[Elecraft] RE: [OT] Burglar alarm/latching relays

[Kevin Rock]

A friend of mine had problems with opossums killing an eating her 
chickens.  At first she used the 12 guage pump but that got to be time 
consuming.  So, being the daughter of an electrician, she rigged a wire 
around the chicken coop.  Once the chickens were safely inside she threw 
the switch.  Later that evening she would clear the bodies after she heard 
the breaker snap in the house and reset it.  220 VAC does wonders to 
chicken killing 'possums :)  She was happy and her chickens were safe.  I 
do not recommend this for the problem in Baltimore but rather for the koi 
eating raccoon in S. Oregon.  Coon do taste pretty good by the way :)
    Kevin.  From the wilds of Buxton, Oregon   KD5ONS


On Wed, 26 May 2004 17:27:24 -0700, DAVE HEALY <barbados at internetcds.com> 
wrote:

> Thom, we don't have too many human break-ins here in S. Oregon, but 
> plenty of animal assaults.
>
> They assault my Koi ponds (The Raccoons).
>
> I've found that a simple IR motion detector hooked to a home-brew 
> 400-watt ultrasonic amp with Motorola transducers sweeping from 4K-26K 
> really does the trick on those bandits. I haven't figured out how to 
> stop the deaf ones, however.
> -dave- N7DKK Medford, Oregon