Re: Spider in the motion sensor

["Bill Stock" <me7@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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.
>


One of the things the sensor(s) do is select the camera(s) in the same
location as the sensor and output them to the video system. We use to see
the odd coon/possum/cat/teenager/badger/heron/etc., but lately it's a whole
lot of nothing for this sensor. I suppose it could be bats or something hard
to see, but I suspect gremlins.