OT Your opinion? Giving someone a ride.

[mm]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:58:23 -0400, aemeijers wrote: ....

I found out years into it that whenever someone rang my doorbell when I wasn't home, usually the mailman, it set off my burglar alarm. Most people weren't home and no one complained. It just came up in conversation.

I foudn a nicer doorbell on sale for 60% off, so I bought it and put the other one in the basement. Then it turned out I needed a bigger doorbell transformer to run both, and when I got the bigger one it rang the main floor bell louder than the previous bell had rung, which set off the glass/wood breakage detector, and the alarm.

Didn't want to make the two detectors less sensitive, so I put a resistor in the power supply to the main floor bell. Used a potentiometer until I got a good value, measured the value of the pot at that point, and replaced it with a fixed resistor.

[Jim Yanik]

" [e-mail]" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

it doesn't. Unless you have a paging alarm.

Yeah,and if it were their car being broken into or stolen,they'd bitch and whine. GOOD neighbors look out for each other.

I do. Even at 3 AM.

[HeyBub]

Then there's Pennsylvania: Philadelphia in the east, Pittsburgh in the west, and Alabama in between...

[Han]

"HeyBub" wrote in news:eIqdnXaKEO8ADJHTnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

We were going to visit somewhere in between to go hot air ballooning, but I don't want to go to Alabama . So I'll disregard your remark for now.

(YMMV, and all kinds of LOL and so forth)

[N8N]

Yup yup yup

similar trip I will go 50+ miles out of my way to avoid the DC area entirely. Seems like you barely get past Richmond before it starts to back up.

nate

[N8N]

VW definitely improved both heaters and crashworthiness over the years. I was never afraid to drive anywhere in my watercooled VWs and took my Scirocco to northern VT over new years' Y2K.

I lost track of the number of times I was rear-ended in both the roccet and my GTI 16V... never any damage to *my* car (hee hee hee)

nate

[krw]

I didn't think too much of Alabama, until I moved here. It really is a rather beautiful state and the weather beats the hell out of anything in the Northeast! ...not to even rub your nose in your taxes. ;-)

[Ed Pawlowski]

"Jim Yanik" wrote

I don't. A few weeks ago I did though. The third time the alarm went off I went outside, as did my neighbor across the street. The guy that owned the truck never heard anything when we told him a few days later. He had electrical problems, now fixed.