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(More customer reviews)I'm a wedding photographer and with the influx of photographic equipment theft at wedding venues here in California, I wanted to find a way to protect my equipment from being stolen while I'm not near it.
I bring a Pelican 1510 rolling case with a Tamrac bag attached to the Pelican's handle. This stuff can easily be rolled away so I wanted to find some way to prevent it from being rolled away by anyone but myself. I saw the Doberman Bag Protector alert on Amazon and thought for less than $20, I'd give it a try.
What it does do:
When it senses vibrations, it gives off a few short warning chirps. If the vibrations continue, it sounds off it's piercingly loud siren. In order to stop it, you need to enter in a 4-digit code (that you set yourself) using its 3-digit keypard. However, be prepared to quickly put your palm over it to muffle the loud siren so that you don't blow out your ear-drums when you're next to it, trying to disarm it. Sometimes, it takes a couple of tries before it will take your 4-digit code.
The piercing alarm can also be triggered by pulling on the triangle clip away from the unit -- a quick way to sound off a distress alert if you're being attacked or something in the middle of the night.
It attaches to your luggage or any other item you want to protect by way of that triangular plastic clip, similar to the type of clip you would find from those plastic clips used to attach keys to the belt loop of a pair of pants. Any would-be thief would be able to unclip it from your bag and drop it on the floor as he/she is making off with your posession. A solution to this would be to remove the plastic clip from the end of the SE-0304 unit and attach it with a luggage lock (those small U-shaped locks).
What it doesn't do:
In theory, if a loud, annoying alarm is what you're looking for to protect your luggage, this sounds like the perfect solution (considering you swap out the plastic clip with a luggage lock). However, here's why I give it 2 stars... it works in your hand, and doesn't seem to work when your luggage is being stolen. I attached the thing to my photography rolling case, armed the unit and asked my roommate to act as if he was attempting to steal it. Out of 5 attempts, he successfully got away with my equipment 4 times! He simply grabbed the handle of my Pelican case, and started rolling it away. Bye bye $25,000 of photography equipment! So, maybe a rolling case/luggage will not be your application and you want to attach it to a backpack... I tested it with a backpack and with a briefcase. Attaching it to these items, he was 100% successful and walking off with both the backpack and briefcase with multiple attempts. It never went off. I thought maybe I forgot to arm it so I grabbed the bags and shook it, to force vibration to the unit... and alas, it went off.
So, in conclusion, if you expect your would be thief to RUN with your bag/briefcase/luggage, this may induce the vibration needed to trigger this bag protector. Or, if you have a rolling luggage, it may work if the thief is rolling it away on gravel or other bumpy surface... but the carpet found at most airports definitely won't provide any level of vibration to help trigger this protector. Maybe you can shave down some surface area of the wheels on your luggage so that it rolls very roughly... then it might work!
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