Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!bellas From: bellas@ttidcb.UUCP (Pete Bellas) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Auto Alarms Message-ID: <399@ttidcb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 18:27:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcb.399 Posted: Wed Jul 3 18:27:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 05:50:00 EDT Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 18 Along the Tesla coil idea. I was working "on loan" to Lockheed and had my car broken into and the stereo stolen (It was a "theft proof" model that was bolted to the transmission hump, they simply removed the entire hump, which I had to replace with sheet metal!). One of the guys in the electronics lab said he would come up with a good "alarm' for me. He called it the "Electro Zap", it used a solidstate oscilator and a coil to charge the entire body of the vehicle. When it went off touching any metal part of the car was like grabing hold of a spark plug wire. I installed it for a while, but eventually got paranoid over the legal aspect of "electrocuting" someone and removed it. My final solution was to move to somewhere where you can leave your windows down at night and you wallet on the dash, and not worry about anything being missing in the morning. -Pete- "It's nice out here in the desert... no rain, no crops, no white brother..."