Water leak detector types: use a rope when water can appear anywhere along a run, and a spot probe when it pools in one tray.
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Contact our team →Choosing between water leak detector types is a placement decision, not a brand decision. A rope watches a line. A spot probe watches a puddle.
The rope water leak sensor reports wet or dry along a conductive cable, plus an optional zone index. Lay it on the lowest path under air handlers, trenches, and pipe runs. One node can cover a long run. It will not tell you the exact metre that got wet. Name zones in the commissioning pack so the alarm points at an aisle.
The spot leak probe belongs in a drip tray, bund, or pump base. If the electrodes sit on a raised boss, detection is late. Clean deposits during maintenance so a dirty probe does not look dry.
Both kits join one LoRaWAN application on a plant room. Do not paste one decoder onto both models. The facility monitoring page shows how rooms combine rope, spot, door, and level without treating them as one payload.
A 100-unit stock trial is enough to prove the decoder on a real gateway before a larger order. EU868 and US915 are the standard plans. Confirm any other band on the quote. Manufacturing history — 25 years and 2.5 million units — does not change which geometry you need on the floor.
Name rope zones and tray locations before the first wet test. Paste the PS-210 decoder on rope nodes and the PS-211 decoder on spot probes — never swap them. Watch the frame counter after a dry weekend so a silent node is obvious before the first flood of the season.
Door contacts and tank level can join the same application. Keep their profiles separate. The facility solution page shows how rooms combine kits without treating them as one payload.
Order rope and spot as separate line items with separate decoder files on the PO. Stock trials at 100 units are enough to prove both on one gateway before branding.
Write the measurement question before you open cartons. Confirm the regional plan on the quote. Paste only the matching decoder profile. Watch the frame counter for a full interval. Name devices after rooms and tanks operators already use. Stock a spare for mounts you cannot reach without a lift. A 100-unit stock trial proves join and decode before branding at 500 units. EU868 and US915 are the standard radio plans; ask before you assume another band. Manufacturing history — 25 years, 2.5 million units, 0.3 percent field failure — belongs in vendor review after the measurement and decoder are right. Destination-market documentation is a separate pack on the purchase order. Hong Kong sales owns the commercial conversation; the public decoder library owns the named fields.