Re: [TCML] Electric Fence, NST's, and squirrels

[johnbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx]

My Office and my Wifes office combined is large enough for a 4 x 6 foot
window looking
into back yard.We feed and watch winter birds,,so I built a shelf
outside with bird seed
on it.Birds loved it.Raccoons also,,,but they only came at night.A 12k
nst solved the coon problem,A 4 inch x 6 inch wire mesh wired in series
to ,,whatever closes the circuit.
No more coons,,,I suppose it would work on squirrel,,,a self levitating
squirrel..LOL
Joe Smith

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:31 +0000, "dave pierson" <dave_p@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> ----- "Gary Lau" <glau1024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > If I may test the boundaries of being on-topic (this does pertain to
> > NST's)...
> > 
> > I have squirrel problems.  Normally they're just cute lawn-rats,
> > attracted to the abundant supply of acorns raining down from
> > our oak trees.  But with autumn here, I cannot put a pumpkin on
> > our porch, uncarved, without the varmints chewing through it
> > and spilling its guts all over the porch, in search of seeds.
> >  How do they know...?
>     Food is food.  8)>> Squirrels have been eating wild
>     pumpkins, etc for 'a long time'.
>  
> > Zapping the critters to teach 'em a lesson comes to mind, having
> > so many NST's kicking about.  But I clearly don't want to set up
> > anything lethal or dangerous to humans on my porch.  I know that
> > electric fences for animal control use brief pulsing so as to not
> > be lethal.  Voltage/current unknown.
>    When much younger, had brief, not exhaustive experience.
>    Mech 'points/coil' very analagous to classic auto ignition,
>    but lower power.  few hundred volts i'd guess.  Modern
>    presumably 'solid state', equivalent.  I'd dial down an
>    NST with a variac.  That Said, i'm guessing squirrels are
>    small enuf and nimble enuf and smart enuf to evade anything
>    simple/practical:  They play on power poles.  (Yeah: they
>    can/do misjudge and flee, flaming, thru substations, taking
>    down power.  Sometimes.
> 
>    I'd think Tesla Coils, per se, too likely to corona away
>    any useful effect.   Hmmmmmmmm.  Float the pumpkin,
>    electrically on an NST or Tesla Coil?
> 
>    best
>     dwp
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