Raticator Remote Rodent Indicator

There are places where the red-eyed mouse is really useful -- but I don't like to leave the Raticators set ("on") for a long time and try not to put a Raticator in a really inaccessible place, like the attic which requires a mountaineer to get to. For one thing, enough dust can drift into a trap to make it think a rat has bridged the plates, and after a few false alarms I tend to forget I have a Raticator set and believe me, you don't want to have to try to revive a Raticator that has a long-dead half-liquified rat in it! The four instead of five stars are only because I haven't had this remote flasher for long (the former one lasted a long time but got lost somehow) and beause I think the hype for it is a bit overenthusiastic and you might not think the process (get ladder, climb ladder, crawl over annex roof to attic window...) through enough and expect too much.But if you have a place that you suspect is a good place for a rat to want to visit, and it's hard to see but not a terrific pain to reach, the red-eyed helper is great. So far it's always worked as it's supposed to -- blinks brightly when the trap is sprung. I use it on the Raticator in my greenhouse, putting it where I can see the lights flash from the window so I don't have to go out in the dark and the rain to see if I've caught a rat. There are places in my kitchen where it would be a good idea to get the flashing lights out of a dark corner and right in my face too. Well worth it if you have such a situation.

This is nice for a Raticator in an attic or other inaccessible place, and works as advertised, up to a point. The little eyes start blinking when you have a kill, IF you have plugged it in properly. There seems be an undocumented sequence of steps required to plug it in. Fair warning. Another problem is that instead of drawing the minuscule power it needs to light two tiny LEDs from the Raticator, it's powered by two lithium batteries, good for a year or so. This wouldn't be serious if it could be readily opened so the batteries could be replaced, but it's not designed to be opened or put back together. I worked around this by prying it apart with a screwdriver and pocket knife, and putting it back together with a rubber band.EDIT: the best way to make sure it's plugged in properly is to set the trap, THEN plug it in, noting that the eyes blink momentarily as you are plugging it in.

We bought a couple of the Raticator Max Rodent Traps in an effort to get rid of the rodent population in a shallow crawlspace between two floors of our house. Because the traps are not only out of sight, but in difficult locations to check it's a great help to NOT need to move ceiling tiles to get to the traps to see if something's in the trap-- now we just look for the blinking red eyes!It's a small lightweight device (about half the size of a computer mouse) on a long cord (about 10 feet) that plugs into a jack on top of the Raticator trap. If the trap has been triggered, the "mouse's" eyes start blinking red. It's simple, it works, and is ESSENTIAL (or certainly very convenient) if you're going to use these traps in hard-to-see locations.

To be fair, yes the eyes on the indicator flash when a rodent is in the trap, but sadly this only happened one time. The Raticator for me was more like a rat feeder. Put dry cat food in one day and it disappears the next, no dead rat. I went back to using poison bait

I bought this to use with the Infared Raticator Max I got at the same time. It works very well. I set the baited Raticator way under something and have the remote mouse where I can see it. Its eyes alternate blinking, left right, when a rat has been zapped.

Works, Nothing fancy.. Love the blinking eyes when you end up with a catch... Though they could out some LEDs on the side of teh trap then this would not be needed.

Doesn't work; has never worked- plugged it into the raticator and it didn't work. I am pissed off. Do not buy this item.

For some reason I thought the indicator would be wireless and keep the remote indicator downstairs. I missed the 12 foot cord reference entirely, however the indicator works exactly as advertised when there is a rat in the trap.