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That false alarm zone that ate my whole afternoon in Birmingham
Spent 3 hours tracing what I thought was a bad resistor on a panel but it turned out to be a spider nest in the motion detector. Has anyone else had bugs or critters set off zones and waste your time?
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clairen8528d ago
I mean yeah bugs in detectors are annoying but three hours on a spider nest? That's kinda on you for not checking the easy stuff first before diving into the panel. People act like a little troubleshooting time is the end of the world.
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phoenix_grant3427d ago
Nah, three hours is rough even if you factor in the bugs. If you're ripping apart panels before spotting a nest, that's just bad troubleshooting flow.
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nancy81728d ago
Three hours on a spider nest? That's kinda on you" - @clairen85, I hear you, but those little buggers can hide in the corner of a motion detector lens and you'd never see it until you pull the whole thing apart. I had a similar issue last year with a moth that got stuck right behind the IR window on a DSC unit. Took me two hours of swapping sensors and checking wires before I noticed a tiny leg sticking out. Sometimes the obvious stuff isn't that obvious when you're focused on a bad board.
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