Sabre Door or Window Alarm review
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We take a look at the Sabre Door or Window Alarm which is a compact, self adhesive and battery powered system with two types of notifications. You can choose chime or alarm mode.
The packaging of the Sabre Door or Window Alarm is the standard hard to open shrink wrap. Once you get past that you find the main unit and side piece that get mounted to anything you want to be notified is opened. Four watch type batteries are already installed (with a plastic insert to save the batteries until you open it). The main unit has an easy to open cover to access the batteries, the selection switch and the battery test indicator.
Keep in mind the Sabre Door or Window Alarm is a 120dB chime/alarm so close up it is quite loud as we show in the video. The sound activated as soon as we separated the two pieces. It worked quite well so make sure you align them close together when installing.
The actual self adhesive strips are contained inside of the cover, along with a small instruction booklet. We show this in the video. They are not high grade and I would suggest buying some better ones for long term usage or on a door frame that gets a lot of heat or cold.
The battery test button on the Sabre Door or Window Alarm only illuminates the LED light on the device. There is no beep or other indication the batteries have failed. I suggest you add this to the same times you change things like smoke detectors to make sure the batteries are working.
Now where would I sue this simple alarm? Since it does not hook to any app, mobile alert or alarm reporting then I definitely would put this in some door, window or other space that you would not pay to have an alarm sensor installed. Also a place that is rarely opened. With the 120dB you could hear this under most circumstances but it is more of a deterrent. The adhesive is easily pulled off and opening the cover you can disable the alarm mode. There is no protection to stop someone just flipping off the switch. Think of this more as a surprise than an actual alarm.
It is worth the pricing I saw of the Sabre Door or Window Alarm when doing the review? Possibly. I would hope they could provide a batter low battery indicator system and better adhesive. Also some screw holes in case you wanted to mount this more securely. Otherwise it met what it stated it could do. So four starts.
Please see the quick video for live demo and more information on the Sabre Door or Window Alarm and get your hands on this (currently) under $10 device on Amazon at http://idonot.es/sabredoorwindow
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On Friday, February 27th, 2015 by Chris Miller
