Re: replacement windows and alarm contacts

[G. Morgan <alarmprosnail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: Re: replacement windows and alarm contacts
Newsgroup: comp.home.automation
=> jim.griffin@xxxxxxxxx <=  wrote:

>Graham,
>  The contacts will be recessed into the window frames, and the magnets
>installed in the sash's.  However, between the window frame and the
>sash is a gap in which the slide moves vertically to accommodate the
>opening and closing of the window.  There are slides on both sides
>which the sash clips in.
>
>My concern is with the gap between the sash and the frame (channel in
>which the slide travels).   The gap is 3/4-1".   Will stronger magnets
>work as previously suggested, or is there an alternative way of
>installing the contacts?


Without seeing it I don't know.  Rare earth magnets are the strongest.




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