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Heads up on those new wireless sensors from a job in Austin
I mean, I was getting constant false alarms from a batch of them, and the signal strength looked fine. I ended up wrapping a single layer of aluminum foil around the back of the sensor body, not the antenna, and it stabilized completely. Has anyone else had to shield a sensor like that?
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the_casey6mo ago
Man, that sounds exactly like the headache I had last month. I spent a whole weekend chasing ghosts from a sensor in a hallway. The foil trick is a lifesaver. It's crazy that the housing itself seems to pick up enough interference to cause that. I keep a roll of heavy duty foil in my kit now just for this.
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jordanc326mo ago
Right? I've got a whole drawer of foil now, like I'm prepping for a weird tech apocalypse.
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morgan.logan6mo ago
Ugh, that weekend sounds brutal. I know that exact feeling of wasting hours on a problem that seems impossible. It's wild how something as simple as foil can fix a high-tech issue. I started doing the same thing after my third phantom trigger, just lining every housing. Makes you wonder why they don't build them with better shielding from the start.
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