Re: Snow load evaluation

[Beamer Smith <beamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Beamer Smith <beamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Anybody doing anything automated in terms of detecting an excessive snow
>>load on a structure's roof?   I saw a news report about upstate NY where a
>>guy said "when your doors begin to stick, that's when it's time to clear the
>>snow off the roof.  It's good to know one of the warning signs but surely
>>there's got to be a better way!
>
>Less tech than the others but you hang a length of steel pipe inside a
>slightly larger plastic pipe... (use wire so it doesn't stretch) a
>quarter of an inch above a pair of contacts... when the roof sinks
>that quarter of an inch the contacts are closed and what ever you
>attached them to responds... low tech = light... high tech = sensor
>that alerts a computer that dials a phone number that alerts the
>media.. or whom ever.
>n'est pas?
>
>Beamer Smith
>Yes *that* Beamer Smith

Oh and do it in the attic where the wifes visitors won't see it... ;)