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Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
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Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
#82This reminds me of a “bug” I found when working for a company that sells package lockers to apartment buildings. We used iPads for the user interface and had monitoring in place to alert us if an iPad went offline.
At only one location with two iPads one would go offline almost every day (but not every day) between 12pm and 1pm, for 10-20 minutes. Never the same time of day, and never the same length of time. It was always the same iPad, the other one on that network stayed online the entire time.
We replaced the iPad and the problem persisted. Finally I got fed up, put my phone on silent, ignored everything, and watched the Dropcam feed for the 2 hours near the usual time. Slowly I saw the sun light up the lockers, eventually shining on the iPad. Ten minutes later, after sitting in direct sunlight, it went offline. As the sun moved, the iPad went back in to shadow and came online on its own.
It was overheating and shutting itself off until it cooled down. The time changed because day lengths change, and the days it didn’t go offline were cloudy.
Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
#83Got a kick out of this gem from the reddit comments: > My S2000 car alarm would be set off whenever I microwaved blueberries. Some experimentation revealed it was anything with excess water. Buying a new microwave solved the issue but I don't like thinking about how poorly shielded the old microwave was. I tried moving the for further from the kitchen or keeping the keys far away to no avail.
Why would someone microwave blueberries?
Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
#84Got a kick out of this gem from the reddit comments: > My S2000 car alarm would be set off whenever I microwaved blueberries. Some experimentation revealed it was anything with excess water. Buying a new microwave solved the issue but I don't like thinking about how poorly shielded the old microwave was. I tried moving the for further from the kitchen or keeping the keys far away to no avail.
Why would someone microwave blueberries?
Making sauce or heating up a muffin, I guess?
Or frozen blueberries, but why would anyone buy frozen blueberries.
Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
#85Got a kick out of this gem from the reddit comments: > My S2000 car alarm would be set off whenever I microwaved blueberries. Some experimentation revealed it was anything with excess water. Buying a new microwave solved the issue but I don't like thinking about how poorly shielded the old microwave was. I tried moving the for further from the kitchen or keeping the keys far away to no avail.
Why would someone microwave blueberries?
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Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
#86Got a kick out of this gem from the reddit comments: > My S2000 car alarm would be set off whenever I microwaved blueberries. Some experimentation revealed it was anything with excess water. Buying a new microwave solved the issue but I don't like thinking about how poorly shielded the old microwave was. I tried moving the for further from the kitchen or keeping the keys far away to no avail.
Why would someone microwave blueberries?
They were frozen... Out of season it is the only way to buy blueberries.
Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
#87Got a kick out of this gem from the reddit comments: > My S2000 car alarm would be set off whenever I microwaved blueberries. Some experimentation revealed it was anything with excess water. Buying a new microwave solved the issue but I don't like thinking about how poorly shielded the old microwave was. I tried moving the for further from the kitchen or keeping the keys far away to no avail.
Why would someone microwave blueberries?
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Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
#88Used to set off car alarms all the time when I had ‘quite hotted up’ Type R Integra years ago, never house alarms though I think.
I’m willing to be the guy/gal next door has those broken window alarm strips installed, one part of the strip is loose and when the cars RPM drops as the clutch is let out while in reverse it slightly vibrates the window causing the contact to short (or break) and thus the house alarm goes off.
Good fun :)
Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
#89This reminds me of a “bug” I found when working for a company that sells package lockers to apartment buildings. We used iPads for the user interface and had monitoring in place to alert us if an iPad went offline. At only one location with two iPads one would go offline almost every day (but not every day) between 12pm and 1pm, for 10-20 minutes. Never the same time of day, and never the same length of time. It was…
I lived in an apartment in Fl and during the month of August and into September, every afternoon my cable would cut out for several hours. Happened every year for the three years I was there and only during that part of the year. Could never get Comcast to get a tech out there during the correct time frame, but they had a box mounted on one wall and that time of year it got direct sunlight and I suspect heat was to blame.
Re: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
#90Got a kick out of this gem from the reddit comments: > My S2000 car alarm would be set off whenever I microwaved blueberries. Some experimentation revealed it was anything with excess water. Buying a new microwave solved the issue but I don't like thinking about how poorly shielded the old microwave was. I tried moving the for further from the kitchen or keeping the keys far away to no avail.
Why would someone microwave blueberries?
Assuming they mean the frozen, bagged ones.