Re: Unusual Challenge

[RTS <gafa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/22/2021 7:52 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
> Ok Guys!!!  Here you go.  After reading you should
> be ABLE to get a good nights sleep.  :-)
>
> And now for the rest of the story!!
>
> I had installed this setup in 2013 and it worked great with
> some minor issues over the years.  Batteries, switch, etc.
> There were some reports of missed signals but was never sure
> if it was the RF signal loss or the human ear missing the
> burp of the sounder.  It has been just recently that they
> have know that it has been more of an issue and called me
> back to help work out a different plan to get the signals
> better so that they would not miss a customer in the showroom.
>
> When I got there last week as I said I checked the batteries
> and they were a bit low so I replaced with new.  Not that it
> made much difference but it did miss a signal and I thought is
> was due to the fact that I triggered the door to fast.  Assuming
> that the receiver or transmitter had some delay built in for
> excessive trips.
>
> I moved the transmitter to the shop and it worked every time while
> there.  Placed the transmitter back in the attic above the showroom
> and I put the transmitter back in the attic above the showroom where
> it was but staff was in a meeting so I could not test.
>
> Was told later that they tried it and it did not work a total of 3 times
>
> Now the receiver has a wire about 7" long as a antenna.  I have
> it hanging over the edge of a window so that the walls would not block
> the RF signal. The Transmitter is in the attic space on a vertical
> 2x4.  The only thing that might block the signal would be the plywood
> and asphalt shingles on the roof, 70' of distance, bug screen and glass
> window.
>
> Needless to say this is a intermittent problem that is NOW not working!!
>
> Now for the revel!!!
>
> It was mentioned the the bug screen was a metal mesh type.
> And I was asked if that could be causing the problem.  I said
> that I did not think it would but, it certainly would not have any
> bad effects at this time of year to remove the screen.  Well
> they did in the afternoon and did another test and the system
> burped the horn 13 out of 13 times.  ð??® WHAT!!!!
>
> They did this with the window open as well.  They are going to test
> with the window shut the next day to see what the results will be.
>
> They tested with the window closed the and it worked just fine 5 times.
>
> I did some searching online and metal mesh screens as far as I can
> find are not an issue with RF.  That is unless I am involved!!!
>
> What I also found out was that this window is where they put a small
> A/C unit during the summer.  Needless to say they have to remove the
> wire mesh screen to install the A/C and then they re-install the
> screen when they take the A/C out.  If they remember to do so.
>
> So this problem is sometimes there and sometimes not there!!!
> a.k.a.  A intermittent problem!!  Now SOLVED!!!
>
> I strongly suggested that they get the screen frame re-screened with
> a NYLON MESH screen!!!
>
> Hope you enjoyed the story!!
>
> Les
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Wanting stories..
Well way back in the day of Transcience radio systems.
We did a lake house with their system for doors, windows etc...
attached to an admeco 1022 panel and a 612 tape dialer
((yea, yea,  kind of old))
any way,  every thing worked fine for several years..
Then one day the owner called in a panic...
Seems his daughter (she had grown up by then) had slipped
out one night and the system didn't go off..
Well we checked the system, sure enough nothing worked.
(unless it was a line of sight receiver to transmitter..)
Long story short,  they had re papered the entire house
with Mylar wall paper...
They had turned the entire house into a faraday cage....
Only cure was to hard wire the house...

Never over look Faraday,  when he said it blocked RF, he wasn't
kidding...
RTS
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*Rocky T. Squirrel, esq.*