RE: Of Mice and HV (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:16:11 -0400
From: Chris Boden <cboden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'High Voltage list' <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Of Mice and HV (fwd)

I designed a similar type of setup we called the "Coon Cannon".

Take a 6" piece of PVC pipe about 2' long. Cap one end. Mount of pair of
Carriage bolts about 6" from the capped end with the Heads inside the pipe.
Connect these to a large cap (like one of our 300lbs coin crusher caps). 
Place bait in the end-cap, and setup your charging system.

Raccoon/Opossum/Skunk/Rat, etc wanders in the pipe, gets to the foot, and
closes the circuit.

*FOOMP*

Trap is self cleaning and self resetting.


Chris Boden
www.thegeekgroup.org



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Subject: Re: Of Mice and HV (fwd)

Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:31:40 -0700
From: D.C. Cox <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Of Mice and HV (fwd)


Just use a 15 kV 30 mA NST to charge a nice fat cap (from old microwaves) 
thru a HV diode.  It won't dim your lights and the cap discharge will 
definitely put the mouse in orbit.

Dr. Resonance


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>>Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>>Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:02:05 +0200
>>From: Finn Hammer <f-h@xxxx>
>>To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: Re: Of Mice and HV (fwd)
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>>Great idea!
>>
>>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.
>>
>>You probably have to build  some sort of  sensor to verify that the
>>mouse is lined up between the electrodes. When it is in position, squirt
>>liquid conductor on the critter, and gate SCR.
>
> Rats, at least, will detect the E-field.  Many years ago I had a huge
> rat invade my basement.  He carried off my entire year's crop of
> potatoes in just a few days.  After failing with a rat trap and a
> steel jaw trap, I made an electric trap.  I took a piece of approx 2
> ft square one sided PCB board and etched about 1" stripes separated by
> about half an inch.  I jumpered alternate stripes together and hooked
> the two sets to opposite sides of a 5kv, 5 amp plate transformer.  A
> short wooden post in the center held the bait.
>
> The rate didn't get near the thing.  I figures out that he must be
> sensing the field so I added a prox switch to the bait holder that
> would switch on the high voltage when he touched the bait.
>
> A few hours after I put it out, the lights in the house dimmed and
> then a breaker snapped.  GOTCHA!  I'd caught him flat-footed on the
> grid with his nose just barely touching the bait.  Crispy little feet,
> they were.
>
> I've used smaller versions of this for mice control for years.  I like
> plate transformers over current limited transformers such as neon
> transformers because the kill is so instantaneous.
>
> A solid state fuse will limit the current if you don't want to blow a
> house breaker.  I've also used low value (5-10 amp) magnetic type
> breakers with about equal success.
>
> John
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