This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Car battery hack
Article: 7411 of alt.hackers From: rvw@incore.xs4all.nl (Ronald van Woensel) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Car battery hack Distribution: world Message-ID: 2f44ca37.494e434f5245@incore.xs4all.nl Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:09:27 +0100 Reply-To: rvw@incore.xs4all.nl (Ronald van Woensel) X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.03 Approved: of course X-Posting-Software: UUPC/extended 1.12jIncore inews (27Dec94 20:31) Lines: 32 Status: RO
Well, here I was, in the southern part of france, on vacation, no hacking tools available and my car battery broke down in the middle of nowhere. So what to do? Well, I noticed that the radio was still working, so the battery was still able to deliver a few milliamps, but the car couldn't start on it. Looking in the cells of the battry, i noticed that one of the cells was producing gas, so probably it was overheating or some chemical reaction was taking place. I decided that the only thing to get out of there was to use the the remaining 5 cells to somehow start the engine. The only piece of metal I had with me was a tent pin, so I rammed the tent pin in the broken cell and used a piece of wood as a hammer and it WORKED! The only thing was that the battery was now a 10volt version, so it became overcharged in no time. So when the engine was running, i unplugged one pole of the battery. For the smart guys who think: Hey, why couldn't you just give it a push, i want to add that the generator that recharges the battery itself needs a little bit of current from the battery in order to generate any current. So you CANT start a car without a battery! (at least the european cars..) Well, I was able to continue my vacation and the 10 volt battery even made it home. Question: (english is not my native language) What does 'ob' stands for in 'ObHack' etc? Is it an abbrevation for 'obliged?' 'obvious' or is it slang or so? +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Ronald van Woensel * <rvw@incore.xs4all.nl> * Incore Automatisering BV| |Haarlemmerweg 321A * 1051 LG Amsterdam * 0206842011 * The Netherlands| | OS/2: Opens up windows, shuts up gates | | Wonder Why World Wide Web Wanderers Watch http://xs4all.nl/~nail | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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