I have a wireless Yale alarm, battery operated. I dont have a need to use it often but find the batteries in one particular PIR only lasts approx 6 months, the others maybe 18 months. This PIR is passed multiple times a day, so my question is, even though the alarm is not turned on does the PIR use battery power everytime someone passes it.
Of course - battery power is required to run the PIR sensor, whether or not it senses anything. Perhaps that particular one has been set for higher sensitivity, requiring more power.
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Alarm on or off, will make no difference to the PIR. Every time the PIR is triggered, it will report that it has been triggered to the main alarm unit. Therefore the PIR will have the same battery consumption whether the main alarm is on or off.
If it concerns you, you might consider covering that PIR with some material which prevents it from detecting (or turning it out of sight) and removing the material when it is turned on.
Possibly because its wireless it only transmit if it detects something. The PIR circuit is low power and works 100% of the time and the transmitter requires extra power which is taken from the battery on every movement detection. One sensor sees little movement hence taking less power and has a longer battery life whilst the other sensors make more transmissions and has a shorter battery life.
That very much depends on whether the device simply sends a signal down a wire or whatever, or whether it actually controls a relay or something like that. Its an unanswerable question. Brian
If its wireless then one supposes it needs to power a transmitter every time it operates? Brian
Or do the sensible thing and used wired ones. ;-)
Has it been configured to light up its little LED? Wireless PIRs can be configured either way (you need the LED for walk tests and so forth) but they should normally be configured off to preserve the batteries. I have a fully wireless system and the batteries easily last a year.
I am not aware of being able to configure it to off (I will check that), having said that it will flash when the battery is low. The LED does not normally flash when the alarm system is not armed.
I have today covered it with a piece of paper for now. The alarm is only used maybe 4 weeks in the year so it was a pain having to disarm the alarm etc to replace the batteries when rarely used.
The dog makes enough noise if anyone comes near the house when its occupied. :-)
You bought a system that can only take wireless sensors? Silly boy.
You think wrong, then.
Time to learn to read and understand Jim. It's never too late.
Thanks for confirming you are so stupid you can't even imagine an alarm that can use both wireless and wired sensors. How do you find your way around with that tunnel vision?
Of course I do also realise wiring up an alarm would be beyond you.
In my house is an ethernet network and a wi-fi network connected (ultimately) to the same router. Is this a clue?
If the Yale Wireless System can't also use wired switches then it is a very badly designed system. A bit of research confirms that. I would not want a system which could only work with wireless devices. Hybrid systems do exist.
Because then there wouldn't be the problem of the sensor batteries going flat. Simples. Like your mind.
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