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The ANY-maze Touch switch interface

Introduction

The ANY-maze Touch switch interface is designed to detect when an animal touches something conductive.

Figure 1. The ANY-maze Touch switch interface.

For example, the touch switch can be used to detect when the animal licks at a bottle spout, when the animal's paw touches a metal plate on the wall of a cage, or when the animal slips from a grid and its paw touches a metal floor. In all cases the animal needs to be in contact with something else that's conductive - usually the floor of the cage - so that the animal completes a circuit between the two things when it makes a touch - see figure 2, below.

Figure 2. An ANY-maze Touch switch interface being used to detect when an animal licks at the spout of a water bottle.

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