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From: John De Armond
Newsgroups: misc.rural
Subject: Re: Type of Rat
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:19:15 -0500
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:17:00 -0600, maradcliff@UNLISTED.com wrote:


>>So long as no pet animals can enter this room,
>>you can safely leave a live wire to electrocute the rat.
>
>Hey, I like that idea....
>Maybe a small piece of tin mounted on a block of wood and hooked to
>the hot side of the outlet.  Get a couple legs on that tin and the
>others on the cement floor and zap....
>
>Im going to try that....
>My pets dont go in there unless I put them in.  Obviously they will be
>kept out while this is turned on.

BTDT, didn't work.  The suckers can smell the charge or something.

I etched a grid on a large piece of printed circuit board and
connected alternating strips to a 5kv, 1 amp plate transformer.  I put
some bait right in the center.  Turn the juice on, the rat ignored it.
Turn the juice off, he cleaned out the bait.

In the end I got him.  I rigged up a proximity detector to the bait so
the juice would not turn on until he was on the grid and touching the
bait.  BLAMO!  Blew the sucker's feet off!

John


From: John De Armond
Newsgroups: misc.rural
Subject: Re: Type of Rat
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:09:53 -0500
Message-ID: <h9o0n2d19qdv7asc7rnome4aduftcbab4m@4ax.com>

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:47:44 -0600, unsettled <unsettled@nonsense.com>
wrote:

>Neon John wrote:

>> In the end I got him.  I rigged up a proximity detector to the bait so
>> the juice would not turn on until he was on the grid and touching the
>> bait.  BLAMO!  Blew the sucker's feet off!
>
>Interesting. I have a "rat zapper" which is the charged plates
>gambit in a plastic tunnel and it gets them all the time.

Is that one of those commercially available ones where the varmint
crawls in a tunnel and gets electrocuted?  If it's like mine then
there is an optical sensor that turns on the juice only after the
booger is in on the grid.  A variation of my design, basically.

>
>Maybe the problem you folks have is that you're using AC. I've
>had discussions with women who can actually hear the 60hz in
>an ordinary incandescent light bulb.

Oh that's easy to hear if you have good high frequency hearing.  I can
easily hear the harmonics of a straight unsupported filament.

>
>Maybe the critters can home in on some sort of buzz not obvious
>to us. I'll bet you can get it done quick and easy if you use
>well filtered DC.

Don't know.  I suspect that they can smell the ozone or maybe even
detect the electric field.  There's probably some literature on that
out there, considering how much rats have been studied.

John


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