Post by matt on Sept 20, 2019 17:00:23 GMT
Finished upgrading the second box, which is the box that has been replaced by the new sideview box. This box will go along the side of the house near a hole in the wall (which I will fill) was being used by a sparrow last year.
Paint job to tidy it up - looks a lot better!
The new internals. This is a much cleaner layout than before, with camera in the middle and a new PIR motion sensor at the bottom. There is a MOSFET transistor to turn the lights on and off as required, and the lights are also dimmable:
This is the underside of the camera unit, which sits on two strips of wood attached to the sides of the box. You can see PIR unit and hole for the camera. The bottom layer is held about 5mm from the top layer and is made of translucent lightbox perspex:
This is the underside with the cover removed, so you can see the new LED configuration. This is just a couple of short sections of cheap 5v LED strip which seems to work very well (so far!):
Happy to go into more detail if anyone is interested. This box will hopefully go up tomorrow, and then set to record videos on motion-detect.
Paint job to tidy it up - looks a lot better!
The new internals. This is a much cleaner layout than before, with camera in the middle and a new PIR motion sensor at the bottom. There is a MOSFET transistor to turn the lights on and off as required, and the lights are also dimmable:
This is the underside of the camera unit, which sits on two strips of wood attached to the sides of the box. You can see PIR unit and hole for the camera. The bottom layer is held about 5mm from the top layer and is made of translucent lightbox perspex:
This is the underside with the cover removed, so you can see the new LED configuration. This is just a couple of short sections of cheap 5v LED strip which seems to work very well (so far!):
Happy to go into more detail if anyone is interested. This box will hopefully go up tomorrow, and then set to record videos on motion-detect.