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Cats keeping us up!

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Loreena

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Is there any way to keep cats from turning on motion lights? We have cats on the farm here (please hold the get rid of them thoughts until someone comes up with a mouse trap that works better!) and they keep turning on the security lights.

Sometimes this sets off the neighbor's dogs which are HUGE afghan wolfhounds that have barks like fog horns! I'm awake now because of this and it's getting old. :|

The dogs are good because they let you know if someone is coming around too so I don't know what do do. 🙁
 
Buy infrared motion detection lights. You can set them to not pickup small animals. There expensive though i think.
 
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Buy infrared motion detection lights. You can set them to not pickup small animals. There expensive though i think.
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I don't know what these are but when it gets windy sometimes the trees about 30 feet from the furthest pole out set that one off!
 
Originally posted by: Loreena
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Buy infrared motion detection lights. You can set them to not pickup small animals. There expensive though i think.
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I don't know what these are but when it gets windy sometimes the trees about 30 feet from the furthest pole out set that one off!
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Should be able to rig this up to your lights. Although im no expert, just search around for infrared motion detetors.Link.
 
Originally posted by: FDF12389
What kind of solution are you expecting us to come up with?
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A final solution?

A reasonable proposal?



I believe most motion sensors have a sensitivity setting, although setting them to not pick up cats will probably make them more cranky about picking up humans, especially those darn neighbor's kids.
/shakes cane feebly

try this? You can tape off part of the sensor to reduce sensitivity, maybe start taping it from the bottom up.
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Originally posted by: Loreena
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Buy infrared motion detection lights. You can set them to not pickup small animals. There expensive though i think.
Click to expand...

I don't know what these are but when it gets windy sometimes the trees about 30 feet from the furthest pole out set that one off!
Click to expand...

Should be able to rig this up to your lights. Although im no expert, just search around for infrared motion detetors.Link.
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I'd be surprised if his lights aren't already IR...after all, they work at night, don't they?

 
Originally posted by: Loreena
Originally posted by: FDF12389
What kind of solution are you expecting us to come up with?
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This is ATOT you guys come up with anything lol
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Eat some cat food, down a beer, and huff some glue. I'm told the internal chemical reaction makes you feel very ill, and your only recourse is to pass out.
 
Do you have security lights for convenience or because you're paranoid? If they aren't that important replace them with regular lights. If you're afraid of being robbed it sounds like the dogs are good enough. Either the lights or the cats have to go, decide which.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: FDF12389
What kind of solution are you expecting us to come up with?
Click to expand...

A final solution?

A reasonable proposal?



I believe most motion sensors have a sensitivity setting, although setting them to not pick up cats will probably make them more cranky about picking up humans, especially those darn neighbor's kids.
/shakes cane feebly

try this? You can tape off part of the sensor to reduce sensitivity, maybe start taping it from the bottom up.
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Originally posted by: Loreena
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Buy infrared motion detection lights. You can set them to not pickup small animals. There expensive though i think.
Click to expand...

I don't know what these are but when it gets windy sometimes the trees about 30 feet from the furthest pole out set that one off!
Click to expand...

Should be able to rig this up to your lights. Although im no expert, just search around for infrared motion detetors.Link.
Click to expand...

I'd be surprised if his lights aren't already IR...after all, they work at night, don't they?
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Well if they are it doesnt matter much. That IR detector ignores pets. Also thats the only way i can think of fixing it, the tape would probably also work.
 
Originally posted by: I4AT
Do you have security lights for convenience or because you're paranoid? If they aren't that important replace them with regular lights. If you're afraid of being robbed it sounds like the dogs are good enough. Either the lights or the cats have to go, decide which.
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No it's just convenient to have them when you need to go out to the woodpile or need something from the barn. Those dogs are on a wireless fence and will run through it to rip a trespasser a new one so no worries about that at all. It does seem like those lights come on if a mouse farts now since we had a bad lightning storm a few months ago. A month after that we lost a well pump so it probably ah heck'd something up with the lights because the cats haven't gotten that much bigger from fall harvest. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: tasmanian

Well if they are it doesnt matter much. That IR detector ignores pets. Also thats the only way i can think of fixing it, the tape would probably also work.
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Oh, passive. Yeah, that's different. Most motion detectors are active, and so they are much more sensitive to small moving objects.
 
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Originally posted by: Loreena
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Buy infrared motion detection lights. You can set them to not pickup small animals. There expensive though i think.
Click to expand...

I don't know what these are but when it gets windy sometimes the trees about 30 feet from the furthest pole out set that one off!
Click to expand...

Should be able to rig this up to your lights. Although im no expert, just search around for infrared motion detetors.Link.
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That looks like a good detector but 12V and a relay is a bit much to hook up at four places.

The detectors are about 10 years old and made by intermatic. They are metal fixtures not the plastic ones and have been working great up until about a month ago.
 
Yeah, newer lights will have sensitivity sensors. There's a similar one at my dad's house that simply went on the fritz like yours. You're better off offsetting the minor cost with sweet, sweet sleep.
 
Originally posted by: FDF12389
What kind of solution are you expecting us to come up with?
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im wondering if its a real farm if they have "neighbors" and need security lights.

its a fake farm, probably a puppy mill. OP should be arrested.
 
Originally posted by: Loreena
Originally posted by: MrPickins
There should be a sensitivity adjustment on the sensor.
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There isn't just a bright/dim switch.
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you may have to take off the cover plate to see the controls. otherwise, just replace the fixtures / motion switches with ones that can be adjusted.
 
Some motion light sensors can have their sensitivity adjusted. Also change their angle slightly so its more likely for a walking human to trigger them instead of a little cat.
 
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