Re: Spider in the motion sensor

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Bill Stock" <me7@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've got a wired sensor that's been coming on all night. So I cut back the
> usual suspects (trees), but still no joy. I thought it might be a spider,
so
> I evicted one tonight. But it seems to be doing it again.
>
> Assuming the spider is back, any human safe home remedies for keeping
> spiders out?

I read, perhaps here, that WD-40 and or teflon spray lube leaves a residue
that spiders have a hard time dealing with.  Others have recommended dousing
the area with bug spray.  I have a similar problem with IR CCTV cams whose
heat and or IR light attract a wide variety of critters.  I sprayed the
barrels with teflon spray lube and they haven't come back, but that could
just be dumb luck.  I have a video somewhere of one spider weaving a web
using the camera as an anchor point that looks like a cheap sci-fi film.

My guess is that if a spider got it, water could get in, too.  I suspect
moisture would be far more likely to cause malfunctions than a spider
wandering around but that's just a guess.  Who knows what a spider crawling
around on the surface of the detector can do?

I did have lots of problems with false triggering at night one year, and it
wasn't until a snowstorm that I saw the tracks of a possum that had moved
into a space under the shed.  Now, if I get plagued by falsing, I mount a
CCTV cam to monitor the area to see if I can match some sort of physical
event to the false triggering.  That's how I figured out that passing cars
were able to trigger my EagleEyes, and at a considerable distance.

--
Bobby G.