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From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 23:45:33 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 00:06:41 -0400
Subject: Re: Vehicle Shutdown?


 >Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 19:52:18 +0100
 >From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
 >Subject: Re: Vehicle Shutdown?
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@sympatico.ca>


 >>In a case I investigated in 1971 a young lady reported her car
 >>as she drove along a rural road (actually a long driveway
 >>to her house) when there was a light over the car.
 >>It was a small sports car (Triumph, I think).

<snip>

 >>I did not get to the case until long after the radio had been
 >>repaired. The guy who fixed it said he simply changed
 >>transistors one after the other until the radio worked again.
 >>Unfortunately he did not keep track of which transistor had
 >>blown out.

 >>If he had we might have obtained som useful information on which
 >>circuits in the radio were (apparently) overloaded with current.

 >I had one similar case where the witness was a service engineer
 >and had a radio transceiver to contact base. This failed to work
 >afterwards and was taken apart by the base engineers in an
 >attempt to fix it. In the end it was cheaper to replace. >

 >The engineer told us that an enormous power surge was picked up,
 >possibly by the aerial, and must have been similar in magnitude
 >to a lightning strike. It literally blew apart the diode
 >circuits inside the radio transceiver frying all the internal
 >circuits.

I suspect something like that, but at a much lower level,
destroyed one of the transistors in th girl's car radio.