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You're so scared as you leave the house that you drop your backpack in the street, where it is scavenged by vagrants.

The wiring is wrong, it's connected to the upper wires when it should be connected to the voltage switch. Look at some of the other castledraft posts for examples.

There are some very simple and some much more complicated ways of doing what you are trying to achieve.

The most basic way is to have the wired walls powered and have the circuitry beyond them require that power - for instance you could have a bit lock later on that will supply power to a hall of pit traps with the right combination, but only if the power supply has not been cut - http://castledraft.com/editor/VMsSMm. It is also very simple to have it so that alternating power from a clock bit is passing through the wired walls and that once you cut them the only way past a hall of pit + electric floors is to brute force through.

Now, using paradox's to send signals is something you'll only really want to do if for some reason you want the circuitry to remain unpowered. An example of this might be if you want cutting some unpowered electric floors to trigger the fail-safe. I did this in Mr Prices house - cutting the electric floors at the start would instantly open the cat door letting the cat through.  You can do this in lots of ways, one is to have it so the paradox provides half of the power required while a second out of phase paradox provides the other half. Here is an example:
http://castledraft.com/editor/7gbGFB

In this example there are two paradox generators - one in the top left that also acts as a trap, cutting the wire in front of you while standing on it will get you killed. The second is in the bottom right and is attached to a delay. The two paradox signals combined cause the trapdoors to be consistently powered but if you were to cut the electric wire half the signal would be cut and the trapdoors will open. Check out the Advanced Electronics section of the wiki for an explanation on how the components work.

Another option is to have one paradox circuit block a second delayed one - http://castledraft.com/editor/ydlfsO.
If the wire is cut the second will no longer be blocked and will now power a bit-storage unit that will close the electric doors in front of the vault.

I hope this helps, let me know if there is something more specific that you are after.

There does seem to be a limit to this though, keeping a wife at the top of the list is pretty much impossible as someone will eventually come through with 40 guns and take her out.