<VV> Reality

[Mike Kost]

If you have a tach. you could put a switch (maybe in the glove box) to 
ground the sense wire for the tach. This would allow it to crank and 
even jumping power to the coil would not allow it to start. If you have 
an electric fuel pump you could use the same switch to disable the pump.

Mike Kost
SMCC

vairologist at juno.com wrote:

> Smitty says:  Way back in the 70s someone put a simple circuit in our
>news letter to prevent simple car theft.  Nothing is going to protect it
>if someone loads it on a flatbed with the tires sliding but this seemed
>pretty slick to me at the time.  It utilized a switch under the dash for
>the owner to operate.  In the Norm position it would allow a start with
>the key as usual.  In the safe position it placed a dead short across the
>positive terminal of the coil.  If someone tried to hot wire it they
>would encounter a shorted circuit.  If the owner forgot the switch and
>tried to start it , it would blow a fuse provided for that purpose to
>remind him to form a new habit of putting the switch in the Norm
>position.
>        I wonder how hard it would be to get one of our electrically
>minded to draw the circuit so that if the switch is in the safe position
>and someone tries to hot wire it, it would blow the horn rather than
>being shorted.  A circuit like that would be worth printing in the
>Communique. 
>  
>



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