OT: shop break-ins update

||Long term, I'm going to dump ADT and build or buy a new system and hire a ||new monitor. ADT had their chance to please me and they were...arrogant.

The only thing I have ADT is the stickers. Those seem to ward off most types of evil spirits.

Texas Parts Guy

Genius! "honey, i HAVE to spend all this money, my old tools were stolen" she can't say nothing 'bout that! : )

walt ps. seriously, no one was hurt, you can buy new tools, good luck!

No names, but the very best alarm company I have ever worked with was criminally negligent; you should have seen the worst!

Go by and see your local 2-way radio shop that contracts to install stuff in police cars. Somewhere, perhaps in a dusty corner, they will have an old 100 watt electronic siren and a speaker horn. Offer them $20.00. Install that stuff with a relay to your alarm system and mount the speaker up high INSIDE your shop. With that siren wailing way past the pain threshold, nobody will be able to stay in there long enough to steal much.

Vaughn

When ADT had the big push on here, a neighbour borrowed one of their flower garden signs and put it out hoping to discourage sales staff, no luck, the sales supervisor threatened to have him charged with theft because "the sign still belongs to ADT" Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Hmmm, leave your air compressor on all the time? (Or, was that stolen, too?) I have had the experience of firing up a set of air horns inside, once. Just rig a set of air horns inside the shop, with a solenoid valve to turn them on. I guarantee anybody will drop whatever they are carrying so they can get their hands over their ears as they exit quickly!

Jon

Years ago, there was a company selling large ultrasonic transducers and they suggested they could be used for a "pain field generator". I remember thinking that it would be interesting to see if they could do that.. an invisible, inaudible source of intense pain.

WB .....................

were...arrogant.

Bypass the door switches on a few microwaves and point them in strategic directions......

In fact, that's a great idea... because that's what the military's new nonlethal pain field gun thing is.

Tim

-- "I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!" - Homer Simpson Website @

I DO have a bigass siren in the shop, I also have hearing muffs on most machines. The nearest neighbor is about 150 yards away and doesn't seem to call the cops.

I always thought something similar to this would work great for a car alarm, one speaker outside the vehicle, the other inside. How long can you stand the noise?

Rick