Recommendations for Outdoor Motion Sensors for Driveway?

Joe Wangkauf · 2010-01-30T04:49:46+00:00

Hi,I need to put some kind of outdoor motion sensor that will provide anaudible tone in front of my house pointing at my driveway. Does anyonehave any recommendations? Something I could perhaps order online?It does *not* have to connect to my alarm system.TIA.

Jan 30, 2010 22 Replies

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Jim 16 years ago

The boats been dry docked since the end of November. It's gasoline powered so at 27 gallons per hour cruising speed, I'd have to sell the farm to buy gas to get down that way. Cost's about $900.00 for 9 hours worth of cruising at 20 knots.

You may have forgotten, I've been boating for close to 40 years now and there's not much I haven't seen in my immediate vicinity. So powerboating is a nessessity for me to be able to get to remote places within the time frame of a week's vacation. (although I sometimes take

3 seperate weeks) I do the sailing in the Caribbean. Although I haven't been there for about 5 years now. Unfortunately, I've been gradually losing my sailing buddy friend, of 50 years, to Alzheimers.

Could be, I never make that trip again. Takes at least two good experienced sailors and a couple of crew to handle a 40/50 foot sail boat. Probably the only way I'd go now is charter a power boat. But, it's just not the kind of seas down there for cruising with a power boat. They're way too light. Bounce around all night long like a cork, on anchor. Need something with a multi ton keel on it. The sea just rollls right on by, like you weren't even there. And, when your on vacation in the tropics, 8 knots is high speed. Great excitement occurs if you hit 9 without taking water over the gunwale.

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Robert L Bass 16 years ago

It's gasoline powered so at 27 gallons per hour cruising speed, I'd have to sell the farm to buy gas to get down that way. Cost's about $900.00 for 9 hours worth of cruising at 20 knots.

I'll say that's expensive. I don't recall if I ever said anything about it here but years ago in CT I came within minutes of signing the papers on a 30' Sea Ray. The thing that blew the deal was consideration of slippage. We lived in W. Hartford, which is *hours* of repeated no wake zones up the Connecticut river from the Sound. I started seriously "doing the numbers" -- number of usable days per season, cost (time and $) just to get to open water, etc. You know far better than I. Anyway, at the last minute I got cold feet. That was really good because about a year later my whole situation changed. I'd have lost the almost entire investment in the settlement.

Now I live minutes from the water and it's almost ten years since I've been on a boat in the USA. I've been out in Brazil and that was fun. (Oh yeah, I apologize for the "SS Jiminex" picture). That was in Boipeba, a really beautiful little island paradice. If you ever have the opportunity, you really should go down ther. It's not about sex, crazyiness or anything like that. The country is beautiful and the people are the friendliest on earth. Unlike mot Latin-American places they really like Americanos. Maybe it's becaue we haven't tried to run their country for them. :^)

and there's not much I haven't seen in my immediate vicinity. So powerboating is a nessessity for me to be able to get to remote places within the time frame of a week's vacation. (although I sometimes take

I watched my Dad go downhill with senility -- not Alzheimers, but the results wre heart-breaking. He died a year ago last Friday.

experienced sailors and a couple of crew to handle a 40/50 foot sail boat. Probably the only way I'd go now is charter a power boat. But, it's just not the kind of seas down there for cruising with a power boat. They're way too light. Bounce around all night long like a cork, on anchor. Need something with a multi ton keel on it. The sea just rollls right on by, like you weren't even there. And, when your on vacation in the tropics, 8 knots is high speed. Great excitement occurs if you hit 9 without taking water over the gunwale.

Ah, but the memories are a lifetime of joy.

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