Chamberlain RWA-300R Wireless Alert System
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Chamberlain RWA-300R Wireless Alert System
Customer Review: DON'T count on it
Summary: 3 Stars
I just bought one of these things. Chamberlain now sells them. The one I bought came with a receiver and two transmitters. Okay, if you REALLY want one of these things to monitor a room inside, they will work well. The claim of 1200 foot reception range is laughable. It will pull out 100 feet from transmitter to receiver, on BRAND NEW batteries. At 75 feet, it will go through two of my garage walls and will reach the unit mounted on the back wall by a window. Thats as good as you will get, or at least as good as I got and there is NOTHING between my garage and my house except a tree that isn't in the line of transmission. By the way, a fifteen dollar Driveway Patrol unit does this with ease. It is also more consistant too. This system doesn't trip on every pass, but neither does the Driveway Patrol unit. The Driveway Patrol Unit is more consistant!
Now, as for transmitter coverage, you should be jumping up and down if you get fifteen feet out of it. I checked the spec. sheet in the instructions to see if the transmitters were set for 30 feet and they were, so count on fifteen, MAXIMUM. I called Chamberlain about this and the guy said that they are getting all kinds of complaints about the range of the sensors. They told me that this was because the ones I bought had a shorter antenna on them. They said they have some with 8" antennas on them now. Thats funny because they were the distributors who made the ones they JUST sent me, yet instead of correcting the problem before shipment and putting on longer antennas, they sent out ones with short ones in hopes that well, goodness knows what they were thinking. Mine were made this year. They offered to make it right by sending out another transmitter with a long antenna but wouldn't send out two. They will replace both but you have to pay for shipping the ones they shouldn't have shipped out, to send back to them.
The buzzer is terrible and has no volume control and the receiver is really light plastic that is probably going to break if I touch it again. The transmitters also have a habit of turning off for about fifteen seconds if you pass by them more than four times. You have to stay away from them for that time in order for them to turn back on. They stay off and no matter what you do, if you don't stop passing the beam after four times, it will not transmit or flash. Theres another irritating thing; the sensor LIGHTS UP everytime the beam is tripped. This gives away their location and existence to a theif who will probably break them when he sees them light up. There is NO stealth whatsoever!
The only saving grace to this system is that the batteries last up to two years, or so they claim, lol. The receiver plugs in to AC which saves on batteries. I have a Driveway Patrol unit that works better but I think it will drain batteries in the transmitters fast, although I have been using the same one in their transmitter for about a week and its still working, BETTER THAN this system! Their receiver has a jack for AC but its not provided with their system.
Don't pay attention to the claims of distance. Read the other reviews and you'll see the same words. If you monitor a room inside, this system is not bad and may save you from having to change batteries often. Other than that, you're better off with a fifteen dollar Driveway Patrol unit. I am not encouraging the purchase of either of these systems, but just take the advice of the people who have this system and LISTEN to them, then decide for yourself. I wouldn't suggest the use of either one of these systems as a solitary early warning system. They're just not reliable. Good luck.
Description of Chamberlain RWA-300R Wireless Alert System
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