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[ChuckV]

I am looking at putting a system in using DS10 contacts.  The home is a summer home and is in South Dakota. It is unheated in the winter.  Temps will get to the    -30's sometimes.  Anyone know how well these type of units would work in low Temperature? 

[bitman]

I have one on my unheated garage door @ 9800 feet up in the wintery rockies of colorado.

Works fine. Year 'round.

I also have a ms16a on the side of the house where in summer it can go over 100 sunlit degrees at -30 in the dead of winter.

It has worked for years.
Amazing. Nothing else does.

[pconroy]

I have one on my unheated garage door @ 9800 feet up in the wintery rockies of colorado.

That reminds me - we were camping in Winter Park last week and as I'm lying there I started to wonder if you could set up a security perimeter around your campsite using motion sensors and an X10 security system? 
 

I mean - scatter some motion sensors around and wait for a bear to waltz into your campsite.
I guess I'd just have to hope that the siren going off scares him, rather than give him a reason to bite into *that* tent.

 

[dave w]

That reminds me - we were camping in Winter Park last week and as I'm lying there I started to wonder if you could set up a security perimeter around your campsite using motion sensors and an X10 security system? 
 

I mean - scatter some motion sensors around and wait for a bear to waltz into your campsite.

http://headlines.verizon.com/headlines/portals/headlines.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=headlines_portal_page__article&_article=2998458

Headline reads: PIEZO SIREN CONTRAPTION MADE BEAR GO NUTS . 

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Oh!  Humor!  Arrr... arrrr.   
 

[pconroy]

That reminds me - we were camping in Winter Park last week and as I'm lying there I started to wonder if you could set up a security perimeter around your campsite using motion sensors and an X10 security system? 
 

I mean - scatter some motion sensors around and wait for a bear to waltz into your campsite.

http://headlines.verizon.com/headlines/portals/headlines.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=headlines_portal_page__article&_article=2998458

Headline reads: PIEZO SIREN CONTRAPTION MADE BEAR GO NUTS . 

 


Yeah that's been on all the news here in CO.
There are no Grizzly's out here, we're told.  But lot'sa black bears.
I've read you've got a shot at beating off a black bear.  Not much, but a shot.

I've read you've got no such thing with a griz.


There's this DOW Advisory that made the rounds:


The Forest Service has issued a BEAR WARNING in the national forests for this summer. They're urging everyone to protect themselves by wearing bells and carrying pepper spray.

Campers should be alert for signs of fresh bear activity, and they should be able to tell the difference between Black Bear dung and Grizzy Bear dung.

Black Bear dung is rather small and round. Sometimes you can see fruit seeds and/or squirrel fur in it.

Grizzly Bear dung has bells in it, and smells like pepper spray


 

[bitman]

 

[dave w]

 

Guess I'm gonna have to put on a Depends before reading anymore pconroy post.   

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

 

 

[HA Dave]