Anyone know how to protect a utility trailer in the homeowners yard?

Magnetic pull apart. You can get them any length from GRI.

The pull apart is fine. Program the transmitter as unsupervised. If the trailer is all metal, you will need to mount the transmitter in a weather proof box. You can tamper the box on a separate loop.

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Heck I was thinking put the transmitter under the eve of the house. Leave it supervised and set it up so if he forgets ands and pulls the trailer out the pull apart will disengage and set off his alarm. Get a second socket to plug it into when the trailer is not there.

That's fine if you put the trailer in the same exact spot everytime.

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Give or take a few feet. Like I said GRI will make those pull a parts any length you want.

You didn't say if you wanted to protect what was in the trailer or just detect if it was moved.

Here's something that's a little elaborate but it would make it easy to use if you just want to detect if the trailer was moved.

Set up a photo electric eye outside. Park the trailer between the transmitter and receiver. Program the panel with an open circuit auto bypass zone. When the trailer is there and you arm the system, it will detect if it's moved. If you arm the system and the trailer isn't there, the system will auto bypass the zone. If the panel is partitionable, you may want to put the trailer zone on it's own partition. If the panel has an auto rearm feature you could probably use that too. The down side is that you have to run wires out to the PE's. Depends on how much the trailer is worth to determine how much you want to put into protecting it.

If you want to protect the contents of the trailer ...... that's a whole different big can of worms.

Honeywell is soon to release an outdoor wireless 5816 sensor, be perfect for his system.

You didn't say if you wanted to protect what was in the trailer or just detect if it was moved.

Here's something that's a little elaborate but it would make it easy to use if you just want to detect if the trailer was moved.

Set up a photo electric eye outside. Park the trailer between the transmitter and receiver. Program the panel with an open circuit auto bypass zone. When the trailer is there and you arm the system, it will detect if it's moved. If you arm the system and the trailer isn't there, the system will auto bypass the zone. If the panel is partitionable, you may want to put the trailer zone on it's own partition. If the panel has an auto rearm feature you could probably use that too. The down side is that you have to run wires out to the PE's. Depends on how much the trailer is worth to determine how much you want to put into protecting it.

If you want to protect the contents of the trailer ...... that's a whole different big can of worms.

We make our own pull cords using a weather proof 4" grey electrical box from Home Depot and 1 short orange exstintion cord and 1 50' orange exstintion cord.

We drill 2 holes in the bottom of the 4" electrical box and place the mail side of the cord through one hole and the female side of the cord on the other. We leave about 1 foot of cord on the outside of the box. On the inside, we crimp a strain relive clamp on the cord so it can not be pulled out of the box. Then we strip with wire back exsposing the black, white and green wires. This is done on each side. We pick the color we want to use (it changes each time we make these) and cut the unused colors. If we choose green, then 1 green wires goes to one of the terminals on the wireless transmitters, and the other green wire goes to the other terminal on the wireless transmitter. Then we put the cover on the transmitter and close the box. I also put a tamper switch inside the box by taking glue and putting a magnet on the box cover and the switch on the box inside wall.

Now we usually mount the box wherever the customer needs the protection and they can use a long power cord to weave through the equipment stored out side and then they plug both ends to the electrical cords comming out of the

4'' grey box. We have been doing this for years with no problems. I have this setup at my house which protects my 4 wheelers and go karts located in my shed...

Matthew