How to make a TRIP-WIRE ALARM

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Hi, there, my dear friends, in this video I will show you an interesting idea how to make a strike-ball trip wire from the clothes peg and electric match.

This video demonstrates how to make an Electric match. If you planning a campfire or special effect, use this method.

[CoreyCJordan]

40 years ago, we used two clothes pins, a 9 volt battery, some hookup wire, fishing line, Estes model rocket igniters and blockbuster firecrackers to build perimeter alarms around the vegetable garden. It kept Moose and Deer from eating the plants and veggies. Jerk the fishing line, and instant BOOM. Even the boldest Moose was running full speed away. Harmless, but supremely loud.

[terrytytula]

I made a sump pump alarm using a cloths pin, you have one thumbtack with the flat surface on the inside and the other the point. you place an aspirin between the flat surface and the point. You then attach it to a piece of wood and lower it into you sump pump well above the water line. If the sump pump fails the water rises, dissolves the aspirin, the contacts touch and set off an alarm. Its saved me from a flooded basement more than once.

[guycalabrese]

In the army back in the day, we use to have tripwire mines that set of a magnesium flaremine that turned night in to day. They were supposed to be put up around defensive positions, but we had great fun rigging them around the latrine pit just outside camp😂

[escapetherace]

It's a silent alarm guys. You set it by your head, your hair catches fire and you wake up without the intruder knowing yet.
GENIUS!

[YannsKitchenUK]

This video should be renamed “How to silently burn your house down after it’s been robbed ?”

[ThethDensity]

An actual alarm/buzzer attached to the battery would be so much better. Gives me an idea for rigging trips around my property to deter intruders. Thanks.

[billymadison]

All of you critiquing what the tripwire ignited are not thinking outside of the box. This is a simple demonstration on what to use to trigger the device. Obviously anything that operates on or conducts an electric current can be used

[thepotatocrew]

did anybody else instantly think of adding a firework to it??

[bryankeith]

Good one. The siren from fire truck is a awesome alarm

[kirklamb]

My dad went to Vietnam twice. This is one of the simple triggers he taught me as a kid they used!

[darkallyrecordings]

You could definitely wire some sort of module that sends a signal (Audio, IR, Wi-fi, etc.)over shorting the circuit. You could do this with minimal modifications and additional modules. Great starting point.

Edit - Basically look at this as nothing more than a switch. You make this switch work for anything.

[HKPSGShooter]

Hook the wires to fine-grade steel wool, and attach the fuse from a 3" fireworks mortar shell. That'll get the interloper out of there real quick.

[Blargenth]

You mean tripwire ignition system.... for a claymore.

[jarodmorris]

Add equal resistance on the back side so if the trip wire is found and cut, the balance in tension is off, the piece comes out anyway and the alarm sounds

[davidhenderson]

The alarm part comes from the fire cracker (or M-80) set off by the electric match. I built those when I was a kid. I even used bottle rockets with some

[Atelierhotbox]

A quick idea, maybe use a birthday card from the local pharmacy as the device/ alarm. The audio birthday cards can be recorded, and are triggered by a similar pull-tab mechanism. Instead of the bread bag tab or plastic peace you used, try the audio mechanism, and maybe use a recorded alarm sound instead of the flare. Just a suggestion.

[truthseeker]

Gonna have to have awfully good hearing to hear that alarm go off.. LOL

[johnknorr]

That’s a great idea I used something little bigger scale I was in Vietnam we called it a mechanical ambush using a bigger battery from a radio trust me it worked very well

[ApostleBenDover]

“The tree is on fire, I think we have bears!”

[Nothaut]

The idea isn't simply setting off the flammable material at the ends of the leads. You can connect something else to the leads to send an electrical signal to trigger another device once the trap goes off.