Lawrence Lile wrote:
>
> > >Hi All
> > >My PIC based alarm system have been blown up with a High Voltage
> > >zapper; those handheld units for shocking people/animals...
> > >Aparently this is a new craze among burgulars. Thy kill home alarms,
> > >car alarms and cct video with these zappers.
> > >
>
> Fight fire with fire.  See the discussion on Tesla generators.  Have
> a nice spark gap connected through a circuit that turns on the high
> voltage juice, hook that to the frame of your car and ground it
> through a little steel chain hanging out the  \bottom......

Yeah, zap the bastard! I've wondered about the possibilities of
converting a welding machine into a constant current source.
Run the circuit through all the burglar bars and wait for that
sucker to try and saw it off...

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Tjaart van der Walt
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