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

[chambersc]

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

That's hilarious!

 

[RossMAN]

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.

When we had a mouse problem (around 14 mice) the most effective traps were the lowest tech.

Those Victor spring loaded traps and some sticky glue traps. The spring ones suck when it goes snap and there's a little blood splatter on the carpet and wall. So then we started putting the traps on paper plates which helped a little.

 

[Minerva]

Originally posted by: Hyperlite
$10 says Minerva's next post comes from her brother's hospital bed-side!

Nothing that dramatic. If anything he'd end up there from me pushing him down the stairs. :Q I kid, I kid.

He did test it. Here is his message to me verbatim:

Sis, here's a description of my findings on the Victor Electronic Mouse Trap. Feel free to paste it over at Anand's.

Output plates measure 3.8-4 kV, capacitor pulse discharge. Frequency is roughly tuned to cause muscular spasms in target animal. Target animal will likely lose bladder and bowel control upon onsite of death. There is a timer circuit that stops voltage after approximately 30 seconds. If no movement is detected via varying resistance change on output side, the circuit will disengage and flash the green light to notify the trapkeeper of a successful catch/kill.

Overall the design looks to be clean and effective. The pcb and components are about twice the size they could be but minaturization costs money and to keep this one under $20 they have done a good job.

How does it feel? I shocked myself with it and honestly was rather disappointed. The waveform looked like it would have much more bite but then again I've been hit with a lot worse like that 3000 W Trace inverter with a floating rail on Mr. Fry's sailboat. It's uncomfortable and probably strong enough for a toilet seat prank especially if there's a scrotum wire involved.

 

[Mrfrog840]

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

i watched the whole thing hoping they would show a mouse going in!

 

[William Buggy]

How much electrical power does it take to kill a mouse "in seconds"?
Well how much current does it take to kill a standard mouse. Anyone care to answer the question?

 

[zinfamous]

I have to agree with the spammer: AT pretty much ignored the plot of the thread, and it's been 10 years already.

 

[jhansman]

We use the Mouse Zapper (cousin to the Rat Zapper) to electrocute the little bastards. After my wife found mouse turds and piss all over the inside of her new car, it was wholesale warfare on them. BTW, we tried peppermint oil-doused cotton swabs in the cars, and that seems to keep them away. Dunno if there's any science behind that, but I've zapped a dozen or so thus far, and the cars are staying clean and mouse free. Oh, and peanut butter is irresistible to them; best bait going, with Cliff bars running a close second.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's all about the current, or more specifically wattage. You need a high enough voltage that will allow enough current to flow through the mouse to kill it. So it's a question of if a couple AA's can actually supply that. You can slowly charge a capacitor as well, as the battery may be able to supply enough power, just not all at once, so a high voltage capacitor will solve that.

 

[JEDI]

Feb 21, 2007
Holy Necro thread!

at first I thought Minerva was back.
sigh