Theft at Westfield
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Nimbusgb
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Yes. but 30* £80 is £2700 per annum! Having 20 or 30 car batteries in the field for a week or two at a time is a potential target profile increase and spot does not have an external power supply jack so you are in to customisation of the unit. The unit has to be hidden as well ( could put it in the junction box but you'd need to put on a bigger box ) , otherwise scrotes hit it once with a sledgehammer, all over. eMail alerts are fine but unless you have constant monitoring of your mail account scrotes are gone when you arrive. You only have a couple of minutes if you are not on site.
Not trying to put the spot down but I started my career developing security systems in South Africa where every single aspect of a system is exploited within hours of it being invented.
Spot is a great idea in some applications, I have one on my boat that tracks our little cruises, but there are practical limitations.
Sounds like there is an opportunity here and you have the skills 
There is of course no foolproof solution to anything when it comes to security - but at the same time I find it hard to just sit on my hands with my glass half empty and do nothing.
Aris
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I'm fully aware of the ingenuity of the scrotes in SA - I lived there for 12 years. Of course over there when security gets too difficult to circumvent, the preferred solution is just to stick a gun to your head.
There is of course no foolproof solution to anything when it comes to security - but at the same time I find it hard to just sit on my hands with my glass half empty and do nothing.
Aris
P.S.
I'm fully aware of the ingenuity of the scrotes in SA - I lived there for 12 years. Of course over there when security gets too difficult to circumvent, the preferred solution is just to stick a gun to your head.
Nimbusgb
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I suggested that a little night shooting might just convince the scrotes to pick something else to nick. Perhaps the next shootclay cup could be a floodlit event ( in the dark until a trap gets moved at which point ...... 1 for first barrel, 1/2 point for second barrel and 10 points for both! )
How about a system that triggers off say 4 or 5 double barrelled volleys of a rook scarer? In the dark, nicking something, a couple of rounds might make the scrotes traceable just by following the smell from soiled underwear!
How about a system that triggers off say 4 or 5 double barrelled volleys of a rook scarer? In the dark, nicking something, a couple of rounds might make the scrotes traceable just by following the smell from soiled underwear!
That is actually not a bad idea. Easy enough to trigger a solenoid to pull off some saluting blanks in an alarm mine.
I came close to getting shot with one of these things that had been converted to use a live 12 bore round. The 'wire' had been attached to the back of an outbuilding door, had I flung the door open, then BANG ! It would have hit me somewhere around knee height. Used correctly though with a 12 bore blank, I think that they may well scare off intruders, after all, they do not know what the response to the 'bang' would be.
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My understanding is that without being in a pressure chamber (barrel), shotgun shells are fairly harmless if they go off. The pressure is rapidly diffused in all directions instead of forward. Not something I'd like to test though.
edit: someone on the inter webs has tried it. No compression (from a barrel) means no pressure.
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The only 'alarm' guns that I have seen, used a short section of tube which took a 12 bore blank, there was then a spring loaded firing pin held back with a further pin, this in turn was fastened to the trip wire. The whole device was then designed to be fastened to a fence post or tied to a tree. On the device in question, the tube to take the 12 bore round, had been welded on in place of the blank container. It was later tested and proved to fire a live round, but not without damage to the device. Remember these people were converting 'de-activated' guns and producing 'replicas' to fire live rounds. They are all presently 'inside'.
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