1 Place the cotton balls in areas where mice are likely to enter your house, by doorways or heat vents, etc. 2  Another helpful deterrent is to grow peppermint plants near the entryways. 3  You can use the mint in cooking as well as it serving a deterrent purpose.
Nov 12, 2015. 20 kilometers (12 miles) for a 1 milliwatt beam. Laser light can travel 20 kilometers (12 miles) per-milliwatt that is contained within the laser.
Long-Range IR Transmitter. Most of the IR remotes work reliably within a range of 5 metres. The circuit complexity increases if you design the IR transmitter for reliable operation over a longer range, say, 10 metres. To double the range from 5 metres to 10 metres, you need to increase the transmitted power four times. If you wish to real i se a highly directional IR beam (very narrow beam), you can suitably use an IR laser pointer as the IR signal source. The laser pointer is readily available in the market.