Optical Rat Trap Trigger

Optical Rat Trap Trigger

تعداد صفحه : 6Optical Rat Trap Trigger A simple circuit to make a better rat trap
This circuit can be used to trigger a trap when a rat or other animal interrupts a beam of infrared light. You can use this to build your own trap, or to modify an existing one. I used it to modify a wire cage type of live rat trap. The advantages over a simple mechanical trigger are: much less prone to false triggering from vibration or from animals climbing on the outside of the trap less prone to non-triggering because the animal doesnt have to press or move anything live traps are less likely to injure the animal because it is less likely to false trigger when the animal is not all the way inside provides an audible indication when the trap has been sprung The disadvantages are: requires...