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Subject: electrical sophistacations
From: linus!xait!rutgers!pwcs.stpaul.gov!phile@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Philip J Ethier)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 90 14:13:41 CDT
Found on rec.autos.tech:Article 14803 (6 more) in rec.autos.tech:
From: ferguson@maitai.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Dennis Ferguson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.autos.tech
Subject: Re: car Body Electrification
Summary: Cruelty to animals
Message-ID: <56164@srcsip.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 90 01:56:09 GMT
References: <71pG02L980gr01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
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Organization: Honeywell, Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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In article <26245@cup.portal.com> Nagle@cup.portal.com (John - Nagle)
writes:
>
>      There's some risk of igniting any gas spill with a car body
>electrification system.  This should be kept in mind.  Any setup...

Please allow me to relate a small story on electrification of cars.  
In
a much similar time (late 60's) my folks lived at the edge of a small
town.  Their house was located next to a highway with a ditch between
the house and the highway.  The ditch seemed to be a major 
thoroughfare
for the loose dogs in the town.  One dog had a particularly nasty 
habit
of relieving himself on my father's new Austin Healy Sprite.  Being
somewhat
annoyed at the smell of urine on his new car, he electrified the car
with
a car battery and a flyback transformer (its been too long to remember
all the
details).   I happened to be around when the dog decided to relieve
himself
per his usual habit.  I did not believe dogs could make such high
pitched
noises.  After a couple of days, no more problems.

Oh, by the way...  to my knowledge the electrication did not impact
the
car at all.

Dennis
End of article 14803 (of 14810)--what next? [npq]
OF COURSE IT DIDN'T BOTHER THE CAR.  SPRIDGETS HAVE NO ELECTRONICS
MORE SOPHISTACATED THAN EARLY EDISON EXPERIMENTS.  TODAY'S COMPUTER
CARS WOULD PROBABLY SELF-DESTRUCT.

phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov


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