Smart-Kill Electronic Rat Trap

Got it set up just fine. Kept an eye on it on my app and, yep, there she is. Just waiting for that rat to come along.... All of a sudden I get a notification saying that the trap had been offline for 24 hrs (hadn't even had it for 24hrs) and it simply wouldn't reconnect by itself. So I went through the whole process again - noting that the battery level had plummeted to 48% by then. Low and behold, less than 24hrs later it disconnected again. I left it for a couple of days, hoping it might reconnect but nope. I went to do it manually again but I was getting a red light instead of green. The battery was too flat. Did some poking around on the internet... my experience is in no way an isolated occurrence. Victor have some real quality control issues going on. I've now initiated a return and will get a rival brand's product (albiet, without wi-fi). Thanks for nothing, Victor.

I absolutely am impressed by this trap! I have used many styles with mixed success. Sticky traps didn't work well as vermin would get away, leaving just hair stuck to the trap as evidence they were there. Snap traps wouldn't always catch them either, as they would sneak away with the bait or trip the trap but not be in it. Spin traps worked great, but they are a one time use and toss in the trash deal...gets expensive. I don't care for poison blocks, as having a critter die and not be able to find it's body, only to have it stink up the place as it rots...yeah, not fun. Enter the Electric trap...This digital WiFi unit is a real killer! It has killed mice and squirrels that have invaded my living space. Very easy to link up to network, easy to use phone App, simple to bait and set trap. Alerts me immediately of kill. Easy to dispose of vermin and clean/reset trap. I highly recommend :)

I was able to add the trap to my wireless flawlessly and it reports into both the android and iphone apps with no problems. However, once the trap goes off, I expect to see a "Kill, empty trap" reported in those apps. I have set off the trap several times manually using steel wool and solder braid and have seen zero kills out of ten shock-cycles spaced across a 24 hour period. What's the point in having a wifi trap if I can't get notifications ? I can still see the battery percentage remaining so that is something, but the best feature of this trap isn't working. Product review + mod) The Victor M2 Wifi Rat Trap, or How NOT to build a better mouse trap Posted on November 15, 2018 by lastheorem 1/5 stars. Avoid. Doesn’t alert on kill events. Eats C batteries. Instead buy the Victor Rat sized Snap traps in a pack. If you have this trap and want to know how to save on batteries, then scroll to the end. I love my IOT devices. Having a company develop, support and run all the back-end services. When I found out there was a mouse/rat trap that I could put in my attic that would alert me when it got one, and then was easy to simply dump out the same day, I was all over it. Enter the Victor M2 electrified Wifi rat trap. I bought it for $70 on amazon here. The trap requires an app for iPhone or Android (I have both). Once I had the app, I was able to turn on the trap after adding four C cell batteries (which can be a bit hard to find and expensive now that everyone isn’t rocking bedroom boom-boxes and incandescent flashlights since the mid-90s). The way the trap works is, the battery charges a capacitor bank. There are two metal plates inside the trap housing. When something like a rat or mouse makes a circuit between the two plates, the trap discharges the capacitor at high frequency (sounds something like 10 kilohertz) through the body of the rodent, killing it. Then, the trap alerts the server that there has been a kill, and you get a notification via the app. That’s the theory. I tried setting the trap off manually several times using a piece of solder braid, and even got shocked by it once. It seems to run for about 20 seconds after initially set off, which is probably meant to improve the likelihood of a kill instead of a stun. I got no notification on my Victor App. Over time I also noticed that the Victor trap was status: Connected to wifi but would only check in approximately 24 hours. I tried doing 10 manual shock/kill cycles but I have yet to receive a single notification. I contacted Victor customer support and had the following exchange with them, where they never offered to replace it or refund it. I put it in the attic hoping to at least kill some rats, but no luck over two months when baited with peanut butter. Placing twelve snap traps after that, I caught five rats. Upon inspection the peanut butter has been chewed, so the rats either were not detected or were stunned.

Drained battery in 3 days Disconnects from internet everyday when it had power

While I haven't caught a rodent in this trap yet, I wanted to write an early review to clarify some things now. First, I had absolutely no issues connecting the trap to my wifi. I'm using a mesh network of two Nest Routers, which are set to cover both 2.4GHz and 5GHz on the same SSID (wifi name), so if this was ever a problem, it is no longer an issue. Second, I have had zero problems with the mobile app. It ran me through the setup process, and has shown me updates on the trap without fail. I noticed that the trap gives an "I'm alive" update every 24 hours, which includes the latest battery measurement. If you see the battery percentage drop suddenly from 100% - don't worry. It means your batteries were never truly 100% and the trap needed a day or two to calibrate to the real percentage (most likely caused by idle drainage during storage). I intend to update this review once the trap has a run-in with a mouse. Update: I've had this trap for about two weeks now. We got our first catch about a week ago - a small house mouse. The alert went to my phone without issue, and to clean the trap I: turned it off, dumped the mouse into our tree line, and turned it back on (the mouse wasn't able to eat the bait). The next day I got an alert that the trap hadn't responded in the last 24 hours - strange because according to the last update time, it indeed had responded just fine. Sure enough, it didn't give me that alert again after that, so it was likely just a fluke. Overall, the trap has worked excellently.