Electric Power in the Attic

Last Friday I was able to install the new double power outlet in the verandah and started getting power to the double outlet that I had installed in the attic a week earlier.  Then I spent the rest of the day exploiting the power outlets in the attic.

I have set up two surge protected power boards in the attic, yielding me 8 potential electrical connections. I am using 6 of those 8 outlets as follows:

- One to supply power to the kitchen TV via a cord running down the chimney
- One to supply power to the TV cable splitter, which will amplify the signal being received
- Four for "Sonic Pest Repellers". 

I decided to activate the splitter because on the very day that I was about to do the attic work I noticed that channel 7 was breaking up, so purchasing the powered splitter was not a waste of money after all.

Testing New GPO in Verandah

Repellers and Power Boards Ready for Attic

The pest repellers all sweep through ultrasound frequencies 30-60 kHz, well above the hearing range of humans.  Cats and dogs can hear up to 27 kHz so they should be OK too.  But rats and mice can hear then and it annoys them enough to make them move on within 28 days. 

Three of the repellers are the deluxe version that also produce an electromagnetic pulse that allegedly passes along the house wiring and protects cavities where the rodents may want to set up camp.

I've received one reliable first hand report that the system works, where just one repeller working from inside the bedroom through the ceiling cleared out the nest in the attic in a few days.

Anyway, I figure that it's worth a shot, and typical me, I went in heavy, with 4 repellers covering the entire attic.