Has anyone any experience of using a product called Plug-in Pest-Free? It's
a small box that plugs into a 13-amp socket and is claimed to drive away
rodents. To quote from http://www.pestfree-products.co.uk/ :

"The PestFree Plug is built around a computer chip which is ... programmed
to alter the electromagnetic field, which is produced by the mains
electricity as it flows around your wiring. This is normally 50Hz which is
perfectly acceptable to Rats, Mice etc. and Housebound insects such as
cockroaches. The change which Pest Free Plug produces in the electromagnetic
frequency disturbs the equilibrium of all household pests to such an extent
that they no longer EAT or BREED and, most importantly, try to get away from
this disturbance as quickly as possible."

It is claimed to have no effect on other electrical equipment.

The implication of the sentence which mentions 50Hz is that it alters the
mains frequency!

Is this (a) possible, and (b) safe for other equipment? And (c) does it
work?
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Richard J. wrote:
Has anyone any experience of using a product called Plug-in Pest-Free? It's
a small box that plugs into a 13-amp socket and is claimed to drive away
rodents. To quote from http://www.pestfree-products.co.uk/ :

Hehe...that's really funny...

If the unit did emit EM fields strong enough to have any impact
on any living creature, it would need NRPB approval. If that
were the case, it would pose a measurable threat to human health.

Since it doesn't emit EM at those levels, it's extremely
unlikely your rodents would notice.

Might very well descale your water though.

--
Grunff

In article ,
Richard J. wrote:
Has anyone any experience of using a product called Plug-in Pest-Free?
It's a small box that plugs into a 13-amp socket and is claimed to drive
away rodents. To quote from http://www.pestfree-products.co.uk/ :

"The PestFree Plug is built around a computer chip which is ...
programmed to alter the electromagnetic field, which is produced by the
mains electricity as it flows around your wiring.

Don't need to read any further - it's snake oil. But IMM will be along in
a minute to say his one works.

--
*If you ate pasta and anti-pasta, would you still be hungry?

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

Grunff wrote in
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Might very well descale your water though.

Me water's fine - it's me pipes, doc

mike r

In article ,
"Richard J." writes:
Has anyone any experience of using a product called Plug-in Pest-Free? It's
a small box that plugs into a 13-amp socket and is claimed to drive away
rodents. To quote from http://www.pestfree-products.co.uk/ :

"The PestFree Plug is built around a computer chip which is ... programmed
to alter the electromagnetic field, which is produced by the mains
electricity as it flows around your wiring. This is normally 50Hz which is
perfectly acceptable to Rats, Mice etc. and Housebound insects such as
cockroaches. The change which Pest Free Plug produces in the electromagnetic
frequency disturbs the equilibrium of all household pests to such an extent
that they no longer EAT or BREED and, most importantly, try to get away from
this disturbance as quickly as possible."

A load of ********, but I bet it makes a brilliant water softener ;-)

--
Andrew Gabriel

"Richard J." wrote in message
...
Has anyone any experience of using a product called Plug-in Pest-Free?
It's
a small box that plugs into a 13-amp socket and is claimed to drive away
rodents. To quote from http://www.pestfree-products.co.uk/ :

"The PestFree Plug is built around a computer chip which is ... programmed
to alter the electromagnetic field, which is produced by the mains
electricity as it flows around your wiring. This is normally 50Hz which is
perfectly acceptable to Rats, Mice etc. and Housebound insects such as
cockroaches. The change which Pest Free Plug produces in the
electromagnetic
frequency disturbs the equilibrium of all household pests to such an
extent
that they no longer EAT or BREED and, most importantly, try to get away
from
this disturbance as quickly as possible."

It is claimed to have no effect on other electrical equipment.

The implication of the sentence which mentions 50Hz is that it alters the
mains frequency!

Is this (a) possible, and (b) safe for other equipment? And (c) does it
work?
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)


To be honest and blunt. They're garbage. My sister bought one from a
salesman who told her all the gumpf you've read about. Now my sister lives
in a country cottage and it gets quite crowded there with all the little
things that run around.

Well she plugged this thing in and set it to work and I'm buggered if the
mice still didn't eat everything in sight and bred like rabbits all through
the winter.

So I'll repeat. They're garbage.


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