Sleeper® alarm different from other bedwetting alarms?
The DRI Sleeper® alarm unit is small (about half the size of a credit card, but 5/8 inch or 15mm thick), made in bright, child friendly colours. The DRI Sleeper® alarm has special electronics. When the detector is wet by urine, it triggers the alarm to start beeping, and almost instantly the alarm unit isolates itself from the detector, and then keeps on beeping, but with no current running through the detector. This is quite different from most other alarms – they have current flowing through the detector as long as the alarm is beeping. The problem with this, is that even although the current may be small and is completely safe, that small electric current can still cause the urine to become acidic, and this can irritate the child’s skin. In the case of the DRISleeper®, this cannot happen – because there is no current in the detector.
