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Mark,
It won't stop someone from jump starting under the hood but try what I
had on a previous vehicle. It had a starter button and after modification it
required you to #1 turn ignition on #2 press starter button #3 (this always
got em) I had a hi-lo speed electric wiper switch for the wipers and being
as I never use high speed disconnected the high speed wire from the switch
and put the high speed wiper switch in the starter button circuit in series.
It also allows people watching you start when they try to go HUH??
Just a thought.
James Shanks
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-----Original Message-----
From: mblair1@home.net <mblair1@home.net>
To: Military Vehicles List <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] MV security: Brake pedal lock?
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>Various folks mentioned:
>> Sears is now advertising a battery with a remote control.
>
>I use original mil batteries in my MVs, but I've considered various
>radio-controlled approaches, since I'm an electrical engineer anyway
>(don't ask for details... any such approach gets most of its "security"
>from obscurity, so I consider any such plans "secret"). I'd still
>rather find a way to do it that can't be trivially bypassed by anybody
>familiar with MVs and their very simple wiring systems ("hmm, doesn't
>start, let's try shorting wire xx to wire yy").
>
>I've looked into simple expedients like battery disconnect, but so
>far, all of the ones I've found have been cheap pieces of junk. The
>Hella Australia page shows a heavy-duty disconnect switch (model 4653)
>which looks promising, but I don't know where to get one in the US:
>
> http://www.hella.com.au/catalogue/a_z_pdf/s_pdf/batt_switch.pdf
>
>If the Sears battery isn't too expensive, its electronic guts might
>still be one source of a radio control deck for roll-your-own
>projects. If anybody tries one of these, I'd appreciate hearing any
>details that you don't mind sharing.
>
>Anything I can do can be bypassed, but maybe using multiple disabling
>methods (with preference for ones which don't require any permanent
>vehicle mods) will make it difficult enough to figure out to deter
>most thieves. The nice thing about radio controlled devices is that
>you don't give away the location of the device to anybody who watches
>you activate it (like a battery disconnect or kill switch). A battery
>disconnect switch would still be handy for disconnecting the battery
>while servicing the vehicle, without messing with battery clamps and
>having a loose cable floating around in the battery compartment.
>
>--
>Mark J. Blair, KE6MYK <mblair1@home.net>
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