Thread: Cheap/ easy motion sensor

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You can get the 4 second ones at walmart for cheap, that is where I got mine last year.

Thank you, I will check them out!

I got mine at Home Depot and I want to say it was 5-10 seconds in TEST Mod

All the units at my local Home Depot seemed to be 1/5/10 minutes. Mostly Zenith brand.

If you put it on the test mode, they don't stay on long.

I also made one and here is a pic of what mine turned out like

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I would make sure you purchase one that has the test mode plus 1/5/10 minutes. Mine only has the test mode and 4/8 minutes and I wish I had one that had the 1 minute. I might even buy new ones and change them over.

has anyone played with the sensor's field of vision? Can I take some duct tape to cover the sensor "eye" to keep it from reacting to everything around? A number of the one's I looked at have a 120 degree field of vision or more.

Mark: I used to install motions for an alarm company and we frequently would Limit the field of view with masking tape on the inside of the cover. We did it there so it didn't show but would be no problem to do it on the outside. Most of the time we did this due to pets or something else that would cause false triggers in an area.

Anyone built one of these using the X10 Dual flood lights, I've got a couple laying around and was thinking with them I could go ahead and trigger other non-wired props.
Mongo

Great help. Thanks

I got to admire all you folks who take the time to take pictures. When I get started on a project I don't think about pictures till after the fact.

Originally Posted by sikntwizted

Sounds like Brad made his a little nicer. Show them pics.

Sorry it took so long. I did survive. and here are those puictures.



Hope these help.

What an awesome and easy idea.

Where can you buy the socket to outlet adapters?

My local Home Depot had some.