Lew Hodgett wrote:
Subject

When I was very young, my father told me about a craftsman who was
working on the county fairgrounds grand stand and also had a '32 Ford
roadster.

During the summer, he kept the back opened and his tools in plain site.

A guy once attempted to reach in and pick up a tool, but got knocked
flat on his rear end.

Seems the craftsman had rigged up an ignition coil that connected to
the car frame.

If you touched the car, 20,000 volts suggested that was not a smart
decision.

Lew

Ha! That's funny. I built something similar using a TV flyback
transformer and a timing circuit to keep Gypsy's out. I was living in
Rota, Spain and the Gypsies were a big problem with break-ins. So I
installed this apparatus (built from plans in Popular Electronics to
keep raccoons out of the garbage cans) onto heavy screens on the
windows. It would pulse at about 14k volts and zip amps for 1/2 second
and pause for 1/2 second.
Only one gypsy ever tried to break in, and wound up 2 floors down over
the balcony. He must have told his friends.