alarm switch

[steve]

I require alarm systems for both personal and house.

From seeing various alarm projects, there is no detail about how the
alarm is set off.

For example, a house alarm could be triggered by opening a door.

But the diy circuit notes merely say that power supply will trigger
the alarm on.

There should be a special kind of switch that will sense motion, or
breakage of a (window) latch, etc.

Could anyone please explain.


Yours sincerely


Steve

 

[Jamie]

steve wrote:

I require alarm systems for both personal and house.

From seeing various alarm projects, there is no detail about how the
alarm is set off.

For example, a house alarm could be triggered by opening a door.

But the diy circuit notes merely say that power supply will trigger
the alarm on.

There should be a special kind of switch that will sense motion, or
breakage of a (window) latch, etc.

Could anyone please explain.


Yours sincerely


Steve
I assume you're talking about a car alarm ?

Most of those do power supply sensing among other things.

What this means is, if some one opens the door which would prompt
some electrical device in the car to activate like the doom light, the
alarm unit will detect a power flicker from the lights coming on.

That is just one example.


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[JeffM]

steve wrote:

From seeing various alarm projects,
there is no detail about how the alarm is set off.

This is something that a search engine could easily find for you.

This link points to a site
that has all kinds of answers about this sort of thing.
http://www.google.com/search?q=burglar-alarm+howstuffworks
That is a good term to add to such searches.

There should be a special kind of switch that will sense motion,

That is much more than a "switch".

or breakage of a (window) latch, etc.

That isn't a "switch" either.

http://www.google.com/images?q=window-bug+alarm+OR+security
http://www.google.com/images?q=Traditional-lead-tape+alarm+OR+security+-golf
You will obviously have to buy these.

The old name in alarms is Alarm Device Manufacturing COmpany
http://www.google.com/search?q=ADEMCO
Go poke around their site and those of other such companies.

You could also easily have used a search engine
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=burglar-alarms+-uk
to find out that this is the wrong group for burglar alarms
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.security.alarms

 

[steve]

On May 12, 1:00 am, JeffM <jef...@email.com> wrote:

steve wrote:
From seeing various alarm projects,
there is no detail about how the alarm is set off.

This is something that a search engine could easily find for you.
This link points to a site
that has all kinds of answers about this sort of thing.http://www.google.com/search?q=burglar-alarm+howstuffworks
That is a good term to add to such searches.

There should be a special kind of switch that will sense motion,

That is much more than a "switch".

or breakage of a (window) latch, etc.

That isn't a "switch" either.http://www.google.com/images?q=window-bug+alarm+OR+securityhttp://www.google.com/images?q=Traditional-lead-tape+alarm+OR+securit...
You will obviously have to buy these.

The old name in alarms is Alarm Device Manufacturing COmpanyhttp://www.google.com/search?q=ADEMCO
Go poke around their site and those of other such companies.

You could also easily have used a search enginehttp://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=burglar-alarms+-uk
to find out that this is the wrong group for burglar alarmshttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.security.alarms

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Thanks to everyone for their replies.

Please note that I had mentioned the requirement of a personal alarm
in my post.

My friend works as a social worker in a bad neighbourhood.

He is frail and therefore requires a personal protection device.

I was wondering if a stun device could be made, by collecting energy
in a single electronic part.

Then the energy could be released on the attacker.