Comments on: What’s your delay? http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2006/04/whats_your_dela.html A blog to help keep you up to date on home & community security issues on Vancouver's Westside as well as the continuing development and growth of Provident Security Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:59:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Roger http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2006/04/whats_your_dela.html/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Roger Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:40:00 +0000 http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2006/04/whats_your_dela.html#comment-33 Some interesting points, as usual. My first thought was, what if "something" goes wrong and slows me down, so I accidentally trigger a false alarm? Well, first, I guess I could always phone the monitoring company to say it was a false alarm. But my own experiment suggests I won't trigger the alarm even if I trip over coming through the door! I timed myself coming in the front door and entering the code, and at my normal pace it only took 6.2 seconds out of the 30 allowed. But then I did it again, pantomiming tripping on the rug, "falling" onto the floor, getting up, dusting myself off, and entering the code; this time was only 8.4 seconds! It sure seems a lot longer, but your perception of time is all wrong when you are so busy doing stuff. In fact you can do quite a few things in 2 seconds! So I guess if I set my delay to 10 seconds, I would have plenty of time unless I somehow managed to really hurt myself coming through the door. In that case, an alarm response might be a good idea anyway! Some interesting points, as usual.

My first thought was, what if “something” goes wrong and slows me down, so I accidentally trigger a false alarm? Well, first, I guess I could always phone the monitoring company to say it was a false alarm. But my own experiment suggests I won’t trigger the alarm even if I trip over coming through the door!

I timed myself coming in the front door and entering the code, and at my normal pace it only took 6.2 seconds out of the 30 allowed. But then I did it again, pantomiming tripping on the rug, “falling” onto the floor, getting up, dusting myself off, and entering the code; this time was only 8.4 seconds! It sure seems a lot longer, but your perception of time is all wrong when you are so busy doing stuff. In fact you can do quite a few things in 2 seconds!

So I guess if I set my delay to 10 seconds, I would have plenty of time unless I somehow managed to really hurt myself coming through the door. In that case, an alarm response might be a good idea anyway!

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