PS. most of the guys who work on the farms smell like they slept with a skunk last night already.. And the homeless have a county bus that comes around every two weeks to give them showers. I heard one Mayor call the bus a civic improvement in the downtown district.
On 9/1/14, Dennis Miles <dmiles33...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the industrial world we live in it all comes down to what will make > the most profitable. Skunk scent may work but here in rural Florida, > the scrap buyers will accept wire with the insulation burned off so > they put insulated wire scraps in a steel barrel without a top and add > a cup of gasoline and throw a match at it . so how much effect will > having skunk scent in the wire have? And with the nearest neighbor a > mile away who will notice? > > On 9/1/14, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: >> Lots of great comments on this thread. >> >> I think it boils down to thieves steal the wire because it is easy. >> Nobody's >> watching, it's easy to cut the present cables, and it's easy to sell the >> copper for fast money. >> >> So the solutions come down to a) better surveillance, b) making it harder >> to >> steal (harder to cut etc.), and c) making the wire less valuable (using >> something other than copper). >> >> I thought of a 4th possibility. How about making the EVSE cord out of >> "shunk >> wire"? Include a plastic tube in the cable, filled with mercaptans (skunk >> musk)! It could also include an indelible dye, as used in bank money >> bags. >> Anyone who cuts one of these cables will be a "marked man", and never do >> that again! >:-) >> >> >> -- >> Excellence does not require perfection. -- Henry James >> -- >> Lee A. Hart http://www.sunrise-ev.com/controllers.htm now includes the GE >> EV-1 >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA >> (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) >> >> > > > -- > > > Dennis Lee Miles > > (*evprofes...@evprofessor.com <evprofes...@evprofessor.com>)* > > * Founder: **EV Tech. Institute Inc.* > > *Phone #* *(863) 289-0690 (12 noon to 12 midnight Eastern US Time)* > > *Educating yourself, does not mean you were **stupid; it means, you are > intelligent enough, **to know, that there is plenty left to learn!* > > * You Tube Video link: http://youtu.be/T-FVjMRVLss > <http://youtu.be/T-FVjMRVLss> * > -- Dennis Lee Miles (*evprofes...@evprofessor.com <evprofes...@evprofessor.com>)* * Founder: **EV Tech. Institute Inc.* *Phone #* *(863) 289-0690 (12 noon to 12 midnight Eastern US Time)* *Educating yourself, does not mean you were **stupid; it means, you are intelligent enough, **to know, that there is plenty left to learn!* * You Tube Video link: http://youtu.be/T-FVjMRVLss <http://youtu.be/T-FVjMRVLss> * _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
