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Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« on: February 27, 2009, 01:57:04 PM »
They all have basically the same components but they all look a little bit different.  Thanks to gkowen for the camera wiring job mine is done and will be out in the front yard tonight for a test run, everything seems to work fine right now.  I made a little rain bonnet for it, have to see how that works out.  The camera is the W150.








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Re: Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2009, 04:45:56 PM »
cool, What do you guys use to keep the Bears from destroying your cameras?

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Re: Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2009, 04:55:43 PM »
prayer.

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Re: Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2009, 06:09:10 PM »
I am hoping a bear will destroy mine. Then I will know the bear is there.

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Re: Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2009, 07:30:30 PM »
:)  That camera is going to scare someone...looks like a face, very cool, great camo job.  I'll be interested to see if the hood causes you any problems with shadows.  Thanks for sharing.  What type of wire are you using to connect your camera to the control board?
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Re: Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2009, 07:54:46 PM »
:)  That camera is going to scare someone...looks like a face, very cool, great camo job.  I'll be interested to see if the hood causes you any problems with shadows.  Thanks for sharing.  What type of wire are you using to connect your camera to the control board?

I can't really say, gkowen supplied it with the wire job.  It looks pretty much like the servo wire you get from yeticam except longer.   :dunno:

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Re: Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2009, 09:03:23 PM »
It is just standard 22 guage wire. It can be cut off to the right length.  I made it long in case you wanted to glue it down around the case a bit. I learned from experience and unsecured wire can fall between the fresnel lens and the PIR sensor.

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Re: Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2009, 09:27:46 PM »
It is just standard 22 guage wire. It can be cut off to the right length.  I made it long in case you wanted to glue it down around the case a bit. I learned from experience and unsecured wire can fall between the fresnel lens and the PIR sensor.

Good tip , I'll do that before I put it out in the bush.

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Re: Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2009, 11:05:53 AM »
New trail cam pictures taken last night.  I had the rain bonnet on the camera and you can see that the flash gets reflected off of it so it isn't great for flash pictures. It did keep the rain off the lens though.  I cropped most of the reflection out of the raccoon pictures except the 1st one.  I didn't crop the dog pic. I had some test pics during daylight and they were ok.









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Re: Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2009, 01:06:29 PM »
Last fall I made a rain hood from a flexible thin dense closed-cell foam and it worked well.  I just used a thumbtack to attach it to the tree right above the camera.  It was more of a little shelf than a hood, as you've made.  I like yours better but you might try leaving a little tab off the back that you can fold up and tack to the tree.  Or you could just move yours up a tad to avoid the flash issue.  I like the drop sides on yours a lot better than what I'd done as well.  with wind and rain, you're on the right track!  I better go polish off the milk now... :chuckle:
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Re: Another Homebrew up for testing tonight
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2009, 01:18:16 PM »
Last fall I made a rain hood from a flexible thin dense closed-cell foam and it worked well.  I just used a thumbtack to attach it to the tree right above the camera.  It was more of a little shelf than a hood, as you've made.  I like yours better but you might try leaving a little tab off the back that you can fold up and tack to the tree.  Or you could just move yours up a tad to avoid the flash issue.  I like the drop sides on yours a lot better than what I'd done as well.  with wind and rain, you're on the right track!  I better go polish off the milk now... :chuckle:

I trimmed it some and will try it again tonight , see what happens.  It may be ok if I just get it a little farther away from the lens like you suggested.

 


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