Re: Writer needs info on burglar alarms

["Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's an easy one. I also saw something like this on an old Mission
Impossible episode.

Mount an identical phoney keypad on top of the real one. The phoney keypad
will capture a code and act as a real keypad. The theif can then go back at
anytime, remove the phoney keypad, whuch will display the code, then break
in at will. The same keypad can also have the ability to show armed at all
times after hours, just in case there is a guard making a tour of the
building. Not far fetched at all.

Jim Rojas


"Tim Walters" <tim.walters@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm writing a story set in 1988. One of the characters has to break into
> someone's house. He's not a burglar, but a professional architect who's
> kept
> abreast of the latest developments in household security. The alarm he has
> to disarm is up-to-date at that time. But he needs not only to deactivate
> the alarm, but also to conceal the fact that it's been disarmed.
>
> If it's an infrared heat detector with a four-digit disarming code, it
> would
> also be helpful if, after disarming the device once, he could now work out
> what that code was so as to break in again more easily later on.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Tim
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>
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