Andy1845c
Active Member
I searched and search, never found a homemade electric rat trap, other than wiring them up to the mains.
I remember seeing somthing simalar to your bucket trap in a farming magazine years ago. I don't remember the specifics, but it used an electric fence charger to cause the rat or mouse to fall off a narrow, baited bridge over the water. I suppose you could attatch the ground side of the charger to the bridge and the wire side to a copper washer or somthing with bait on it. I never built it, but thought about it. I hate mice and rats!
If you built somthing with mains or a microwave transformer, I would put it inside a length of PVC pipe or somthing to lessen the chance a child or pet would get hurt.
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