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Electrified Birdfeeder?
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| could someone tell me how i could rig up some electricity to my bird feeder,
so when a squirrel gets on it i can flip a switch and blast him?
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| In article <g4UMh.507$ow3.111@newsfe12.lga>, "AC" <Jrtpower@gmail.com>
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> could someone tell me how i could rig up some electricity to my bird feeder,
> so when a squirrel gets on it i can flip a switch and blast him?
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A squirrel weighs much more than a bird. When you get your zapper going,
set it off by having a microswitch turn on when the squirrel jumps on
the bird feeder; that will turn it on and zap the squirrel. No need to
play sentry.
How to do it? The bird feed could be attached to a spring that it hangs
from. When it stretches due to the squirrel weight, the micro closes.
The details are up to you.
Unless, of course, you're using your bird feeder to feed vultures ;-)
Al
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| Tom Horne, Electrician 2007-03-23, 5:25 pm |
| AC wrote:
> could someone tell me how i could rig up some electricity to my bird feeder,
> so when a squirrel gets on it i can flip a switch and blast him?
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I'd need to know how your bird feeder is supported and how the squirrels
are getting onto it.
--
Tom Horne
"This alternating current stuff is just a fad. It is much too dangerous
for general use." Thomas Alva Edison
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| Long Ranger 2007-03-23, 5:25 pm |
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"AC" <Jrtpower@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:g4UMh.507$ow3.111@newsfe12.lga...
> could someone tell me how i could rig up some electricity to my bird
> feeder, so when a squirrel gets on it i can flip a switch and blast him?
>I like your thinking. Post a photo somewhere so we can all join in and
>engineer a squirrel roasting device.
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| Paul Hovnanian P.E. 2007-03-24, 9:25 pm |
| AC wrote:
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> could someone tell me how i could rig up some electricity to my bird feeder,
> so when a squirrel gets on it i can flip a switch and blast him?
There's an outfit that makes a 'squirrel centrifuge'. A bird feeder with
a weight sensitive switch, motor and battery that spins and throws
squirrels off when they climb on it.
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Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com
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"Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes."
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| AC wrote:
>could someone tell me how i could rig up some electricity to my bird feeder,
>so when a squirrel gets on it i can flip a switch and blast him?
This is a question that is asked all the time.
Birders have known the solution
since long before anybody knew anything about electricty.
Make what you offer the birds unappealing to mammals.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec....h+Pepper-plants
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