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RE: [ECS] Mailbox Sensor David Rabin Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:03:22 -0500

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what did you do ?
i was going to run 2 conductor low voltage direct burial malibu light wire
and put a contact (security system type) on the mail box door to a
powerflash in the house so when the door opens it sends an x10 signal.

david

At 11:01 PM 8/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Frank!
>
>Is it possible for you to do a hard wired sensor?  That's what I did, and it
>works 100% reliably.  Also, when I ran the wire, I ran multi-pair so I could
>mount a speaker in the box for messages like "Thanks You", "Merry
>Christmas", and of course, the obligatory evil laugh at Halloween....
>
>Cheers!
>
>Michael David
>michael@michaeldavid.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Frank Herron  Charlotte NC [mailto:fherron@VNET.IBM.COM]
>Sent:	Monday, August 17, 1998 8:14 PM
>To:	ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
>Subject:	[ECS] Mailbox Sensor
>
>Tried a couple of Mail Box Sensors and they were not acceptable.  Missed
>Mail,
>false alarms etc.  Mark, what are you using?  I saw you are Innovonics
>Dealer.
>Can you send me some model numbers and prices for what I would need to make
>this work?  Mail box only about 150 feet from house.  Any one care to share
>what technology they are using?  Would love to go hardwired, but that is out
>of
>the question.  Thanks, Frank
>
>
>

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