I want to create stand alone, battery operated red led lights to place in my garden to fool the deer into thinking the red light is a coyote eye, and deter their entry into my fenced yard. I've heard rumor this works and thought a model RR forum might be a good place to ask.
Thanks
No Deer
Well, I never heard that rumor, and not sure if this board is the best place to learn about outdoor optical vermin control, but at least somebody's trying to make money off this idea
If you eat meat/meat products, "mark" your garden with your urine. Deer interpret that as, "A carnivore lives here - so I'd better go elsewhere."
Sounds nasty, but I've been told (by back-country gardeners) that it works.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
No, no, I understand that - I'm just saying that someone else has already thought of marketing to this idea (of red lights to scare off critters at night). Anyway, I didn't check but have you looked in the Garden Railroad forums? You need something conditioned for the outdoors (waterproof and secure), probably solar powered (so you don't to fuss around w/ replacing or recharging batteries - solar charges them up during the day, and the red led drains them at night - I guess you could use lo-V wired lighting too), either timer or photovoltic controled (so they don't come on during daylight) - So Garden Railroading seem more likely (albiet gardening boards and electronics boards would be even better).
I wired in led headlights into this tractor. Its wired into the landscape lights, 12 volt line, wired in series with a 1000 ohm resistor. You could do the same thing or just use a couple of 1.5 volt cells (AA, C, or D's).
As a landscaping professional, I have never read or heard of using "eye lights" to scare off deer. Though Jodie the pig was pretty scary in the Amitvville Horror -
-Brian
Yeah I can make you the boards free or you can make make them. Either way email me. Just need power.
Toad
Hi
If you'd be willing to make up a few, I would sure appreciate it. I imagine them on a small board so I could rest them on a log or a box and move them each evening. I am thinking to use AA or AAA batteries for portability. thanks for the offer.
Barry
Ukiah, CA
Barry,
Let me know how far apart you want the red LED eyes.
Not a problem with volts, easy 9 volt will do.
3" would do, and would 9 volt.
Thank you
Is it REAL? or Just 1:29 scale?
Long live Outdoor Model Railroading.
If it works it will only work for a short time.
Deer learn fast.
If it does not move or attact them they very quickly to ignore them.
I hung "CD"s in various places around my yard. At first the flashes scared the deer. About two weeks later the deer romed with out fear.
Then I ran my remote controlled truck at the deer. They looked at it comming. Then it got stuck on a stick. The deer actually walked up to it and sniffed it.
I also tried urine on my evergreen trees. The deer make umbrellas out of my trees by eating the parts they can reach. that did not work.
The only thing that scares them off is you or your dog chasing them.
Well........put up a dam fence and be done with it.
Not sure where your from Spike but me I am from Texas and these are DEER fences!
Holy C--P Only in Texas Will you find fences that high.
As my monical states. I am in Michigan City In. on the sothern tip of Lake Michigan.
I could use a fence like that to keep my malicious neighbors out. The maximum fence we can have here is 8 ft. I will need a "OK" from that very neighbor to erect it.
Texas is NOT the only state with high fences.
The Los Alamos. NM, airport was surrounded by a high fence to keep deer out. One day, the last flight clobbered a deer that had managed to outsmart the fence. The propeller wasn't too badly bent so it was 'straightened' and went on its way to be repaired at Albuquerque.
Living there, I often used the flight service, but trusting my luck to a manually straightened prop would not be in my frame of things.
Art
Art, you in Tx. so show us this fence........
Just called you out........
12 gauge blanks
http://www.ableammo.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=73300
but the deer may be used to be shot at and missed
Bailed out of Los Alamos in 66. Only contact I have left is blind in one eye and can't see out of the other, so auto travel (5 mi) to the airport for pictures is out for him. Gas is too dear to take unnecessary trips, anyway.
Haven't travelled into that airport since leaving but I'll bet the deer are still there and the fence, too. Deer wander day and night around here, too. Since it's got canyons on 3 side, really on the edge of town, deer population control is just slightly impossible.
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