Red Squirrel
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I finally got around to pulling wire for my mouse trap monitoring project. I've been checking it manually with the ohm meter for now.
Cable comes in from the server rack DIN terminal block, through the floor, up this conduit and to a terminal block. Yeah I know, that's an out of spec bend, but it really wont matter for basic low voltage non-data electrical.
Will have a cord going up to the attic with a RJ45 end so I can easily disconnect the trap array to bring it down for emptying. The trap array will consist of 6 traps in groups of 2. Undecided yet if I want to do series or parallel. In series I'll know right away if I caught a mouse while in parallel it could take a few mice before one set triggers.
The mouse trap array, I will be adding 4 more traps and a rj45 jack.
The idea behind this is so I don't have to keep going up in the attic and getting myself full of blown insulation just to check the traps. I'll only have to go up there to empty them. I'll also be able to put everything else back in that closet once things slow down.
I caught like 5 already so far. I really need to figure out how they're getting in the house.
Cable comes in from the server rack DIN terminal block, through the floor, up this conduit and to a terminal block. Yeah I know, that's an out of spec bend, but it really wont matter for basic low voltage non-data electrical.
Will have a cord going up to the attic with a RJ45 end so I can easily disconnect the trap array to bring it down for emptying. The trap array will consist of 6 traps in groups of 2. Undecided yet if I want to do series or parallel. In series I'll know right away if I caught a mouse while in parallel it could take a few mice before one set triggers.
The mouse trap array, I will be adding 4 more traps and a rj45 jack.
The idea behind this is so I don't have to keep going up in the attic and getting myself full of blown insulation just to check the traps. I'll only have to go up there to empty them. I'll also be able to put everything else back in that closet once things slow down.
I caught like 5 already so far. I really need to figure out how they're getting in the house.