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From: bellas@ttidcb.UUCP (Pete Bellas)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Auto Alarms
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 18:27:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 18:27:34 1985
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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..."