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Switched to hardwired sensors after a job at an old church.
I was doing a retrofit at St. Mary's in Detroit, and the wireless panel kept losing signal through those thick stone walls. Took me three extra hours to run the wires, but the system hasn't had a single dropout since. Has anyone else found a specific building type that just kills wireless performance?
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jennyp191d ago
Went STRAIGHT past the church part and got stuck on Detroit for a second. That city's got old buildings that eat signals like candy. I had a job at this old brick warehouse near Eastern Market, wireless panel couldn't hold a connection for more than ten minutes. Ended up drilling through THREE layers of brick and some kind of metal mesh inside the walls. Hardwired everything and it's been solid for a year now.
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vera_campbell1d ago
That "three layers of brick and metal mesh" you mentioned is exactly the kind of nightmare that makes me wonder why more people don't talk about old elevator shafts. I had a job in a 1920s office building where the elevator shaft was basically a giant metal box running through the whole structure. It turned the entire building into a faraday cage. Wireless panels on floors four through seven were totally useless. Had to run conduit the long way around just to get any signal to them.
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