The coil and capacitor form a tuned circuit. This circuit in turn is activated by a magnetic field generated by the alarm system near the door. When the tuned circuit activates the change in the magnetic field is detected in the alarm system and the alarm is activated. This means the circuit in the lock itself requires no batteries or sounder and is not powered unless someone tries to take it past the alarm system.
@JaysonSR That's what it is. The gates on the doors are themselves coils, powered by an alternating current at some moderate frequency (a few hundred kHz probably). Thus, the gates have an alternating electromagnetic field around them. That makes the coil in the bottle act like the secondary winding of a transformer: a current is generated in the bottle coil. The capacitor means it's an LC tank circuit, so it has one specific resonance frequency. This resonance frequency is very close to the transmission frequency of the gates. When the bottle cap goes near the gates, the resonance couples energy from the gates transmission, which can be sensed by circuitry in the gates (to greatly simplify, the power consumption goes up a tiny bit). The gates then alarm that someone is trying to steal something.
I figure one of two things happened here: 1. Bill was told in advance what the actual contents of the bottle were. B. Bill trusts the supposed sender of the bottle enough to drink it anyway. My money is on #1, because “B” seems like it would be uncharacteristic of Bill.
@@shubinternet or C: bill already picked and opened it beforehand and put a sample of the fluid in his portable spectral analiser he keeps in his apocalypse shelter. ...or D: he already picked it beforehand, emptied the bottle, rinsed it out and filled it with the strongest bourbon he could find and he's off drinking it now, whilst obliterating the canister full of the original liquid with whatever appropriate ordnance he has to hand. ...I'm going for (D).
I think it is much more inside (+ what you said) , near the wine/alcohol rack there should be a receiver and if somebody with a big magnet tries to unlock the lock, the coil will send the electrical impulse to the RF emitter that will go to the receiver near the rack that will trip the store alarm in that area (you need 2 smaller magnets on each side to not trip the alarm)...
@@Narinjas That's not how it's done, the tuned circuit is detected by the alarm gates at the exit. What you are talking about could actually be theoretically possible since the tuned circuit would change it's resonant frequency in the presence of a large magnet, it's just not feasible to have equipment that can detect this reliably with a low chance of false triggering since you don't know what the new resonant frequency would be so you would have to look for sudden appearances of new resonant objects, it would also be far to expensive to cover the entire store with these sensors.
I think it is much more inside (+ what you said) , near the wine/alcohol rack there should be a receiver and if somebody with a big magnet tries to unlock the lock, the coil will send the electrical impulse to the RF emitter that will go to the receiver near the rack that will trip the store alarm in that area (you need 2 smaller magnets on each side to not trip the alarm)...
@@Narinjas Such a system would be too expensive and overcomplicated. There are too many variables in such a system and it’s impossible to configure it. How many bottles are on the shelf? How far apart are they? With each rearrangement of each bottle the system will have to be reconfigured. How to deal with interference? People with different devices like smartphones are walking around, etc. etc. Practically impossible task. So it's simple. Ordinary anti-theft gate at the exit.
just heard you have fully retired. All the best, this was one of my fav vids hope you enjoy all your whisky in the future and thenk you for all the info you have given in your time here.
Happy retirement Bill! Thank you for the absolute wealth of knowledge you've provided over the years and the countless viewers you've helped make more sensible choices of locks.
Morning Bill, good video. That is a retail theft alarm that accepts an alpha key just like most other retail theft alarms. That coil is to trip the alarms at the door of a retail establishment.
The coil will be powered by radio frequency when you pass by those barriers they put by shop entrances. The barriers will pick up the current draw from the about to be stolen item and set off the alarm.
While several of the comments are somewhat correct about the operation of the inductor/coil combo I have not seen any regarding the exact operation of the device. The capacitor and coil form a resonant circuit, called a tank circuit. The detector is a transmitter that sweeps a band of frequencies. For example, if the tank circuit was tuned to 200kHz the detector would sweep a range from 175kHz to 225kHz. During that time, the detector would be monitoring for a change in current during a few concurrent sweeps. When the transmitted frequency is not at the resonate point of the tank circuit while the device is in the detector field there would be more current detected in the transmitter. At resonance, the current would radically drop to nearly zero. This change in current is what the door sensor detects. The detection of the change in current due to absorption is called backscatter modulation. If no device is in the field there would be no changed in current during the sweep, therefore nothing would be detected.
Or no other device that behaves similarly is in the field. There are a few things that are notorious for causing false alarms. Coils of unshielded twisted pair are perhaps the best example I've seen. I've bought bulk wire by the foot, and there is no security tag on the wire. I pay, I leave, and the wire almost always triggers the door alarm. I've inspected the wire, made sure there was no tag, I stood back while I held the wire between the gates and ... beep, beeep-beeep-beeep. The cashiers tell me it regularly happens with UTP bulk wire.
I do believe the correct term for the metal locking cylindrical rods wouldn't be magnetic but "ferrous." No harm no foul. And like others have said, the coil picks up the frequency at the door and triggers the alarm in the same way as those small white stickers at department stores.
I figured Bill has a family member who is a graphic artist and made him a thousand different intros. Only one time did I notice a repeated intro. Thou I generally skip them these days.
Passive radio. It transmits without electrical switch contacts through the saturation of the ferrite and coil by a big magnet. The small localized magnets probably doesn't saturate the induction coil. When saturated by a big magnet, the reradiated signal is tuned to a monitored frequency. It requires the presence of a remote transmitter to supply energy.
Ah ha, that's what it is!!! I found one of these in my garden, thrown over the fence , I worked out how to open it but guessed it was for a gas bottle.
I think a glaring point here is that "David" stole 2 bottles of alcohol from a store, removed the security caps, drank the booze and sent the devices to you Bill. Nice! Now you're an accessory to the crime. 🤣
The thin rectangular labels are a printed L/C tank circuit, and there's a crimp area that shorts out if the tank is subjected to a relatively strong signal. I think it's around 8.5 mhz from memory. Those ones are from checkpoint, and can sometimes be set off by some ID cards. The Sensormatic EAS tags have a metglass resonator which is biased by a magnetized strip of steel. These work by driving the coil by the door for a short time at the resonant frequency, then looking for the ringing signal from the strip. The setup can also pick up the ringing from the L/C tank circuits used in some of the reusable cases. These ones cannot be deactivated with a strong magnet. The older, larger tags were resonant at around 58khz. It's been years since I looked at this though.
7:00 most know by now this is the RfID security coil. It's a coper wire coil around a ferrite slug with a capacitor tuned to a very specific frequency. When you take the bottle past the retail door there is large antennas sending out energy. This coil in your lock acts as an antenna receiving the energy stored in the capacitor and responds with its resonating frequency. The system much like a metal detector is triggered by the very specific frequency response setting off the alarm. Fun fact back in the 1990's when I was in collage I had my first experience with these system. Our collage library had security tags in the books as a method to ensure students checked the book out properly. Well in the 1990's cellular data was not at all what it is today. We used the land line telephone system to dial up bulletin board system and the beginnings of the internet over phone modems. This being our routine I had about ten feet of coper phone cable that had been wrapped up in a coil around my hand, about five inches in diameter, and stored in my book bag for modem use. When I left the library one day the alarm went off and we identified the spooled up copper wire even without any other components was enough to provide the proper resonating frequency response setting off the alarm. Fun stuff often easily bypassed after you spend no more than a few seconds studying the design.
Coil is to trigger the portals on the sides of the entrance. It is powered by a RF field emitted by the portals. A bit like the chip in your car key for the immobilizer. This circuit is just massively more simple...All it does is resonate when subjected to the field from the portals and they can detect the change in field and sound the alarm.
I actually hated trying to undo those things when I worked for a local grocery store back in 2007. California is now moving away from those locks as everything is going behind glass cabinets now. It was normally used on mid to mid-high range price liquor. High priced range liquor was in cabinets then had one of these put on if you were going to be doing more shopping. The lock itself never made a sound, just the door sensors.
In the UK a lot of stores are moving to stickers with the coil and circuit printed in, some brands are even embedding the technology into the label for the very big stores. The stickers are super cheap to produce... When they are hit by the magnet at the till it usually kills the circuit though you occasionally set the alarm off on the way out.
@@frainy345 yeah California had them for a while, but they were to much of a hassle for liquor that was out on the shelf as they add some hight, and stores never had enough of them. It makes sense to get rid of them.
It's old rfid type tech. The emitter at the door exites the antenna and induces enough power to transmit back at a slightly different frequency, which the gate thing is also listening for. I think that's how those work.
That circuitry in the lid is a coil of wire with a capacitor attached, wrapped around what I think is an iron bar. My guess is that it's not an alarm itself but would trigger those anti theft panels you see at the exit of a store. They probably emit a magnetic field (probably varying using electromagnets) which then induces a current in the circuit, which can then be detected on the panel side. The same way an NFC card reader works. Provide a magnetic field using a coil, a coil in the card or fob draws power from it to run the circuitry which modulates its power usage to send data back to the source.
It's a ferrite rod which acts like a loopstick antenna along with the capacitor. The two panels you pass through before you go out the door generate a magnetic field and this generates a current in the loopstick. The magnetic field current changes and this is detected, sounding the alarm. It is like the RFID circuits nowadays but much simpler. Sometimes you see the foil pattern on a sticker which works in a similar manner.
Alpha is a well known brand of magnetic security lock used quite frequently in Stores to protect high theft items. The coil will set off an alarm if you try to leave the store with the lock attached. There are many different styles of alpha lock, from boxes to contain dvds, to bottle locks such as the one you see here. I can send you the actual tool used to open these locks if you’d like, but they are readily available on Amazon and eBay for next to nothing.
The anti-theft systems where a pain the back to put on in the supermarket, they also don't fit a certain types of bottle well so you can get them off really easily (sort necked whisky bottles).
@@robertcowling4313 honestly does not surprise the amount of work i was expected to do lead to me super rushing they probably broke it prior to putting it on and just hid it with anti - theft thing
used to see these popped off at the spirits aisle at walmart. they fixed the issue by moving the spirits to a locked glass case at the register. walmart also locks up socks, batteries, jeans and body wash and therres NEVER anyone around with a key when you want to buy these items.
Worked in a Blockbuster, many years ago when they were a thing. Razor-blade to the spine of the case was the way most of the thieves did it. Then there was the one dumbass that smashed a window with a rock, walked pass the racks of new retail-sale DVDs, including a case full of box sets that were $100+ each, and stole the cheapass TV from the DirecTV demo station.
The coil is a resonator, The gates you pass through at the doors generate a magnetic field at the same frequency as the coil resonates, and they pick up that new field from the coil.
I got a pair of bottles from a click-n-collect recently with Bottlelox gadgets still attached. I don't have a powerful enough magnet to pull its release levers so it's destruction time. The whole design is extremely clever, good job BottleLox. After some youtubes I see you used to be able to shim it with a plastic knife but these ones have fixed that vulnerability with an extra shutter to block access up the neck of the bottle. Anyway, still got one to deal with, Dremel time!
@@penfold7800 @Pen Fold What? Wow that's mental! And brilliant. Well since I didn't get to it yet, I'll give it a try with my fingersquisher hard drive magnets. I saw a vid of a guy properly removing one with a puck magnet but I didn't click to why he thumped it onto the puck. Thank you very much, Pen Fold.
It's a magnetic lock and the key lines up in the 2 squares in the top. It usually is designed to set off the sensors installed at the entrances/exits of the stores.
Hi Bill, as the other comments have indicated, the ferrite rod, coil and capacitor are just a giant version of an RFID key fob, for the retailers loss prevention system.
Alpha branding should be your first clue. They make a ton of in-store security devices and the magnetic "keys" to open them. We have to use our Alpha key to move the security bar on the pegs that hold flashlights and game cameras. If you see Alpha branding look for the notches or holes to tell you where to put your magnets.
Alot of those RF alarm are essentially powered by the emitter and sensors at the door. When the coil or sliver of metal is hit with RF waves in the right freq range they vibrate and trip the alarm system of the store
The coil component is I believe called a non-linear junction. And at the entrance to stores you sometimes see the large hoops (these are non-linear detectors) The hopes transmit a signal which is picked up by the Bottletop and that reflects the harmonic of the frequency transmitted by the hoop back. The receiver part of the hoop Is tuned to listen for that harmonic and set off an alarm.
Shop security. Like a an anti theft tag or sticker on other merch, as everybody else already noted. But I commented and perhaps the "algorithm" is happy.
Southern comfort.. I can't drink that stuff.. my friend and I stole a bottle from his dad when we were about 10 or 11 and went out in the field to drink it.. our first touch of alcohol. Well we got busted I got sick for two days and could not even stand the smell.. But for awhile there we were kings of all we saw.. Thanks Bill that was fun..
Bill, look up alpha security. They have a ton of theft deterrents and many "alpha keys". Most seem to be locked with a spring steel. 🤔 could be fun for you to try different magnet attacks on some.
The square holes are alignment holes for the two pegs on the strong magnetic key to get the magnets in just the right place. Alpha has an entire line of these products.
I don't know anything about anything, but I was wondering if you were meant to induce an electrical charge into the coil, which turns the bar into an electromagnet, which then attracts the 2 ferrous pins, which releases the lock. A way to use it in practice would be for there to be a permanently mounted station where you could bring the lock into close contact with the bottle in an upright position and like a wireless cell phone charger, it acts on the coil....
ICE TEA!!!? ...well at least it was a drinkable fluid. Kind of reminds me of the dodgy street vodka sellers with bottles of water and plastic cups with real vodka only smeared round the outside. Lol.
The alarm works like the clothing tags in a department store. Just a coil to induce voltage and a capacitor to hold it and the door way see that and trips the alarm.
It's an anti theft device for retail stores. The coil sets off the pedestal alarms on the entrance and exit doors. Hmmm how did they come into his possession 🤔
My guess is Bill knew it wasn't liquor. That would have been one heck of a large swig if it really was Southern Comfort. Also, it is illegal to mail or ship liquor. It has to go from one special permit holder to another, not from or to an individual. Still, it is an interesting video.
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The coil and capacitor form a tuned circuit. This circuit in turn is activated by a magnetic field generated by the alarm system near the door. When the tuned circuit activates the change in the magnetic field is detected in the alarm system and the alarm is activated. This means the circuit in the lock itself requires no batteries or sounder and is not powered unless someone tries to take it past the alarm system.
Great explanation.
@JaysonSR That's what it is. The gates on the doors are themselves coils, powered by an alternating current at some moderate frequency (a few hundred kHz probably). Thus, the gates have an alternating electromagnetic field around them. That makes the coil in the bottle act like the secondary winding of a transformer: a current is generated in the bottle coil. The capacitor means it's an LC tank circuit, so it has one specific resonance frequency. This resonance frequency is very close to the transmission frequency of the gates. When the bottle cap goes near the gates, the resonance couples energy from the gates transmission, which can be sensed by circuitry in the gates (to greatly simplify, the power consumption goes up a tiny bit). The gates then alarm that someone is trying to steal something.
Very similar to some of the old security tabs at clothing stores.
@@K-Riz314 they are the same
@JaysonSR Thus, paralell resonant L-C circuit tuned to a particular frequency.
"That wasn't sealed"
*takes a drink*
Was good knowing you bill!
Hahahaha!!!
I figure one of two things happened here:
1. Bill was told in advance what the actual contents of the bottle were.
B. Bill trusts the supposed sender of the bottle enough to drink it anyway.
My money is on #1, because “B” seems like it would be uncharacteristic of Bill.
Never buy apple juice from a homeless man.
My guess is Bill knew that wasn't liquor. The size of a swig that he took would be pretty powerful if it really was Southern Comfort.
@@shubinternet or C: bill already picked and opened it beforehand and put a sample of the fluid in his portable spectral analiser he keeps in his apocalypse shelter. ...or D: he already picked it beforehand, emptied the bottle, rinsed it out and filled it with the strongest bourbon he could find and he's off drinking it now, whilst obliterating the canister full of the original liquid with whatever appropriate ordnance he has to hand. ...I'm going for (D).
The coil thing just triggers the alarm at the door when you try to leave with it.
I think it is much more inside (+ what you said) , near the wine/alcohol rack there should be a receiver and if somebody with a big magnet tries to unlock the lock, the coil will send the electrical impulse to the RF emitter that will go to the receiver near the rack that will trip the store alarm in that area (you need 2 smaller magnets on each side to not trip the alarm)...
@@Narinjas That's not how it's done, the tuned circuit is detected by the alarm gates at the exit.
What you are talking about could actually be theoretically possible since the tuned circuit would change it's resonant frequency in the presence of a large magnet, it's just not feasible to have equipment that can detect this reliably with a low chance of false triggering since you don't know what the new resonant frequency would be so you would have to look for sudden appearances of new resonant objects, it would also be far to expensive to cover the entire store with these sensors.
big magnet if that dont work cover lock with tin foil you dont set the alarm off that way
@@Ghlargh low chance of false alarm doesnt matter. That's the security guys job.
"Breakfast" 😆
Dang was funny!!! LOL
This coil triggers an alarm on the anti-theft gate.
I think it is much more inside (+ what you said) , near the wine/alcohol rack there should be a receiver and if somebody with a big magnet tries to unlock the lock, the coil will send the electrical impulse to the RF emitter that will go to the receiver near the rack that will trip the store alarm in that area (you need 2 smaller magnets on each side to not trip the alarm)...
@@Narinjas Such a system would be too expensive and overcomplicated. There are too many variables in such a system and it’s impossible to configure it. How many bottles are on the shelf? How far apart are they? With each rearrangement of each bottle the system will have to be reconfigured. How to deal with interference? People with different devices like smartphones are walking around, etc. etc. Practically impossible task. So it's simple. Ordinary anti-theft gate at the exit.
@@Narinjas It's just a simple LC circuit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC_circuit
just heard you have fully retired. All the best, this was one of my fav vids hope you enjoy all your whisky in the future and thenk you for all the info you have given in your time here.
Move my hand down so it doesn’t stab me in the hand......... OY!! How I have lived this pain too many times. 😱
gloves, tis the trick.
Happy retirement Bill! Thank you for the absolute wealth of knowledge you've provided over the years and the countless viewers you've helped make more sensible choices of locks.
Happy retirement! Thanks for all the knowledge you’ve shared
Morning Bill, good video. That is a retail theft alarm that accepts an alpha key just like most other retail theft alarms. That coil is to trip the alarms at the door of a retail establishment.
The coil will be powered by radio frequency when you pass by those barriers they put by shop entrances. The barriers will pick up the current draw from the about to be stolen item and set off the alarm.
"Current draw?" You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means...
Happy UA-cam Retirement! Lockpicking lawyer sent me. Thank you for sharing knowledge over the years, I have plenty of videos of your to catch up on.
While several of the comments are somewhat correct about the operation of the inductor/coil combo I have not seen any regarding the exact operation of the device. The capacitor and coil form a resonant circuit, called a tank circuit. The detector is a transmitter that sweeps a band of frequencies. For example, if the tank circuit was tuned to 200kHz the detector would sweep a range from 175kHz to 225kHz. During that time, the detector would be monitoring for a change in current during a few concurrent sweeps. When the transmitted frequency is not at the resonate point of the tank circuit while the device is in the detector field there would be more current detected in the transmitter. At resonance, the current would radically drop to nearly zero. This change in current is what the door sensor detects. The detection of the change in current due to absorption is called backscatter modulation. If no device is in the field there would be no changed in current during the sweep, therefore nothing would be detected.
Or no other device that behaves similarly is in the field. There are a few things that are notorious for causing false alarms. Coils of unshielded twisted pair are perhaps the best example I've seen. I've bought bulk wire by the foot, and there is no security tag on the wire. I pay, I leave, and the wire almost always triggers the door alarm. I've inspected the wire, made sure there was no tag, I stood back while I held the wire between the gates and ... beep, beeep-beeep-beeep. The cashiers tell me it regularly happens with UTP bulk wire.
David did a nice job of setting you up for a great video with a homemade key and a cutaway. The ice tea keeps you super. Great video!
Thanks. I sent the bottle empty. I guess Bill filled it with tea? lol
The ol’ ice tea in a whisky bottle trick. Did this to my dad when I was young. He wasn’t very happy. Keep up the great vids, bill
I was not as creative. I replaced my dad's Vodka with water. Sheesh, way to underperform. lol
I think that "Alarm" is related to the sound of defence frame situated at shop's entrance...
I do believe the correct term for the metal locking cylindrical rods wouldn't be magnetic but "ferrous." No harm no foul. And like others have said, the coil picks up the frequency at the door and triggers the alarm in the same way as those small white stickers at department stores.
GOOD LUCK BILL! Thanks for all you did! You will be missed!
I don't think most people appreciate how often you change your intro but it takes work and your time also
I figured Bill has a family member who is a graphic artist and made him a thousand different intros. Only one time did I notice a repeated intro. Thou I generally skip them these days.
I was pretty sure they are fan submitted. But now I'm curious.
I don't think I've noticed any intro repeats. It's one of the few things that Bill does that doesn't draw blood...
the only repeats I noticed was that old iPhone ring tone beat, but only like two or three times out of his thousand of videos
@@gworfish He said a while ago in the comments, that he made them iirc.
Passive radio. It transmits without electrical switch contacts through the saturation of the ferrite and coil by a big magnet. The small localized magnets probably doesn't saturate the induction coil. When saturated by a big magnet, the reradiated signal is tuned to a monitored frequency. It requires the presence of a remote transmitter to supply energy.
Ah ha, that's what it is!!! I found one of these in my garden, thrown over the fence , I worked out how to open it but guessed it was for a gas bottle.
I think a glaring point here is that "David" stole 2 bottles of alcohol from a store, removed the security caps, drank the booze and sent the devices to you Bill. Nice! Now you're an accessory to the crime. 🤣
😀. Several assumptions here... You should Google “Burden of proof”...
@@bosnianbill The 'proof of the bourbon' in this video was zero so you must be innocent. 😀
@@IanXMiller lol, bourbon of proof. Well done
And we don't know if he put something in the ice tea. 🥴
Someone CALL THE A A
The thin rectangular labels are a printed L/C tank circuit, and there's a crimp area that shorts out if the tank is subjected to a relatively strong signal. I think it's around 8.5 mhz from memory. Those ones are from checkpoint, and can sometimes be set off by some ID cards. The Sensormatic EAS tags have a metglass resonator which is biased by a magnetized strip of steel. These work by driving the coil by the door for a short time at the resonant frequency, then looking for the ringing signal from the strip. The setup can also pick up the ringing from the L/C tank circuits used in some of the reusable cases. These ones cannot be deactivated with a strong magnet. The older, larger tags were resonant at around 58khz. It's been years since I looked at this though.
7:00 most know by now this is the RfID security coil. It's a coper wire coil around a ferrite slug with a capacitor tuned to a very specific frequency. When you take the bottle past the retail door there is large antennas sending out energy. This coil in your lock acts as an antenna receiving the energy stored in the capacitor and responds with its resonating frequency. The system much like a metal detector is triggered by the very specific frequency response setting off the alarm.
Fun fact back in the 1990's when I was in collage I had my first experience with these system. Our collage library had security tags in the books as a method to ensure students checked the book out properly. Well in the 1990's cellular data was not at all what it is today. We used the land line telephone system to dial up bulletin board system and the beginnings of the internet over phone modems. This being our routine I had about ten feet of coper phone cable that had been wrapped up in a coil around my hand, about five inches in diameter, and stored in my book bag for modem use. When I left the library one day the alarm went off and we identified the spooled up copper wire even without any other components was enough to provide the proper resonating frequency response setting off the alarm. Fun stuff often easily bypassed after you spend no more than a few seconds studying the design.
Coil is to trigger the portals on the sides of the entrance. It is powered by a RF field emitted by the portals.
A bit like the chip in your car key for the immobilizer.
This circuit is just massively more simple...All it does is resonate when subjected to the field from the portals and they can detect the change in field and sound the alarm.
I actually hated trying to undo those things when I worked for a local grocery store back in 2007. California is now moving away from those locks as everything is going behind glass cabinets now. It was normally used on mid to mid-high range price liquor. High priced range liquor was in cabinets then had one of these put on if you were going to be doing more shopping. The lock itself never made a sound, just the door sensors.
In the UK a lot of stores are moving to stickers with the coil and circuit printed in, some brands are even embedding the technology into the label for the very big stores. The stickers are super cheap to produce... When they are hit by the magnet at the till it usually kills the circuit though you occasionally set the alarm off on the way out.
@@frainy345 yeah California had them for a while, but they were to much of a hassle for liquor that was out on the shelf as they add some hight, and stores never had enough of them. It makes sense to get rid of them.
It's old rfid type tech. The emitter at the door exites the antenna and induces enough power to transmit back at a slightly different frequency, which the gate thing is also listening for. I think that's how those work.
i think it sets off the door alarm if you try to shoplift it
That circuitry in the lid is a coil of wire with a capacitor attached, wrapped around what I think is an iron bar. My guess is that it's not an alarm itself but would trigger those anti theft panels you see at the exit of a store. They probably emit a magnetic field (probably varying using electromagnets) which then induces a current in the circuit, which can then be detected on the panel side. The same way an NFC card reader works. Provide a magnetic field using a coil, a coil in the card or fob draws power from it to run the circuitry which modulates its power usage to send data back to the source.
It's a ferrite rod which acts like a loopstick antenna along with the capacitor. The two panels you pass through before you go out the door generate a magnetic field and this generates a current in the loopstick. The magnetic field current changes and this is detected, sounding the alarm. It is like the RFID circuits nowadays but much simpler. Sometimes you see the foil pattern on a sticker which works in a similar manner.
" Sudden Discomfort" hangover juice.
Lol I KNEW that wasn’t liquor, WAY too frothy...
Alpha is a well known brand of magnetic security lock used quite frequently in Stores to protect high theft items. The coil will set off an alarm if you try to leave the store with the lock attached. There are many different styles of alpha lock, from boxes to contain dvds, to bottle locks such as the one you see here. I can send you the actual tool used to open these locks if you’d like, but they are readily available on Amazon and eBay for next to nothing.
You don’t need to “tension” the locks per se. the two indentations are merely a guide for you to position the magnets in the right place
Wats the name 2 look up on Amazon?
Please comment tool. Please and thank you
Oh shit Bill is drinking on the job!!!
You drank it... lol. Brave man.
"I'll save this for lunch..." Definitely. Breakfast is the most important... uh... meal...of the day.
Miss you Bill.. Thank you!!!
The anti-theft systems where a pain the back to put on in the supermarket, they also don't fit a certain types of bottle well so you can get them off really easily (sort necked whisky bottles).
@@robertcowling4313 honestly does not surprise the amount of work i was expected to do lead to me super rushing they probably broke it prior to putting it on and just hid it with anti - theft thing
used to see these popped off at the spirits aisle at walmart. they fixed the issue by moving the spirits to a locked glass case at the register.
walmart also locks up socks, batteries, jeans and body wash and therres NEVER anyone around with a key when you want to buy these items.
1:26 I would say normally if it were not for these two holes I would say you probably have to do... something - Bosnian Bill 2021
Iced tea!!!!!!!! Way better than southern comfort
Reminds me of a anti-theft device for DVDs. Good for keeping people honest I’d think.
Worked in a Blockbuster, many years ago when they were a thing. Razor-blade to the spine of the case was the way most of the thieves did it.
Then there was the one dumbass that smashed a window with a rock, walked pass the racks of new retail-sale DVDs, including a case full of box sets that were $100+ each, and stole the cheapass TV from the DirecTV demo station.
I knew it was tea way before he opened it. It kinda foamed up not like alcohol. Same trick that is used on TV and movies. I think Bill knew it too.
Where the hell was this when I raised 4 teenagers.
The coil is a resonator, The gates you pass through at the doors generate a magnetic field at the same frequency as the coil resonates, and they pick up that new field from the coil.
I got a pair of bottles from a click-n-collect recently with Bottlelox gadgets still attached. I don't have a powerful enough magnet to pull its release levers so it's destruction time. The whole design is extremely clever, good job BottleLox. After some youtubes I see you used to be able to shim it with a plastic knife but these ones have fixed that vulnerability with an extra shutter to block access up the neck of the bottle. Anyway, still got one to deal with, Dremel time!
You have to bash it with a magnet and pull it off within half a second, because these newer ones have a re-locker spring in them. Ingenious really
@@penfold7800 @Pen Fold What? Wow that's mental! And brilliant. Well since I didn't get to it yet, I'll give it a try with my fingersquisher hard drive magnets. I saw a vid of a guy properly removing one with a puck magnet but I didn't click to why he thumped it onto the puck. Thank you very much, Pen Fold.
Happy retirement BB!
Classic, the ol' bottle alarm for the high value swag.
Excellent presentation thank you very much for producing and posting, answered all my questions
Fortunately, it wasn't Bear Grills that send this to Bill. xD
It's a magnetic lock and the key lines up in the 2 squares in the top. It usually is designed to set off the sensors installed at the entrances/exits of the stores.
*Chugs something from a Southern Comfort bottle*
*Makes small noise of displeasure*
That is Ice Tea!
If it was Southern Comfort it'd be a big sound of displeasure.
@@ChrisM-zp5cr While I'm not a fan of soco... I mean...better than iced tea potentially lol.
Hi Bill, as the other comments have indicated, the ferrite rod, coil and capacitor are just a giant version of an RFID key fob, for the retailers loss prevention system.
Alpha branding should be your first clue. They make a ton of in-store security devices and the magnetic "keys" to open them. We have to use our Alpha key to move the security bar on the pegs that hold flashlights and game cameras. If you see Alpha branding look for the notches or holes to tell you where to put your magnets.
Thank you for all of the great videos Bill!
Alot of those RF alarm are essentially powered by the emitter and sensors at the door. When the coil or sliver of metal is hit with RF waves in the right freq range they vibrate and trip the alarm system of the store
Taking a pull from an unsealed bottle you received in the mail? Please be more careful, Bill.
Righty tighty, lefty loosey.
Ice tea is preferred to Southern Comfort. :)
Iced Tea?? 😂 I was expecting a heavy Drink!
Drinking from an unsealed bottle 😵 lol
What a champ just wants a nice liquid breakfast
The coil component is I believe called a non-linear junction. And at the entrance to stores you sometimes see the large hoops (these are non-linear detectors)
The hopes transmit a signal which is picked up by the Bottletop and that reflects the harmonic of the frequency transmitted by the hoop back. The receiver part of the hoop Is tuned to listen for that harmonic and set off an alarm.
My kind of breakfast lol. Enjoy
See these all the time at some of the liquor stores in downtown New Orleans.
Shop security. Like a an anti theft tag or sticker on other merch, as everybody else already noted. But I commented and perhaps the "algorithm" is happy.
Happy retirement
Bill, can you develop a donut lock for me?
sure, send me som donuts and I’ll work on it...😀
The ferrite with coil and capacitor is just to trip the anti theft system at the shop. There is no alarm in the actual part on the bottle.
Southern comfort.. I can't drink that stuff.. my friend and I stole a bottle from his dad when we were about 10 or 11 and went out in the field to drink it.. our first touch of alcohol. Well we got busted I got sick for two days and could not even stand the smell.. But for awhile there we were kings of all we saw.. Thanks Bill that was fun..
Bill, look up alpha security. They have a ton of theft deterrents and many "alpha keys". Most seem to be locked with a spring steel. 🤔 could be fun for you to try different magnet attacks on some.
Iced tea?? Damn that is a disappointment! Interesting contraption none the less. Ask the wife to pour you a fresh glass of "breakfast" 😉
Pretty cool right there!
Nice one mate!! 😃👍
My guess would be the electronic part is just like those RFID tags for cloths that set a alarm off if you leave the shop without paying.
I think I'd be more appalled if someone sent me Southern Comfort.
You've got your priorities wrong buddy
@@bryanp.1327 I've always preferred Jim and there was no comfort in Southern Comfort.
Indeed
Top is to stop you walking through electronic gates at a shop door. Unless you remove top and leave it in the bottle shop.
Vodka makes a tasty start to the day
That is the bulkiest inventory control sensor I’ve ever seen
They're even bigger in my local store. For some bottles, you have to lift up the shelf above to get the bottles out.
The square holes are alignment holes for the two pegs on the strong magnetic key to get the magnets in just the right place. Alpha has an entire line of these products.
Whiskey locks for Bill, and icecream locks for LPL's wife will always have 0% chance of success
"That wasn't sealed..." 🤷♂️ drinks it anyway.
You and me would be good friends Bill. 😂
I don't know anything about anything, but I was wondering if you were meant to induce an electrical charge into the coil, which turns the bar into an electromagnet, which then attracts the 2 ferrous pins, which releases the lock.
A way to use it in practice would be for there to be a permanently mounted station where you could bring the lock into close contact with the bottle in an upright position and like a wireless cell phone charger, it acts on the coil....
Thanks for the video 🔑👍
ICE TEA!!!? ...well at least it was a drinkable fluid. Kind of reminds me of the dodgy street vodka sellers with bottles of water and plastic cups with real vodka only smeared round the outside. Lol.
Ok time to switch the "locks" from good whisky to 2l of soft drinks. Fun part will be walking up to cashier asking why lock the soda?
I wouldn't ask. I'd just enjoy looking at the signs of bewilderment. Maybe do it to a bottle of smoothie.
@07:28, that would be powered by an inductive field. It is basically an antenna that can be sensed by your checkpoint
" I woke up this morning and got myself a beer"
Thank you for showing this and also for the reminder that I need to buy Southern Comfort
It's a tuned circuit trigger... Before locks I was into hillbilly electronics
WTF Iced Tea??
how dare you sir....... HOW DARE YOU!!!
That would have never kept me out of it as a kid if I wanted to get into it.
The alarm works like the clothing tags in a department store. Just a coil to induce voltage and a capacitor to hold it and the door way see that and trips the alarm.
It's an anti theft device for retail stores. The coil sets off the pedestal alarms on the entrance and exit doors.
Hmmm how did they come into his possession 🤔
Nice job and video like always
My kinda breakfast. Well it was before I quit drinking anyway lol
Technically, not iced tea bec no rocks. It is movie bourbon, though.
Depends what country you're from. The US has some very strange ideas about what 'iced tea' is. They seem to think it's tea with ice in it.
@@Friend_of_the_One-Eyed_Ladies Ain't no woman like the one-eyed Goth?
My guess is Bill knew it wasn't liquor. That would have been one heck of a large swig if it really was Southern Comfort. Also, it is illegal to mail or ship liquor. It has to go from one special permit holder to another, not from or to an individual. Still, it is an interesting video.
It's so you cant steal a bottle from a store
od kud mene ovdje ...hahahah,,, svaka cast majstore
Need one to to stop drunks at home, what I was actually expecting.