Customer Reviews

Sunforce 80001 Solar Pest Repeller

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For several years I've been plagued by gophers. I have dogs that would like to help me root them out and so they've had to be confined to a pen that has chicken wire to prevent the digging (the only time they dig is to go after the gophers). My yard looked like it had the measles from all the gopher mounds and mowing was a real drag. I did get smelly things, tried all the organic methods I could find from garlic to peppers to castor oil sprayed on the runs (apparently they don't like that). There was no change. I just hate to kill them! This little thing did the trick. I live in clay soil so I guess it's helpful but the mole holes have completely stopped. There is no evidence left that they like my yard. I bought two and put them one in the front and one in the back but the gophers in the side yard seem to be gone too. I'm on just under 3/4 acre. I think the change is these devices as the timing was right but as soon as it warms a little more here, I will know for sure. I'm pretty sure already as I was getting new mounds of activity and they have completely stopped, so I'm thinking these babies did the job. Yippee, no gophers! Maybe I can let the dogs back into the big yard!

The burrowing activity has certainly been reduced, and plants are no longer disappearing or dying from gophers and moles destroying their roots, but on occasion I still see evidence of burrowing activity right up to 8" from the repeller. The Sunforce Repeller has a been a reasonable substitute for poisons or traps in an area that is contiguous with a wild life preserve.

The Sunforce 80001 Solar Pest Repeller works as advertised. It started up straight way and hasn't stopped all summer. True to published cautions, it does tend to attract creatures out of curiosity for the first day or so before repelling them, but that's certainly not a defect of the product. We bought two of these to cover our somewhat large front lawn and I find it advantageous to move them around every few weeks just to ensure we're "marking our turf" and not letting any of our little visitors get too accustomed to the buzzing that the repellers emit. I can recommend this product to anyone suffering from underground attacks as a reliable means of discouraging unwanted space invaders.

The moles taunt me as they push up the mounds next to the "solar pest repeller". Sorry folks. This just doesn't work.

The product arrived quickly, installed easily, and has done a great job of chasing away those pesky rodents!! It emits a high frequency sound so that you know it's doing its job!!

Long-term report: We purchased two of these last August, expecting to return them, because sonic repellers such as these seem to work for us but have never lasted. Both started within a few minutes of installation and have worked ever since. I really expected them to drown, as have others, during the winter rains here in the southwest corner of Oregon but, when the rains finally quit a week ago, both repellers were still sounding off.

I intend to purchase more of these later this summer to cover more of the garden area. As I said, they worked for us; apparently our gophers are not as persistent as other people's so it is a crap shoot as to whether your rodents will be bothered by them. But these repellers do last.

It has the large solar cell surface and works longer time than other devices.

Even after the dark, it works.

It is great for us to have this device in our both front and back yards.

No more problem by moles.

In reading the reviews I guess this is just hit and miss. It seems to have worked for some people, but didn't work at all for me. I don't like the loud beeping noise, but I wouldn't mind it if it was repelling the squirrels, if anything I seem to have more of them. It was a waste of money for me.

After trying digging, water, and poison pellets I was about to give up. Nothing worked and the mole just kept digging in my yard. I looked online and found this as a solution. After being in my yard for a few days the tunneling stopped and the mole had given up. No batteries to change and no wires. Just needs sunlight.

Wish I had tried this long ago, but now I have 2 of these in my yard and no more moles........

At least in New Mexico, these and other sound repellers do not work. Neither does granular deterrent. Traps work IF you find someone who sets them properly.