a dual tech motion detector. Sentrol (or whatever they're called now)
> has an excellent dualtech with controlled range adjustment so that if
> the door is metal it wont pick up the microwave bounce or will it
> penetrate a fiberglass or wooden door .... elemiating false trips.

I'm going to look into that dual tech motion detector.  There's an
outdoor PIR in the garage, but it has a history of falses, the cause of
which I've never been able to determine.