Advice The Home Improvement/Automation Thread

[Domon]

how you gonna remote control it? Jump the relay so its on all the time and use a smart plug to apply power?

 

[Jehannum]

I already mentioned there was power there dickhead.

Is it "just on the other side of the wall", like all your eleventy one other power freakouts?

 

[gee]

Yeah, you'll have to measure how much current that pump draws and find a suitable power supply that'll run it. Wouldn't be surprised of those things pull 5-10 amps.

Instead of just getting a pump, I'd suggest scrapyard trip and getting the full combination pump/reservoir + hack the pigtail off the car as J suggested. And steal a washer nozzle and some tube and everything else and you'll have everything you need except switched 12V.

edit: steal a horn off the car, and maybe even steal a fog light. So you get bright light, blaring horn AND a blast of piss.

 

[fly]

But I don't want to go to a scrapyard... *whine*

edit: What about this then

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[Domon]

My way is cheaper and easier.

Also, a racoon may not give a shit about being squirted with a windshield wiper stream (and/or it may miss them, whereas a rotating stream from a sprinkler sure wont)

 

[Jehannum]

But I don't want to go to a scrapyard... *whine*

edit: What about this then

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You can use that one with some 1/4" spade connectors, so yeah, that'll do, pig.

 

[fly]

My way is cheaper and easier.

Also, a racoon may not give a shit about being squirted with a windshield wiper stream (and/or it may miss them, whereas a rotating stream from a sprinkler sure wont)

That thing is $60, but I guess I might get there with the wiper and relays/psu/etc. RACOON WIPER 9000 seems so much cooler tho.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Yeah, that'd do it. Probably want some kind of a pigtail to go with that, which is why I'd go to the salvage yard in any event.

Sasquatch has a point. I'd also get the container from the junkyard.

 

[gee]

My way is cheaper and easier.

Also, a racoon may not give a shit about being squirted with a windshield wiper stream (and/or it may miss them, whereas a rotating stream from a sprinkler sure wont)

This is a good point. High pressure blast from a garden hose vs a dribble of piss is gonna have a much better effect.

Also, can't this be built with 100% off-the-shelf shit, like this?

Amazon product ASIN B0758NR8DJ

 

[Domon]

in that case, just hook it into your irrigation, make your irrigation smart, and control that "zone".

If you wanna do it from a hose, just get a bhyve hose end controller. Theres a great bhyve integration for HA

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I have included AA batteries.

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[Domon]

This is a good point. High pressure blast from a garden hose vs a dribble of piss is gonna have a much better effect.

Also, can't this be built with 100% off-the-shelf shit, like this?

Amazon product ASIN B0758NR8DJ

thats the same one i linked him to earlier And then he gets garden-hose stream blast rather than windshield piss stream.

edit: goddamnit, thats what you said. I need to read.

 

[Mikeawesome]

so how are you gonna have it blast coons but not cats

 

[wetwillie]

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Use it to pump other shit later. 5 gallon bucket for tank.

 

[Jehannum]

Sasquatch has a point. I'd also get the container from the junkyard.

I wouldn't. The reservoirs tend to be made of some kind of shitty polyethylene that crumbles when exposed to UV light for any length of time.

 

[fly]

so how are you gonna have it blast coons but not cats

rtfta

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

I wouldn't. The reservoirs tend to be made of some kind of shitty polyethylene that crumbles when exposed to UV light for any length of time.

So, there's this thing called "paint"

 

[Jehannum]

So, there's this thing called "paint"

Yeah, but often times in the salvage yard, things like overflow reservoirs and windshield washer reservoirs have been sitting dry for months to years in the sun.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Yeah, but often times in the salvage yard, things like overflow reservoirs and windshield washer reservoirs have been sitting dry for months to years in the sun.

Around here the only yards available swap inventory pretty quick, but I'll concede the point.

 

[Domon]

As the king of overcomplicating shit, ya'll are overcomplicating this project for @fly.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

As the king of overcomplicating shit, ya'll are overcomplicating this project for @fly.

The project was overcomplicated by the basic parameters of what he wanted.
He has a camera on it, he can get off his ass and go yell at the animals, but noooooo