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Take a look at this gizmo please folks.
I want to get something like this for my chicken enclosure to scare aways the multitude of sparrows that keep stealing food.
I don't want or need it to run all the time though, so I want a way to have it run for say a minute then stop for say ten minutes and cycle over and over, I'd turn the power off completely at night.
I gather that they draw around 2 amps at 120v AC.
This thing popping up periodically for a minute or so will literally scare the crap out of the sparrows.
I've been using kids party helium balloons for a few weeks and they work up to a point but a) the deflate after say four days and b) the sparrows grow accustomed to them particularly in calm weather with zero breeze.
I could also install some optical detection too, use that to signal if a bird flies inside the enclosure and then activate the blower for ten seconds or so.
The enclosure is a large cuboid basically wrapped in chicken wire (and has a coop situated inside) the sparrows have discovered that they can squeeze through the chicken wire holes and can now freely come and go.
I want to get something like this for my chicken enclosure to scare aways the multitude of sparrows that keep stealing food.
I don't want or need it to run all the time though, so I want a way to have it run for say a minute then stop for say ten minutes and cycle over and over, I'd turn the power off completely at night.
I gather that they draw around 2 amps at 120v AC.
This thing popping up periodically for a minute or so will literally scare the crap out of the sparrows.
I've been using kids party helium balloons for a few weeks and they work up to a point but a) the deflate after say four days and b) the sparrows grow accustomed to them particularly in calm weather with zero breeze.
I could also install some optical detection too, use that to signal if a bird flies inside the enclosure and then activate the blower for ten seconds or so.
The enclosure is a large cuboid basically wrapped in chicken wire (and has a coop situated inside) the sparrows have discovered that they can squeeze through the chicken wire holes and can now freely come and go.
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