How much electrical power does it take to kill a mouse "in seconds"?

[Minerva]

We found mouse droppings in several rooms and my cat has been interested but isn't very good at catching them.

I send my brother to the store to get mousetraps. He comes back with these:

http://www.victorpest.com/electronic_pest_control.htm

It says it kills within seconds and a set of four AA cells can kill 50 mice! :shocked:

It does have a sort of maze before the contact pads inside so the critter can't back out but it must have a pretty good shock. I would not want to touch it. :Q

 

[Steve]

I thought this was about a computer mouse. I was going to ask PS/2 or USB?

 

[CPA]

I had to remove a mouse sticky trap from the back of one of our cats this morning. Not sure how he got into it.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Minerva
We found mouse droppings in several rooms and my cat has been interested but isn't very good at catching them.

I send my brother to the store to get mousetraps. He comes back with these:

http://www.victorpest.com/electronic_pest_control.htm

It says it kills within seconds and a set of four AA cells can kill 50 mice! :shocked:

It does have a sort of maze before the contact pads inside so the critter can't back out but it must have a pretty good shock. I would not want to touch it. :Q

high current and a switching power supply. Can all be done in silicon cheaply, same principal as a taser except optimized to kill.

 

[FoBoT]

this sounds like fun

 

[Journer]

ooo...this could be interesting when i'm drunk >)

 

[Minerva]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Minerva
We found mouse droppings in several rooms and my cat has been interested but isn't very good at catching them.

I send my brother to the store to get mousetraps. He comes back with these:

http://www.victorpest.com/electronic_pest_control.htm

It says it kills within seconds and a set of four AA cells can kill 50 mice! :shocked:

It does have a sort of maze before the contact pads inside so the critter can't back out but it must have a pretty good shock. I would not want to touch it. :Q

high current and a switching power supply. Can all be done in silicon cheaply, same principal as a taser except optimized to kill.

I know how it's done with SMPS but the question is how much current? The stun guns are about 60kV at 60-90 microamperes and they jolt like hell. My brother is going to stick a hot dog in it to see what kind of noise it makes. I'll laugh if he gets shocked!

 

[Minerva]

Originally posted by: sm8000
I thought this was about a computer mouse. I was going to ask PS/2 or USB?

One of them got into a box of Trix. So this one is a nine pin cereal mouse. :laugh:

I really don't like hurting animals but when they start chewing wires and crap they MUST go now!!!

 

[Aquaman]

when we had a mouse problem 2 years ago....... we used sticky traps & snap traps........ worked like a charm

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[D1gger]

We had a mouse problem a few years ago, and we tried all kinds of different traps (I didn't see those electric traps or I would have tried them), it turns out the most effective traps were the original M150 Snap Traps.

 

[Mark R]

A mouse chewed into some house wiring at home - it chewed in to a 240 V 32 A circuit (exposed surface mounted 'romex' type cable - this does meet code here), and somehow managed to short it. There were little shavings of insulation everywhere, and a huge black scortch mark on the wall, and a blackened bit of wire covered in melted plastic.

No murine remains, however. How it survived, I don't know - either that or it got totally vaporized, but that seems unlikely.

 

[joecool]

i love the video ... notice how they don't actually show the poor dead mouse body? how discreet and pc of them!

 

[anxi80]

i got that exact model for a mouse problem i had a few months ago. it sat there for a week and didnt catch a single mouse. i went traditonal and got the snap traps, and within a week i had the whole family looking like backward-pez dispensers.

 

[kranky]

Try the Polytron. It may take 30 seconds, but you do get a soup-like homogenate!

 

[Steve]

Silly mouse. Trix is for kids.

 

[Minerva]

Originally posted by: kranky
Try the Polytron. It may take 30 seconds, but you do get a soup-like homogenate!

We'd have to catch it first.

Hot dog was unsuccesful. The maze is blocking the way to the plates. He is rigging the safety switch on the door. Sheesh we're never going to get a mouse if he keeps playing with the damn thing. :|

I hope it shocks him good. He'll probably scream like a little girl.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: D1gger
We had a mouse problem a few years ago, and we tried all kinds of different traps (I didn't see those electric traps or I would have tried them), it turns out the most effective traps were the original M150 Snap Traps.

Those things, plus dried cherries = great mouse killer. Bend up the trigger, put the cherry in underneath the toothed end, and bend it down to grip the cherry tightly. It seems that the mice try to tug at the tough skin to extract the sweet thing, which then snaps right down on their heads. Most of them die with their teeth still in the cherry, but all get the trap right on the base of their skulls.

Still, I always tie the traps down to something secure, just in case a mouse gets a leg caught. That way it can't wander off to die inside a wall somewhere with the trap still stuck to it.

Originally posted by: kranky
Try the Polytron. It may take 30 seconds, but you do get a soup-like homogenate!

Wouldn't it be easier to just have some kind of trapdoor to tip the mouse into a blender?
Mouse wanders in, weight triggers a trap door which also sets off a reed switch. Blender switches on, and in much less than 30 seconds, you have freshly homogenized mouse slurry.

 

[Minerva]

Speaking of bait, he got this stuff in a bottle that's green and smells like dog food. :disgust:. They claim mice like it better than peanut butter.

Wholy hell look at the rat killer on that page! It looks like a small lunchbox. 4 C cells. :shocked:

 

[Rubycon]

Doesn't that sound kind of mean? I don't want to deal with mice and certainly NOT rats but there's no way that can kill them that fast. Unless it has a hell of a capacitor and dumps it like a flashgun. Traps usually kill instantly when the bar slams on the neck.

 

[Hyperlite]

$10 says Minerva's next post comes from her brother's hospital bed-side!

 

[KK]

I bought one of those electronic mouse zappers for a little mouse that was terrorizing us. I set it up on the counter top one night, the next morning the light was blinking or doing something to indicate it went off. I was excited, opened it up and there was no mouse. But it must have zapped him as he pissed inside the trap. got him couple nights later in a conventional mouse trap. those sticky thing didn't seem to hold him either, we found those on the floor after he knocked them off the counter.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: KK
I bought one of those electronic mouse zappers for a little mouse that was terrorizing us. I set it up on the counter top one night, the next morning the light was blinking or doing something to indicate it went off. I was excited, opened it up and there was no mouse. But it must have zapped him as he pissed inside the trap. got him couple nights later in a conventional mouse trap. those sticky thing didn't seem to hold him either, we found those on the floor after he knocked them off the counter.

Good lord sounds like you have a mouse like these guys. :laugh:

 

[ForumMaster]

we had a mouse once, we just used a stick trap and then we flung the mouse outside. killing it served no purpose.

 

[Rubycon]

In Nassau they don't trap rats the crazy dockworkers run over them.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
In Nassau they don't trap rats the crazy dockworkers run over them.

"Ya! Und zen ve step on it und sqvuish it!"