Visonic PIR Sensors

[gazza_2]

Hi i am currently replacing my old alarm  with a Visonic wireless system but after fitting some of the pet PIR's I am finding they are not very sensitive at all, they do work and I have moved them down the wall a bit but they still don't seem that good. Has any one got any tips or is this normal? Thanks a lot, Gary

[sixwheeledbeast]

They're are not great pickup on the default settings and are useless outside the strict mounting height in the manual.

[gazza_2]

Thanks for that I did not know if i was going wrong somewhere. luckily I am keeping some of the wired ones for the E/E. Thanks again

[al-yeti]

7 minutes ago, sixwheeledbeast said:

They're are not great pickup on the default settings and are useless outside the strict mounting height in the manual.

Do they have a settle down time like the Honeywell , they trigger once in 3 mins something like that?

[gazza_2]

Sorry when you say default setting is there a setting to make them better?

 

[james.wilson]

Its a whole other topic but 'pet' sensors are awful especially the cheap ones

[gazza_2]

al-yeti, that's what I was wondering

 

Are the Visonic one's classed as cheap?

[sixwheeledbeast]

You can lower the pulse count but you'll loose the pet friendly mode.

Yes they are one way, so also sleep for a few minutes in normal operation mode.

It's one way and pet friendly I wouldn't expect much guaranteed protection from it.

[james.wilson]

4 minutes ago, gazza_2 said:

al-yeti, that's what I was wondering

 

Are the Visonic one's classed as cheap?

depends on what you class as cheap. I think so yes, acceptable but low end. A decent hard wired pet tolerant sensor is more than a wireless visonic one. But i dont like them as a theory. If you have pets then peremiter protection is the way to go imho

[gazza_2]

Thanks for that James