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Have you seen what fox cubs do to any wire at there level :unsure: I used to have multiple Sat dishes up to 2mtr in my large garden. All the cables were run in 4 inch pipe but where they rise out to remote control the dish's I had to chicken wire them or the fox cubs ate them! I have a few gel...

Hopefully this may be of interest, Fox's love raw eggs, this time of the year they take them back to the den for the kits or the nursing Vixen. They are so careful not to damage the shell.

I have the result of the 5000mAh power bank with 200 ohms connected across the USB output. Last night was a success, 57 separate 1minute recordings, so at least 260-290mA load each time plus the constant 24mA keep alive used a very unscientific less than 1/4 of the bank looking at the remaining...

I found this one thanks for that

I could but its making it as simple as possible and I cant be sure the sun will always keep it ready for the next night. I need to swop the memory cards over quite often. Every day if I cant wait to see what's been captured so its no bother to swop out the battery pack if its just plug n play.

I just tried to upload some camera video of our resident hedgehog crawling into the fox's bowl of dog food, having a wonderful time, the fox turned up and was most put out that his snout got pricked while trying to share the food. There is a whole host of goings on at night here with at least 2...

Yes good point, thanks. I will rig up a trial tonight with 25mA and see how that goes, then try for less until it fails to stay awake.

Seems I need to find a schoolkid now then. Sitting here watching my power bank lights constantly glowing with 2 x 100ohm 1/4watt resistors in series drawing 24mA from the pack. I was making a meal out of it using an LED as well. So 5000mAh pack with no other load (camera) should go for a week at...

Thanks for the swift reply, its stand alone power banks I will be using just cable tied to the back of the camera's. Like these or maybe 10000mAh ones https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08T1JCXR5 No trailing leads/wires/mains or wall warts will be used or harmed in the making of this project ;)

I wonder if there are members here who may have already solved this question? I have several trail camera's set up in the garden to video wildlife, all are 6volt and all take 8 AA batteries, that's 2 banks of 4 batteries. Thats lots of batteries and even using rechargeables which report less...

Just to put this to bed, I bought a new to me 3yr old Dell Optiplex to replace my aging Inspiron and using speedtest in a browser tab on the new pc gives the true maximum speed now. So somehow my old pc was messing with speedtest when used in a browser.

I had Txxxx fibre installed last year 300/100Mbps which although it was error free in the most part didn't seem on my 10yr old PC to give much advantage over the old fttc at 30Mbps I had for years before that. My contract ended and a black Friday deal gave me 900/300Mbps for the same price as...

I think all deaf men must suffer the same with their wives, mine drives me crazy daily with conversations through walls etc, I have enough of a problem when you are in the same room facing me dear! I have NHS aids, one ear near completely deaf the other trying to catch up. One of my hobbies is...

I've been using Macrium for quite a few years, its set up to take a full backup on 1st of each month then incremental backups daily, keeping several of each just in case onto a second drive in my PC. I also do a backup to an external drive every 3 months. Its been so long since I interacted with...

Ah but the NHS now offer bluetooth aids and they will migrate me over to them real soon. Well that's what they told me 12 months ago, still waiting....