Alero
Enlightened
Our deer lease is overrun by feral hogs and we are hunting them. But they are VERY smart and avoid us, big time, during the day.
We set out feeders and they come to them all night long, but from the deer blind, about 100 years away, we can't see them or sight them in the dark. And if we spotlight them, they run. And we don't want to shoot them on the run and wound them. That's just cruel. Plus, we donate the meat!
So what we'd like to do is design a light that we can place on a pole near the feeder that will go on at dusk and off at dawn. We'll actually need 2 of them probably, but they can run off the same solar panel and battery.
We did some testing last weekend and my MRV and my Romisen MXDL RC-G2
(with upgraded circuit and Q5) were the best lights for the task.
So we want to build something like this:
http://www.texasoutdoorproducts.com/newhoglights.html
But ours needs to be dusk to dawn and not motion sensing. Our hogs are too smart and used to humans for motion sensors. We tried that already.
And the LED needs to be much stronger than these probably are.
Soooo….
Anyone ever built such a thing or seen such a thing?
I was considering a pair of Q5 lights from DX and just removing the switches to wire them to the unit. At 800mah each, I figure I'll need a battery around a 12-18ah.
I'm not sure how big of a solar charger we'll need. How do you convert watts to ah? Do you think 11 watts, like this one, would be enough?
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200306865_200306865
The other option I was considering, was to get a couple dozen of those little solar garden lights and just replace the LED with something more efficient. Any suggestions there?
We set out feeders and they come to them all night long, but from the deer blind, about 100 years away, we can't see them or sight them in the dark. And if we spotlight them, they run. And we don't want to shoot them on the run and wound them. That's just cruel. Plus, we donate the meat!
So what we'd like to do is design a light that we can place on a pole near the feeder that will go on at dusk and off at dawn. We'll actually need 2 of them probably, but they can run off the same solar panel and battery.
We did some testing last weekend and my MRV and my Romisen MXDL RC-G2
(with upgraded circuit and Q5) were the best lights for the task.
So we want to build something like this:
http://www.texasoutdoorproducts.com/newhoglights.html
But ours needs to be dusk to dawn and not motion sensing. Our hogs are too smart and used to humans for motion sensors. We tried that already.
And the LED needs to be much stronger than these probably are.
Soooo….
Anyone ever built such a thing or seen such a thing?
I was considering a pair of Q5 lights from DX and just removing the switches to wire them to the unit. At 800mah each, I figure I'll need a battery around a 12-18ah.
I'm not sure how big of a solar charger we'll need. How do you convert watts to ah? Do you think 11 watts, like this one, would be enough?
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200306865_200306865
The other option I was considering, was to get a couple dozen of those little solar garden lights and just replace the LED with something more efficient. Any suggestions there?
