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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: electronics fog horn
Message-ID: <1939@argus.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 90 21:20:19 GMT
References: <1990Jul16.220245.6545@mtcchi.uucp> <1990Jul18.172626.29473@ariel.unm.edu>
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In article <1990Jul18.172626.29473@ariel.unm.edu>, ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes:
: You can get electrically-driven (12v) compressor/reservoir/airhorn combos
: that may be what you want. They're electrically activated, too. A friend put
: one in his little Nipponese car about ten years back. Scared the feces out
: of me.... I don't recall the supplier...J.C. Whitney it may have been.

HeeHeeHee.  My father has this interesting habit of "enhancing" the
characteristics of everything he is around.  When we got the first
non American pickup truck (Toyota) he was, um, mildly displeased with
the <beep> toy horn.  Rumaging around the basement he found the air horn
that was required by the Coast Guard (or some such agency) back when we
had the boat.  So a couple weekends later he had a real horn, switchable
with a switch on the dash.  Well, the next day, my mother had to take the
car to inspection, and didn't know about this switch.  Part of inspection
was to toot the horn.  According to her, the sound reverberated in the
hanger style garage and everyone turned around wondering what the hell
that was.  She was furious that night, but my dad and I couldn't stop
giggling :-).