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Subject:Re: Why disconnect the clock?
From:David Beierl
Date:Fri, 30 Aug 2002 23:13:01 -0400

At 10:02 PM 8/30/2002, Don Hundt wrote:
>Tim et al,
>I would bet that the p.o. had an alarm in the van at one time. The last
>alarm that I purchased (for my work truck) had a line in the instructions
>stating that the voltage sensing function would not work properly (it would
>go off all the time) in a vehicle with an analog clock.

That probably refers to the kind of clock that's really mechanical, but
that gets electrically wound up every ?half hour? -- that would no doubt
trigger the sort of alarm that looks for voltage drops from doors opening etc.

david

>I personally love falling asleep to the ticking of my clock.........
>Don

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