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My rabbit is trying to kill the internet

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birhtnoth83

Junior Member
Hi all,

This is a random question, and quite possibly in the wrong forum, but here goes anyway. My girlfriend's house-roaming rabbit has declared war on the internet. He has chewed through CAT5 twice, and now he just chewed through the 7.5 V adapter on the wireless router. I replaced it with a 12 V adapter I had lying around. The router seems to work, but I'm just wondering how safe it is, if it represents a fire hazard, etc.

Thanks!

First to answer gets to try some rabbit stew tonight.
 
Haha, yeah. I've covered all the wires I can find with split loom. But I'm just concerned about the safety aspects of replacing a 7.5 volt AC adapter with a 12 volt AC adapter.
 
The safety will depend on the ciruitry in the router. I had a client who'd hooked up the wrong power supply (voltage too high) to a Cisco modem. I plugged it in and watched it get hot and smoke start to pour out. Obviously, that was a bit too much voltage.
 
birhtnoth83 said:
Haha, yeah. I've covered all the wires I can find with split loom. But I'm just concerned about the safety aspects of replacing a 7.5 volt AC adapter with a 12 volt AC adapter.
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i can't imagine that's a good idea.

why not just solder together the wire for the 7.5v one?
 
Rig up a spare PSU to run (paperclip crossing a green and black wire). Plenty of chewable cables for the rabbit, and once it hits one of the 12VDC wires.... goodbye fluffy
 
Get a cage or have rabbit stew. Put all cables in metal conduit - or maybe the rabbit will luck out and chew into Biostud's live A/C cord. 🙂
 
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Rabbits can chew through about anything, just like squirrels. Physical access is the key. Since those options seem to be limited, wireless or raise the cable run. A metal conduit will slow it down and it will find something easier to chew on.
 
Either get a cage as suggested or if rabbit is big enough, rabbit stew.

http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/18731/hasenpfeffer-(german-rabbit-stew).html

Ingredients:
4 lb Rabbit
1 1/2 c Dry red wine
3/4 c Cider vinegar
2 ts Salt; optional
1/2 ts Freshly ground black pepper
1 Bay leaf
1/2 c Onions; chopped
1 tb Mixed pickling spice
1/2 c Flour
4 tb Butter
1 c Onions; thinly sliced
2 tb Sugar
1/2 c Sour cream

Directions:

Cut rabbit in serving-sized pieces. Wash, scrape, and soak in salted cold water for 1 hour. Drain and dry.
In a glass or pottery bowl mix together the wine, vinegar, salt, pepper, bay leaf, chopped onions, and pickling spice. Add the rabbit and let marinate in the refirgerator for 3 days. Turn the pieces occasinally. Drain the rabbit; strain and reserve the marinade. Dry the rabbit with paper towels and roll in flour.

Melt butter in a Dutch oven or deep heavy skillet; brown the rabbit and sliced onions in it. Pour off fat and add sugar and 1-1/2 cups marinade. Cover and cook over low heat 1-1/2 hours or until rabbit is tender. Turn the pieces occasionally and add more marinade if needed. Taste for seasoning. Mix the sour cream into the gravy just before serving.
 
those are some delicious sounding recipes for rabbit stew... mmm, mmm.

As for the actual question asked, using a 12V instead of a 7.5v adapter is very likely to destroy your router. Even though it works now, its not good for it in the long term.
Look on ebay for a cheap replacement plug.

As for fire hazard.. not sure, I think its highly unlike at that low voltage AND amperage...
 
This thread has been going a day and I am sorely disappointed.

Where is the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch? 🙂
 
It's really hard to say if a 12V adapter in a 7.5V router is a problem. Engineers tend to build in margin into their designs. If it seems to be working fine, then it probably is. There could be long term reliability issue - MOSFets in the design tend to have problems with higher than normal voltages over the long term (time dependent dielectric breakdown, if you want to google it) and it might have a higher probability of overheating. If it's working, you are probably ok though.
 
^^^ Yeah, I agree.
Generally, if it's working, it's working (when it comes to modems).
I wouldn't try this with something like an external hard drive though (I would know, I've burnt one out doing this).
 
What if this rabbit gets absorbed into the internet in a Tron like fashion, and subsequently eats the internet's central control program? We'd be f**ked, people.

We're through the looking glass here...
 
check the amp output as well

Motivational&
 
taltamir said:
awww! I know I was of the "cook it" camp before, but after looking at that picture I don't have the heart to anymore. I want to hug it and love it take it home and call it George.
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Pair it with a female bunny and name it Georgia. With in a year you will have 80 George Jr.'s and baby Georgia's. J/K
 
I had pet rabbits once... a hawk caught sight of them... it circled out house for three days... during which time the terrified rabbits dug an "escape" from their 10x10 foot pen... they dug a very deep and long tunnel to get out... once they were out it caught them and ate them. stupid rabbits, it could not get to them in their pens where they were safe... sigh.
 
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