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Non Compos Mentis
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Off the grid- Almost
Posts: 10,652
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It's nice to have a bazillion decibels go off if somebody is in the home who doesn't belong there.
We're a ways out, so unless there happened to be a cop nearby, it would take them quite a while to get this far out.
A couple years back there was a rash of night time break-ins in this area into garages with side doors. Garages are not typically included in the alarmed area, and they were stealing tools and food from freezers. I rigged up one of those obnoxious air horns people blast at football games so that if our back door is opened more than an inch or two, the entire neighborhood would be awake.
Our alarm is monitored, but the big deterrent is the "beeeeeeeeeep" when a window or door is opened, letting the perp know it's going to get deafeningly loud in a few seconds.
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