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auto telephone dialer for heat outage

oil-2-4-6-gas
oil-2-4-6-gas Member Posts: 641
in THE MAIN WALL
we use a Sensaphone model # im not sure of --it has 3 dry contacts it will call out to a couple of numbers --you can call it and listen to the status of temp , you can here the surrounding area of the unit --and they are relatively inexpensive

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  • bob_17
    bob_17 Member Posts: 14
    auto dialer

    I am looking for a device to call my home if the heat goes out in my vacation home. Any suggestions?
  • bob_17
    bob_17 Member Posts: 14
    auto dialer

    I am looking for a device to call my home if the heat goes out in my vacation home. Any suggestions?
  • Alan R. Mercurio_3
    Alan R. Mercurio_3 Member Posts: 1,624


    Secure heat by OnWatch Electronics



    Your friend in the industry,
    Alan R. Mercurio

    www.oiltechtalk.com

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  • Bill_14
    Bill_14 Member Posts: 345
    Try Radio Shack

  • Wayne_12
    Wayne_12 Member Posts: 62
    alarms

    Freeze alert offers a service to monitor the home/building temperature and then call a qualified service company to service the unit. www.freezealert.com

    Control Products makes a unit that will dial up to 3 numbers with a recorded message stating the building is at a temperature you have previously selected. They have a unit that can be connected to the thermostat control to start or stop the heater or ac unit. Imagine the cold cabin and calling ahead to start the furnace or a warm boat, calling ahead to start the air conditioner. Now if it would make a fresh martini. www.Freezealarms.com

    The one I have seen is made in Golden Valley, MN.

    A quick check of the web brings up many different manufactures and sources of freeze alarm devices
  • Jason Horner
    Jason Horner Member Posts: 58


    If you have a monitored home burglar/fire alarm system, your alarm company can install a low temperature sensor as a separate zone on the alarm panel.

    If the temperature drops below the setpoint of the sensor, that alarm panel will notify the alarm company that the sensor on Zone X - the temperature sensor - has tripped. Depending on what arrangements you have made with the monitoring company, they can have a list of phone numbers to call for heating service or they can call you or other family/friends contacts.

    Having the alarm company calling the local heating contractor with a 'no heat, critical low temperature' call may be just the thing for your weekend house while you are on that Caribbean cruise.
  • Mitch_4
    Mitch_4 Member Posts: 955
    Argo

    makes a couple. The AR500-1, and AR 500-3.

    www.argoindustries.cam, or try www.ecrinternational.com
  • mike parnell
    mike parnell Member Posts: 42


    i have used a sensaphone for the same reason,watching the temps in my greenhouse,it will call 3-4 numbers till it gets you,for no heat,too much heat,too much noise,power failures,they work great. you can find them at greenhouse supplly house,and i think at smarthome.com. good luck
  • Floyd_7
    Floyd_7 Member Posts: 136
    Sensaphone....

    Farmerboy.com
  • larry
    larry Member Posts: 91
    Home Automation Inc

    has a series of home automation/security systems that offer very nice programable capabilities (the entry level OmniLT product at www.homeauto.com would probably work well for many vacation homes). You can connect to a monitoring service and also have dial out messages. With the weblink software you can also have it send email alerts when certain conditions happen. HAI also has a full line of communicating thermostats so you can call into you system and have it change the setpoint of your thermostats at anytime.
  • Ted Robinson
    Ted Robinson Member Posts: 126
    Freeze alarms

    One winter I set up a thermostat with a low setting so the normally open contacts were across the phone line. Should the temp drop below the thermostat setting, the phone line would appear to be busy. Of course you have to keep check ing the phone line for a 'busy' condition.
  • adambuild
    adambuild Member Posts: 420
    Sensaphone

    Sensahone model #1104 is the way to go. Check them out at http://www.sensaphone.com/ I got mine at Graybar for the best price, about $280.00
  • Weezbo
    Weezbo Member Posts: 6,232
    we have limitations living here,so.....

    Freeze Alarm ,model FA-1 ..........a round figure is a couple of your favorite presidents.
  • m dewolfe
    m dewolfe Member Posts: 92


    Right here in my hot little hands is my third sensaphone 2000. what a great unit! from the internet I can see real time what the temp is at my rental property, measure the runtime on my boiler{in minutes} and watch for power outages and even see if the boiler has tripped out on low water or if the primary reset has tripped. Last winter I was enroute to the property before the tenants ever knew that there was a problem! I am 100 percent sold on there product and the support that they offer! any questions call me 203-426-1579...........No I dont work for them either...
  • Kal Row
    Kal Row Member Posts: 1,520
    \"i got vone void fa ya, \"vin-tah-rryyyzz\"!!!

    just went through this with a friend's vacation home, who ran the heat all winter but had a pipe bust on a power failure, if you are in the house upon a power failure, you can trickle all fixtures to keep em from freezing, vach-ya gona do, ven ya not dar an-it-happens?, is your dialer even going to work?, fo-geet-abow-eet!!!!

    "vin-tah-rryyyzz"
    "vin-tah-rryyyzz"
    "vin-tah-rryyyzz"

    ooops dats tree voids ;)
  • Kal Row
    Kal Row Member Posts: 1,520
    though there was this max water flow protection device...

    advertized in PM magazine for a year but i cant remember the name - tried searching and came up empty

    what it did was, protect the house from pipe bursts by limiting a flow rate to a time, ie will alow the flow rate of a toilet filling for 40 seconds and then cut off the water completely, etc - and it was battery powered
  • Alan Bright
    Alan Bright Member Posts: 17
    auto dialer and more... attn: Bob Holohan

    > I am looking for a device to call my home if the

    > heat goes out in my vacation home. Any

    > suggestions?



    Bob and other interested Wallies,
    The problem is, if a low temperature sensor/caller responds
    at 40* or 38* how long will it take to get a response/repair to the property? How about 20 minutes after a heating issue arrises, long before the building temp starts to fall. Why is there a low temp situation? Power outage? The answer is HMGI SilentSentry, specifically for hydronic systems. If you are interested email me at the address above or fax your contact info(303) 238-9209 for an informative video. (only 15 minutes of your valuable time) Thanks Big AL
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