Re Bag alarm etc.

[Kari Eloranta <eloranta@lammio.hut.fi>]

The bag alarm idea by Ted is excellent. Need to do some testing to  
find a reliable unit though. Given all the spontaneously tripping  
car alarms etc. around us daily I'd really like to make sure this  
one works as intended. Many of the motion sensors in cars are overly  
sensitive to low frequency noise hence false alarms indoors in  
parking garages etc. I think these types of units are perhaps not  
suitable. Neither are those with just a dead steelwire coming out.  
Something that has a wired loop coming out could be ok. If they are  
either ripped or cut (breaks the circuit) it sounds.

Also, these gadgets only really work with hard cases as soft ones  
the thief can slice open. The metal ones tend to be heavy. Are the  
lighter fibreglass/plastic hard cases anywere near as tough as  
Halliburtons?

Ah, I'm starting to look like a paranoid... Just had a month of  
guatemalan countryside. Amazingly all my stuff is still with me.  
Partly because of sheer luck. There you face every morning the  
choice of trusting a shady hotel manager to keep your back-up gear  
or carrying it all day determied to fight for it if so be...

Cheers,

Kari Eloranta