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From: bcsaic!carroll@cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: For Telecom-ers Who Live up North
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Date: 18 Dec 90 20:17:14 GMT
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In article <15307@accuvax.nwu.edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
writes:

>Hook one of those $99 radio shack alarm dialers to a thermostat and
>water sensor.  If a pipe breaks or the heat fails, you'll get called.

	For not much more than $99 you can get the guts of a complete
burglar alarm system that will provide the functionality you describe.

	I paid $140 for an Arrowhead Spartan alarm controller that is
capable of running six alarm "zones", one of which could easily be
connected to pipe freeze sensors.

	Of course, you can't get them at Radio Shack, and they aren't
meant to be installed by consumers (though anyone who graduated from
the fifth grade has the requisite technical skills).


Jeff Carroll
carroll@atc.boeing.com