RE: Of Mice and HV (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:01:19 -0700
From: Jonathan Peakall <jpeakall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Of Mice and HV (fwd)

Hi All,

> Yeah. After all, they are "intelligently designed"
> vermin!
>
> Adam
>
> >
> > I think animals will be able to sense the E-field
> > from charged plates
> > far away, so they will be reluctant to enter between
> > them.
>

My one experience with HV and animals.....

I had a racoon persistantly breaking into my house and eating dog food. Of
course, the dog didn't like that, would go crazy and chase the racoon out of
the house. I live in a hippie shack in the middle of the woods, and it is
impossible to keep animals out, unless I changed the fron door completely.

Anyway, one night I put 1/2 of a 15kV, 60mA NST to the dogs bowl (metal
bowl) with a switch next to my bed. When I heard the racoon messing around,
I made sure the dog was in bed (yes, she gets to sleep on my bed) and I hit
the switch. A loud screech, unlike anything I have heard out of a racoon,
and then it left the house, never to return.

It seems to me that a always lethal jolt is always going to leave a mess. I
use a fully automated vermin destruction device for mice etc, because my
house can never be made tight enough to keep 'em out. It's called a cat.
Works great for me, although they do occasionally leave a "present" for me.

Jonathan