Prevent rotation of feeder

tfabris / CrowCam

A set of Bash scripts to control and maintain a YouTube live cam from a Synology NAS.

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Prevent rotation of feeder #15

Closed tfabris closed 5 years ago

tfabris commented 5 years ago

The feeder rotates easily. The place where the pole attaches to the bottom of the feeder is allowed to twist easily.

Advantages:

Easy to reposition feeder for camera angles.
If an animal jumps onto the feeder, I can easily see it on the video backscroll because the feeder changes its position each time.

Disadvantages:

Each time a squirrel leaps onto or off of the feeder, it rotates the feeder a bit closer to the window each time, eventually putting the feeder pointing into the window, such that the crows are more skittish about using it.
Potential for the feeder to spin in high winds.

Stopping the disadvantages is more important in this case, so add a thumbscrew or some other system to keep the feeder from rotating.

tfabris commented 5 years ago

Feeder rotation has been reduced. Added some tape where pole meets feeder, and CA'd one pair of pole sections which was too easy to rotate.

Feeder can still rotate but it takes some effort now.

If this continues to be a problem, re-open this bug.

tfabris commented 5 years ago

Reopening issue. After having messed with the feeder height a bit, it now rotates too much again. May Need to re-tape one of the higher joints and CA one of the lower joints.

tfabris commented 5 years ago

Did some more work on it today. Observe its status on the cam tomorrow and see how it does.

tfabris commented 5 years ago

Nope, still needs more work. A squirfuffel today caused it to rotate quite a bit.

tfabris commented 5 years ago

Some exterior tape on one of the pole joints appears to have fixed the issue. Closing for now, we'll see how it does in the long run.

tfabris commented 5 years ago

It worked OK for a while and I tried tweaking the feeder position a bit. At that point, the "stickiness" of the upper joint (where pole meets feeder) failed and now needs to be re-taped, either with more teflon tape, or some other friction system.

tfabris commented 5 years ago

Tried another set of fixes today. Let's see how it does.