How to make an electric trap for mice and rats

How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

Mice and rats accompany humans everywhere. They destroy food and crops in dachas and fields, carry viruses of severe infections and even gnaw signal wires in devices. Cats and traps cannot cope with the invasion of rodents, and the use of poisons can poison our pets: dogs, cats. In addition, after poisoning, rodents go out into the streets and become easy prey for birds of prey, which die from rat poison.
The most advanced method of exterminating harmful animals is an electric trap.

Materials and tools


Materials:
  • Chinese racket for fighting mosquitoes and flies (powerful 12 V model TBD G8 was used);
  • 4 metal plates from tin cans (beer cans can be used);
  • stranded copper wire in insulation (diameter 2 mm, length up to 1 meter);
  • a piece of plywood or durable cardboard measuring 20x40 cm;
  • empty clean pet jar or 2.5 liter bottle.

Tools:
  • hot-melt gun with adhesive stick;
  • scissors;
  • electric drill.

Manufacturing process


First of all, let's prepare the base for our trap.On a rectangular plywood plate, we will drill 4 holes for the wires, which will be connected to the conductive electrode plates.
Let's cut out small rectangular plates measuring 4x10 cm from beer cans. Let's place them on our base. The distance between the plates should be 2 cm. We pierce a hole not far from the bottom edge of each plate.
We stretch the wires from below under the base and thread their ends into the holes in the board and electrode plate.
How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

We connect the wire and the plate by twisting. We connect the wiring from the plates so that adjacent electrodes have different polarities.
How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats
We make a common output of the negative and positive wires to the surface of the base (through a drilled hole).
We glue the electrode plates to the base with hot glue.
How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

We take the TBD G8 insect repellent racket and take out the entire electronic unit, but before that we short-circuit the electrodes to remove the existing charge.
How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

Its dimensions are only 4x10 cm. The block consists of several parts. A step-up transformer increases the voltage hundreds of times. It increases even more in the doubler and goes to the capacitor. We connect our 2 wires from the plates with twists to the two wires of the block that went to the racket nets. The block can be glued to the base.
How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

You can also add a powerful capacitor of a couple of tens of thousands of microfarads. It is connected in parallel. We turn on the unit and check the adjacent plates for short circuits. There are sparks, everything works.
How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

Take a plastic jar or an empty 2.5 liter plastic bottle. Along the generatrix of the bottle cylinder, we cut out a plate slightly wider than the length of our electrodes.
How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

With the resulting window we close the electrode field from above.In the middle of the bottle, about 3 cm from the cut edge, we cut a round hole with a diameter of 3 cm; it serves for visiting the trap by future victims. The cap of the bottle or jar must be closed.
We pour a handful of any grain or cereal inside the bottle, turn on the device and begin hunting for mice and rats. The installation is self-contained and can be placed in garages, sheds and other utility rooms.
How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

What's good about the bottle? It can be immediately dismantled and thrown into the trash along with the killed mice. A new bottle is installed in a minute.
How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

How to make a 12 volt electric trap for mice and rats

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Comments (11)
  1. Nick
    #1 Nick Guests 5 March 2019 20:43
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    A bit harsh... The same thing, but pour glue into a jar...
  2. Guest Sergey
    #2 Guest Sergey Guests March 6, 2019 08:58
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    Cool idea!
  3. Tanya
    #3 Tanya Guests March 6, 2019 21:03
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    The Chinese also sew fur coats from cats and eat a lot of indecent things, friends, so don’t be like the wretched. Mice are terribly annoying and difficult to fight, but not with the same methods, Buddhism is in your liver.
  4. Guest Yuri
    #4 Guest Yuri Guests 7 March 2019 18:58
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    Greenpeace hasn’t seen this yet. Author, run, you’ll make it to the Canadian border!
  5. Vic
    #5 Vic Guests 12 March 2019 23:05
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    Hard. But other types of killing, such as poison and glue, are much harsher. There they suffer for hours, but here a couple of seconds and that’s it. There are, of course, aesthetes who are caught alive and released...
  6. BENDER39
    #6 BENDER39 Guests June 2, 2019 09:27
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    So where is the video, I want to see how it happens with my own eyes
  7. DooM
    #7 DooM Guests 21 September 2019 12:35
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    What prevents you from setting up a live trap and then releasing it away from your home? But such devices should only be used on people.
  8. Guest Victor
    #8 Guest Victor Guests 10 October 2019 08:34
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    Everything can be simpler! I had a rat chewing a hole under my floor, there was a socket on the wall next to me, I lowered the wire from the phase into the hole and that was it that same evening, then I found a dead one in the underground nearby, I don’t even need any bait
  9. Max
    #9 Max Guests 19 February 2020 15:54
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    how does it work
  10. Guest Vitaly
    #10 Guest Vitaly Guests 13 May 2020 16:48
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    Urban rats have a habitat area of ​​about a kilometer. That is, Buddhists who release mice into the wild must understand that they should be released 3 kilometers from the house if you do not want the mouse to return. Well, it’s also worth remembering that when you release a caught mouse into freedom in the vicinity of human habitation, you are doing "present"to the people living there.

    A female rat has 2 states - she is either nursing her offspring or pregnant. This is why rats reproduce so quickly and steadily.

    As they say, draw your own conclusions.