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 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:01 am Post subject: Cheap Hog Early Detection System!!!!!!! DIY Cheap |
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This is a simple system myself and a buddy have used to great success. This system is cheap as heck and works like a charm, crazy good!! We set this under a feeder, then brought the remote inside the camper. We watched ESPN on the couch while listening to the monitor. When something walked by the feeder we could hear it, and when something started eating the corn it was loud as heck. We have tested this system at 100 yards and it worked like a charm. It was awesome, we went to bed with the relaxing sound of crickets etc.. in the middle of the night my friend alerted me that the something was hitting the corn. Proved to only be a coon, but still the system alerted us to the activity and my friend took care of the coon . I stayed inside the camper to listen to the shot and kill from the coons end. The suppressed rifle really sounded cool!!!
Just a 6 volt battery and a baby monitor from walmart, its completely portable and the handset is battery powered. For less than 50 bucks in parts I think its a very neat system.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:58 am Post subject: |
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That's kinda diabolical, I like it !
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| very impressed... you need a good name for it.. like "The sounder sounder" .. haha |
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| kingrabbit wrote: | | very impressed... you need a good name for it.. like "The sounder sounder" .. haha |
I`ll second that...
What a cool new project. 
Thanks for that eTXh.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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What brand baby monitor is that?
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| djc wrote: | | What brand baby monitor is that? |
Its a fisher price I believe, got it at walmart for 38 bucks.
Thanks guys!! You need to try it.
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| kingrabbit wrote: | | very impressed... you need a good name for it.. like "The sounder sounder" .. haha |
LOL thats great!!!
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What else is in the ammo can, besides the battery?
Thanks
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Cheap and effective. Can't beat that.
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| djc wrote: | What else is in the ammo can, besides the battery?
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Just an inverter I had laying around, decided to mount it in the can as well, so I can charge my cell phone etc.. Its not necessary though, the factory wires can be cut on the baby monitor and wired directly to the 6V battery. In addition the baby monitor only pulls 100 so the battery will last a very long time.
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If you have 6v feeder motors, you could tap into that source and eliminate the cost of the ammo can.
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| do you have a set of plans for you contraption or knnow where i could get some |
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| How did you know the baby monitor would work on a 6v battery? When you cut the 110v plug off the baby monitor, how do you know which wire is positive and which is negative? What is that thing sticking through the top of the ammo can? What brand name and model baby monitor did you use? I don’t see anything connected to the center post of the battery, how did you complete the circuit? I need to see better photos of this setup without the cell phone included. Thanks. |
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| Fred Winters wrote: | | How did you know the baby monitor would work on a 6v battery? When you cut the 110v plug off the baby monitor, how do you know which wire is positive and which is negative? What is that thing sticking through the top of the ammo can? What brand name and model baby monitor did you use? I don’t see anything connected to the center post of the battery, how did you complete the circuit? I need to see better photos of this setup without the cell phone included. Thanks. |
I am a newbie on electronics so I called my buddy. He told me to look at the output plug that came with the baby monitor. The output from the plug to baby monitor said 6V 100mhm. My original plan was to make it compatible with my Dewalt battery packs. My friend told me they were 18V and would likely fry the baby monitor. Cell phone? Maybe thats the inverter you are seeing in the pic, its not necessary at all. I will post the model number when I get home of the baby monitor, it was the only Fisher Price 900 MHZ model I found at walmart. I might of not had it hooked up when I took pics of the unit opened. All I had to get was some alligator clips from fry's then just hook it up.
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On knowing which is hot.
One of the sides had flutes on it and from what I have read thats the hot side most of the time.
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