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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Works as promised for a good price
Needed an unmonitored alarm for lake cabin. This works as advertised with the control panel. Highly recommend. Amazon has best price I could find on these by large margin
Published 9 months ago by D. Ludwig
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Works as intended
First of all, to use this you need a Control Center GE 45129 Choice-Alert Wireless Control Center.
A few things to note that were not apparent until I bought this and a Control Center:
- the motion sensor can connect to the Control Center in two ways, either in one of the first three Zones (1, 2, 3) or in the fourth Zone (4) and the Control...
Published 12 months ago by A. D. Krauss
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Not Dependable, October 25, 2009
This review is from: GE 45132 Choice-Alert Wireless Motion Sensor Alarm System (Tools & Hardware)
The motion sensor was not capable of transmitting a signal to the control center which was located only 60 feet away and only one exterior wall in its path. The wall consisted of vinyl siding 2 windows and a fiberglass door with glass in it. My advice is to buy a more powerful motion sensor which undoubtly will cost more but will be dependable.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Works as intended, August 22, 2009
This review is from: GE 45132 Choice-Alert Wireless Motion Sensor Alarm System (Tools & Hardware)
First of all, to use this you need a Control Center GE 45129 Choice-Alert Wireless Control Center.
A few things to note that were not apparent until I bought this and a Control Center:
- the motion sensor can connect to the Control Center in two ways, either in one of the first three Zones (1, 2, 3) or in the fourth Zone (4) and the Control Center has a different behavior in these two categories.
- In Zone 1, 2, or 3: the motion sensor can only operate in Alarm mode, not in Monitoring mode. Other sensors apparently can be setup to either Alert, Chime, or just show an indicator light for its assigned Zone based on a switch on the Control Center (the switch has settings of Alert / Chime / Off); this setting is applicable when the Control Center is disarmed (not in AWAY or HOME alarm mode). But the Motion Sensor DOES NOT work in this way - it ONLY WORKS in AWAY or HOME alarm mode, when assigned to Zone 1, 2 or 3.
- When assigned to Zone 4: the motion sensor triggers an Alert only, which ignores the Alert / Chime / Off switch. The Alert cannot be silenced, only muted once it starts.
Since the alarm is overkill for what we want (monitoring our sleepwalking child), we plan on keeping it in Zone 4, and unplugging the Control Center without batteries in it to shut if off during the day. The Alert itself should be sufficient to wake us up.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
slow to set off alarm, June 14, 2010
This review is from: GE 45132 Choice-Alert Wireless Motion Sensor Alarm System (Tools & Hardware)
this motion detector works really well at detecting any movement but then doesn't set off the alarm for about 30 seconds, all the while beeping as if to give an intruder directions to the home unit so he can destroy it before the alarm actually sounds. the time between activation of the motion detector and the alarm needs to be shortened.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Wish It Worked Like GE Says It Does, February 5, 2010
This review is from: GE 45132 Choice-Alert Wireless Motion Sensor Alarm System (Tools & Hardware)
I bought two of these motion sensors. After initiating communications between the sensors and the base unit I found two disturbing things. First, they do NOT communicate up to 150 feet - I was lucky (after moving the base unit around a dozen times) to get about 35 feet with fresh batteries with nothing more than two drywall walls between them. Not very useful and this forces you to put the base unit in potentially awkward places. Second, as far as being weather-resistant? I found that they stopped working when their temperatures dropped below 35 degrees. So, unless you live in Florida, my observations indicate that these are not useful anywhere but in a nice, dry, warm environment. I did find the construction of the sensors to be adequate. But I must take issue with the base unit... it's cheaply built and does not function exactly like the manual states. Further, YOU CANNOT USE THESE motion sensors in ANY mode except for "Armed When You Leave The House Mode"... so I have to question, what's the point then! Final opinion: not a well thought out product, cheap, doesn't work well, and well, you get what you pay for and I'm upset I wasted my time and money on these. They're pretty much JUNK.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Works as promised for a good price, December 10, 2009
This review is from: GE 45132 Choice-Alert Wireless Motion Sensor Alarm System (Tools & Hardware)
Needed an unmonitored alarm for lake cabin. This works as advertised with the control panel. Highly recommend. Amazon has best price I could find on these by large margin
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3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
too sensitive, February 9, 2009
This review is from: GE 45132 Choice-Alert Wireless Motion Sensor Alarm System (Tools & Hardware)
I bought a "system" with 4 motion sensors and a control panel. All works acceptably,but we are using it for the perimeter around the house, and it is set off by cats and foxes.
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