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Old Oct 16, 2009 | 03:16 PM
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From: Stoke on Trent
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you want 2 alarms. One An easily visible deterrant alarm for when you open the door to either scare off thick CHAVs and/or to waste the time of a professional thief so they spend the 10 seconds it takes to rip it off and smash it. That will give your second alarm time to send you a text.

You could build an SMS based alarm system yourself and use a power invertor on a 12v car battery. You could add a small solar panel to lengthen the battery life (small alarms dont draw much).

But remember you need to check on it regularly to swap battery with a spare.
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