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   Terry Pinnell to Terry Pinnell   
   Re: Suppress transients on old burglar a   
   19 Jun 18 07:24:45   
   
   From: me@somewhere.invalid   
      
   Terry Pinnell  wrote:   
      
   >Before trying your filter I re-assembled in the slight hope that my   
   >removal/replacement (and touching up a couple of joint that looked   
   >mildly suspicious) might have fixed the spurious triggering. I tried a   
   >few dozen times, switching the cupboard lamp on/off as described   
   >earlier, and so far so good!   
   >   
   >Left the temporary sounder in place to try over a few successive nights   
   >and will report back on final outcome.   
      
   >   
   >Thanks for your patient help, which is much appreciated.   
   >   
      
   ***** That last status report was prematurely optimistic. Turned out to   
   be two faulty microswitches, both intermittent. One was a rusted (and   
   greatly weakened) magnet, the other a sticking shed window. And both at   
   the far end of the loop, so many hours before I found them.   
      
   Terry, East Grinstead, UK   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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