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Shoutout to the old guy at the supply house who changed my mind on glass breaks
I was picking up some wire in Tacoma last week and got talking to this retired installer, Frank. He said he never used a glass break sensor in a house with double-pane windows... said the air gap messes with the sound profile and gives you false alarms. I always just slapped them in anywhere. He showed me on his phone, this study from like 2012 where they tested it. I've been doing this for 7 years and never heard that. Has anyone else run into this, or do you just use a different sensor type for those windows?
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the_phoenix1mo ago
My old boss in Seattle had the same rule. We used shock sensors on double-pane jobs instead. That Frank guy knows his stuff.
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