Glade makes one

Post #342,405 by mhuber 5/6/11 11:49:45 PM Reply	Glade makes one My cats (well, I'm pretty sure just one of them) uses my bathtub as an annex to the cat box. So I was trying to rig up something like the item in the video, but I'm kind of cheap so I got a Glade air freshener to take apart for the motion sensor. And I realized that the air freshener makes a hissing sound like an angry cat. Better yet, the servo motor growls first, and then you get a hiss. I just put the unit in the tub as-is. Not really dramatic, and it relies on changes in light so I have to leave the bathroom light on, but it works. --------------------------------------- I think it's perfectly clear we're in the wrong band. (Tori Amos)
Post #342,406 by drook 5/7/11 12:01:16 AM Reply	Wonder how long until the cat learns -- Drew
Post #342,407 by static 5/7/11 8:22:27 AM Reply	That reminds me. I made a sensor light on a cord to help keep the cats out of the Christmas tree one year. It was inspired by a story from Adminiscott, actually, and in the end it was an IR sensor on a box, properly wired up (!) to a plug and a socket. I've still got it somewhere We only used it once and it was partially effective. I'd plugged a radio into it, which was almost more interesting than whatever TV we were trying to watch. :-/ Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #342,408 by malraux 5/7/11 9:08:30 AM Reply	We only had to use it a few years Then the cats developed a Righteous Fear of Christmas trees. Of course, I was using a shop vac and not something so weak and humane as a radio... Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #342,409 by Ashton 5/7/11 3:57:50 PM 5/7/11 4:00:50 PM Reply	'Driveway Patrol' is a wireless beeper with remote sensor, (range maybe even 600'.) Dirt cheap on Amazon -- $15ish at time I + neighbor bought a couple sets. I needed to monitor In/Out to garage re. Outdoor Cat, Petra and especially.. ^%#@%$@^$! raccoons! enroute to check if any food is left over. (And yess, after being busted/rousted maybe 10X-in-a-row ... raccoons Can Learn to fuck off!) It helps to toss a few small rocks at them as they waddle away, to emphasize that it is Not a game for their amusement. These are nasty creatures, known/seen to mutilate chickens wholesale, even through fence wire -- for no reason associated with food / just Repo-grade blood lust. Reliable, decent battery life: 3 C-cells in base monitor + a 9V in sensor/xmitter ... lasted many months. (9V must have been drawing only μamps in wait-mode.) False alarms arise only if foliage is in scan field + wind-motion or.. early morning sun direct (you make a toilet paper tube collimator for more directionality.) All-in-all, I thought these a bargain which did exactly as claimed. A lot of well-designed techno for a pittance. As to bathtub matter: 2 loudnesses of monitor alarm means that, with receiver in tub with sensor -- cat would exit in-haste, I wot. Lots of other applications come to mind, not least of which -- as it is IR and invisible with easy camouflage of sensor -- prowler confirmation, cheaper than CCTV if not quite as amusing or evidence-creating. Bon appetit Ed: 3 C-cells, not 4. Edited by Ashton May 7, 2011, 04:00:50 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #342,410 by Andrew Grygus 5/7/11 5:35:26 PM Reply	Yes, raccoons very much enjoy killing . . . . . even much more than cats do.
Post #342,414 by drook 5/8/11 11:34:52 AM Reply	And cats like it A LOT -- Drew

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