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Vent: That wireless sensor on the Smith job gave me grief
Had a DSC wireless window sensor at a house in Austin last week that kept dropping signal after I mounted it. Turns out a metal stud inside the wall was blocking it, and I had to re-run everything with a wired unit instead. Anyone else run into weird interference from random building materials?
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ross.felix20d agoMost Upvoted
That "kept dropping signal" part hit close to home. A buddy of mine put a wireless sensor in his own garage door at his new house. He spent THREE HOURS digging into the receiver settings and swapping batteries before he figured out the problem. Turned out the damn thing was positioned directly behind a big metal storage shelf that was basically a giant signal blocker. He had to move the whole thing to the opposite side of the door frame before it would connect consistently. It's wild how everyday stuff like metal shelving can mess with these things more than brick walls sometimes.
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jenny_coleman20d ago
Guess my superpower is finding every metal stud in a house.
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the_rose16d ago
You ever notice how those metal studs are always in the weirdest spots too lol. Like I had a baby monitor that kept cutting out and I traced it back to the metal frame in the ceiling above the crib. Moved the camera three inches to the left and it worked perfect. Sometimes it's not even the big obvious metal stuff either.
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