Question about a drive way sensor

[Corm]

I just received some literature about driveway monitors from an outfit in South Dakota that looks very interesting. They were recommended by several folks around me. The name of the outfit is -

Dakota Alert, Inc.
PO Box 130, 112 W. Main
Elk Point, SD 57025
Phone - (605)-356-2772
FAX - (605)-356-2584

I have no affiliation at all with this outfit, just thought some of you might find the info useful.

Corm

 

[heehaw]

thats where i got the driveway alert i use; it works ok..but like i said, i'd opt for the one with the hose laying across the driveway if i had it to do again..kinda like the ole full service stations had one time..except this one transmits up to 1000 ft to a receiver..
heehaw

 

[Billc]

Crom, do they have a web sight?

Heehaw, you said the hose goes across the drive. Do they make one where the sensor across the driveway can be buried? In other words not seen if a stranger is coming up the drive?

Bill Cook

 

[heehaw]

i haven't seen one with a hose that you can bury; that would sense the metal, magnetic force, or something like that, like the sensors on traffic lights; i do know that Dakota alert was/is willing to set folks up as dealers; you have to send them a copy of your sales tax exemption; it saves @ 30% off the retail price of there stuff, a friend of mine did that, and i got one to test, to see how much effort we wanted to put into selling this type of sensor; well, for me it works great, i don't mind the neighbors rooster settin it off now an again, and i don't mind when it misses a vehicle once in a while, but i don't think the general public is that forgiving; so we haven't attempted to do any selling; i like the motion sensor because it catches folks walking down the drive too; the ideal situation would probably be to aim the unit at a wall of a barn or other building, where VERY little critter traffic was encountered, but would catch the driveway; i am toying with the idea of putting it overhead, and aimed down at the road, then the critters would have to walk down the middle of the drive to set it off; i wouldn't want to do without the sensor since i've gotten use to it; but i still need to tune the detection area to make it really useful..it operates from 1ea 9volt battery.
heehaw

 

[Corm]

Billc - They do not have a web site mentioned in their literature.

Corm

 

[Billc]

Thanks, Crom.

 

[uppermich]

I found them at http://www.dakotaalert.com/.

Ordered one to be a critter detector near my barn. I got two feeder pigs last weekend and they threw in some Bantam chicks with the deal. I've lost all my poultry to bobcat the last two years in a row. Some friends trapped one the first year, but there was another one that showed up last winter and cleaned me out again /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif.

I've sealed up the chicken coop but am concerned that the pigs may be "sitting ducks" even in a pen in the barn. That didn't stop the bobcat when I had ducks in the pen. Hopefully, this will give me a chance to avert another massacre and do double duty as a driveway detector.

Pat (Techno-Tractor Mom)

 

[Billc]

Uppermich,

Thanks, great sight.

Bill Cook

 

[heehaw]

sure hope your critter alert works better than my driveway alert; twice in the last week, we had a knock on the door, and we didn't know anyone was anywhere around; but when they drove out, the alert went off..we have a one lane driveway, so they were the same distance from the sensor, entering and leaving...one was a one ton ford truck, the other was a chevy blazer..both big enough to be detected???
that dog is looking better every day.
heehaw

 

[scruffy]

Out of curiosity, were both vehicles rather high off the ground? Your sensor may be limited in its capacity to detect something over 12" off the ground for example. Just a thought.