Went out last night to turn on the garden tap and check the motion activated sprinkler and discovered the system has a problem. The PIR sensor turns on and stays on? Gave up after stuffing around for a while and shut everything down.
Decided to combine the sensor unit, irrigation solenoid and impact sprinkler on a length of pine timber. The incentive for doing this is to deter a wandering cat that is now visiting us much too frequently at night; stalking our possums and nesting birds!
Was in Bunnings the other day and something reminded me of this 2016 project gathering dust under a workbench.
The basic concept is if you have a problem with unwelcome visitors (daytime/nocturnal…anytime) this is for you. Originally I came up with this idea to solve a particular problem, to keep a daytime prowling cat out of the backyard that was stalking our chooks. After I do a review of this with some costing I'll put it up on Al's Workshop - see what happens.
On the left is a water solenoid and to the right the control box. I'll do another post explaining how this works along with a demo in the backyard.
After the failure of the water solenoid pictured here managed to swap for a larger one.
Our Chooks - Prowling Cat
We have a cat coming over the back fence stalking our chooks. I have put up some stop-gap wire and since then have not actually seen the bloody thing in the backyard. Still it's a big worry so we need to do more to strengthen and monitor the perimeter:
1) Put up more fencing
2) Install CCTV cameras
3) Buy or make a Motion Activated Sprinkler
