Re: Increasing sensitivity with X10-ActiveEye MS16A

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"frontrun98" <frontrun98.1wbtaq@no-

> I?m just wondering if anyone here may know why over a 3-4 month
> period,
> My X10 motion sensor?s sensitivity level has degraded.
> It?s not the batteries, they have been changed and both measure at
> 1.54v.
>
> I know that they work, because a large body passing the sensor, does
> send the signal.
> I am trying to detect small animals, as it once did.

Ambient temperature affects a PIR's ability to detect motion.  The closer a
body's temperature is to the ambient, the harder it is for a PIR to detect
that body.  I suspect nothing's changed in your ActiveEye - the difference
is probably in the environment it's working in.

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Bobby G.