Thursday, February 7, 2019: Deicer Thermocube and Squirrel Chronicles Continued

Last week, I decided to buy and install a Thermocube. This is a thermostatically enabled electrical receptacle. Power to the deicer will not happen unless the ambient temperature has dropped to 35F and it will shut off power when the ambient temperature rises to 45F. This will save energy. The cube is a dual outlet so I put a child guard in the open port. The Thermocube is not weather proof so I also purchased and installed a silicon "rain block" at each exposed plug in point. Since the deicer is plugged into the same GFCI as the pond circulation pump, as long as the waterfall is falling, the silicon seals are working.

While down in the sunroom this morning, around 8:00 am, I got the first motion notification in the third floor eave in the past week. There were actually four back-to-back videos caught. The one below shows the squirrel attempting to get to the bait, moving the cage around. It did not knock the ultrasonic boom box off the top of the trap, as was done once before.

While the boom box obviously did not deter the creature from entering the eave, the creature did not stay very long. Maybe it is working. Another question is whether this was a new animal or was it the one I transplanted over to the Tower Grove Park who has come back?