I get what you are saying, but I think this is sort of an apples and oranges thing. What I mean is, around here it is a low crime area and nobody has bars on their windows and/or doors. If I put bars on my garage window and on the door, would that not tend to signal I am trying to protect something of value inside?
Harry440 volts has gone the way of the Dodo bird, while there are some legacy flavors of 480 volts (ungrounded, grounded B phase, etc) most common is 480/277 volts, each phase to neutral is 277V, any two phases are 480V, you need two legs for 480V. BTW electrifying security bars/screens would invite all kinds of legal trouble for setting a booby trap, although I wonder how a fence charger would do.
Here there are business that make it out of 1/1 solid squares and angle steel. I have mine installed on all ground level windows for almost 30 years now. Few rust but still strong. Usually only ghetto neightborhood have these. Have this. The bars are no more than 3” apart in case they get their head stuck. Keep in mind, these day and age with cordless angle grinders, they are defeated in minutes.
I'm planning something similar for my shop.A neighbour of mine installed shutters inside his windows of his garage, a single piece of plywood either 5/8" or 3/4" I don't remember which. He hinged them at the top and had a dead bolt that locked the window and secured it in the up position for light (etc.) when he was in there. You could add other locking features as well. The out facing side was painted a dark colour so when looking in you or a potential theif couldn't see squat. Want to screw with them? Paint a large angry man's face for them to see.
as Ed Briney said, aim a few feet higher.....
The neon ****** might be considered a booby trap, a fence charger will pack a wallop but won't kill them, while I would not shed a tear if thieves were taken out & shot, it is not going to happen and that is a good thing.
Mind you, legally, I am NOT advocating this, but yeah, he was right...
I didn't know it. googled Katko, read the wiki article, interesting read, thanks for the reference!
You haven’t tried a New Zealand charger huh? I first had a 6joule Stayfix and it flattened my uncle, wife, and dog. It also made a 1000 lbs Hereford heifer go cross eyed , down to her knees and bellow like she was dying.
been watching to many movies"You haven’t tried a New Zealand charger huh?"
That's Child's play !
You really have to do a 34,000 vdc @ 25 milliamps neon transformer, (formerly from a sign at Times Square, roughly 25 lbs ).
First your body forms an arch than you fly a few feet backwards, about a foot off the ground, slam the nearest wall, slide down, remain paralyzed for almost 1/2 hour...... all the while being the most relaxed you have ever been, even more than after *** or waking up after Propofol.
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Don't you just miss those good times.
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When I was in Italy, it seemed like it was legal to boobytrap your house.
I was going to suggest using glass blocks (at any level), since I see them replacing replacing industrial windows, in bad and good neighborhoods, everywhere.
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After later comments were posted it all made sense, as much as I hate thieves someone who sets booby traps does so at their own peril.
In our warehouse the bars are hinged at the bottom and a pull rod across the top would release it. After a Reno it was removed as not to updated code. We bricked in many of the windows. Problem solved. Cannot bar them can brick them. We have enough other exits. Said barred windows can draw and trap.
This is KEY ELEMENT.
I remember going to visit the wife's relatives in Monterey Mexico in the early - mid 90s. Many of the properties while driving around I saw had broken glass from Coke bottle embedded in mortar on the tops of walls. Went down there again about 3 weeks ago. This time I mostly saw the same type of stamped steel caltrops on walls.
Its to keep birds from roosting. Its here in the states as well in places.I remember going to visit the wife's relatives in Monterey Mexico in the early - mid 90s. Many of the properties while driving around I saw had broken glass from Coke bottle embedded in mortar on the tops of walls. Went down there again about 3 weeks ago. This time I mostly saw the same type of stamped steel caltrops on walls.
uhhhhh, no. they are used strictly on the walltops along the edges so they can't easily climb up. see how the rest of the walls back from the perimeter don't have them? neither does the flat roof area of the patio entrance.Its to keep birds from roosting. Its here in the states as well in places.
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Ok, there is several different styles.uhhhhh, no. they are used strictly on the walltops along the edges so they can't easily climb up. see how the rest of the walls back from the perimeter don't have them? neither does the flat roof area of the patio entrance.
the bird spikes are usually much more densely clustered and they are shaped like needles not caltrops to prevent the birds from nesting.
