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I would use fibre instead of cat6 due to the lighting risk

STEP UP TRANSFORMER THEN STEP DOWN TRANSFORMER Two tiny transformers step voltage up to maybe 600 or 1000 volts then step it back down The wire needed would be tiny! Lots of old telephone wire that goes from pole to pole is copper plated steel wire Used its almost free because of no recycle value! Its also very tough you would not need transformers for only 20 watts But you could use transformers to step up then down to push way more watts if latter you ever needed to

fvck my comments keep gettin deleted for some reason

No such thing as a quad bike, it has to be one or the other 🙂

I think you did a decent job on that floor to be fair. You can't be a pro at everything mate.

Ah just realised I'm 7 months behind you! Got a lot of videos to watch to catch up to real time. You are a bit of a geeky experimenter like me so i think i will enjoy this channel.

You need to harness that water for power. Kris Harbour has done a lot on water wheels on his channel.

You're learning but the road is long ;) bits and bytes are the same it's not a speed, a speed is always accompanied by time ;) kBps (kilo Byte per second), MBps (Mega Byte per second), Mbps (Mega bit per second) *bit is factor 8. Storage is MB (Mega Bytes), GB (Giga Bytes), TB (Terra Bytes). Think about when you drive (probably in Miles so). You have driven 100 miles but the speed was 10 miles per hour (as an example). ;)

To attach the solar panel on wide poles, you can use the strap in the camera strap to attach to a pole

Does PT mean point and tilt? Can you ask the camera to track animals when detected movement? How much sound does the camera make?

What a great camera, perfect for your land which i really wish i owned a slice of👍👊

You need to adjust the 'pre event' if this camera allows, as otherwise all your clips are the back of an animal just about to walk out of the scene. To get pre event it needs to be writing to the card all the time, then constantly deleting it, if theres a motion event it wont delete the clip from before the event, sort of like a dash cam when you press the button. If it doesnt have pre event just chuck it in the bin

Just use cheap rockwell sound insulation. Its waterproof ish as well

You should use a 4 inch pipe to run down from your water supply inlet and then split it off right at the bottom into your 2 inch pipe that go to your turbine nozzles. You will get more pressure thus more power

You were coughing a few times in your day 10 video so I worrying if you were coming down with something. When it comes to living off grid and not connected to water or electricity things like clean water is treated as liquid gold. I am amazed you did not have more buckets out there collecting rain water!

fortunate your family/friends/investors helps you buy the flat block. well done for taking the risk. video on it would be interesting.

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Found your channel a week or so ago and realised very quickly that you're doing what I would like to do in Scotland and if I end up doing it, your channel is super useful. Already learnt so much from the micro hydro, water, inverter and winterising videos. Very useful to have a person on CZcams talking candidly and openly about how they got where they are. Congratulations on the new baby. Here's to watching loads more interesting and illuminating videos. thanks.

Another great video mate. I am very envious of your off grid setup. Love these videos. Great work.

The motion capture seems to be lacking. It should do like dash cams and continually record but only save the clips that include trigger events plus one before and one after. That way you can save the whole event, not just the end. Waiting until after you've decided there's something to record means you will ALWAYS miss the best or most crucial part of the event. With traditional wildlife cams that didn't have solar panels you had to strictly minimise power usage, but one with a solar panel should have the power system optimized to fit the requirements of the camera in winter, shade and cloudy days. Doing it backwards and making the camera optimized for an inadequate power system makes the power system - and the camera - pointless. But most of those older type cameras did a much better job than this one of catching the interesting part, even without the benefit of continual recording. But the bottom line is that this camera can't have very well designed capture algorithms. It's far better for something like this to have a bunch of recordings of nothing than to have a few recordings of ALMOST something. It needs to err on the side of too much rather than not enough. I would be extremely frustrated only capturing the very end of events. So much so that I would rather be without it entirely.

There is new armoured cable called EV ultra. This is 4mm or 6mm (or larger) 3 core armoured cable which has a cat 5/6 cable as a fourth core. This cable would allow you to run power and ethernet in one cable as well as manage the router settings remotely by logging in to the router from the far end. This would also give you power - allowing a local light etc (you could put a waterproof consumer unit in the enclosure

With any CCTV i recommend having it local instead of cloud hosted

What size bit did you use to make the pilot hole for the spiral type. Please.

sometimes we need to put ourselves in a jam to be humble

really inspiring story

Thankyou for your video we have also done simular, having a vision then putting the action in youtube.com/@theirishhomestead?si=fCqjNxn3JMpd5Imm

OP YOU KNOW IM NOT ALWAYS SO NEGATIVE BUT I'd be doubtful ,if I bought anything with that design , and it's purpose for outdoor use . The strap ,for one ,in an area that gets a diverse range of weather ... how long before that strap is eaten by the outdoor elements , No not creatures . How durable is the camera to the elements ... water ingress, uv breaking down the plastic The fact it also is subscription based , From just looking at design and what the website advertising . And seeing the quality of image caught , that something is quite iffy about this product . Dont believe me , check out dash cam comparison videos . They all claim (anything with cameras) they hype them up ... These look and most likely are disposable products , meaning theyll last possibly 6 months to 2 yrs . The image shown during daylight , when camera pans ,is comparable to a security camera that cost 20 uk pounds . Dont defend by saying its change in amount of light entering lense etc .. It is exactly that , one slight snag , its using software to adjust picture , which is what is causing it to delay process. And like chap says 200 quid , nah , dont convince me to buy ....might light a ciggarette with that note and get better payback. What with seeing device ,its image quality , its design and fixing points ...my gained knowledge of cameras . Plus I owned a £20 wireless security camera , no sub , with night vision and same pivot design .. and the quality was same as ... don't get ripped off .. Talking of wether we get ripped off as a consumer ... check out the story of Amstrad , how he made ,money by selling cheap versions of quality audio units , with same size shells and lots and lots of empty room !!! Or how about Tesla cars and all their faults in panels matching etc. And lack of faith in companies producing quality product for money paid ... and the largest alarm bell you could hear ringing , its a subscription service ... Dont be mugs folks , check out reviews on dash cans , I say this as they have same type of features . . To be fair ,you could get wired cameras made for outdoors , with a 300ft cable . You have power outdoors you could tap into. You could use cheap water line pvc to house cables ,to protect from rodents ,and wires would ve easy to extend ... Plus ,youd be talking 40 quid compared to 200 ,plus a sub .

I dont use reolink But I am a commercial cctv installer. You may find in the menu a pre and post alarm buffer. Say 5 second pre alarm footage and 10 second post alarm. You may also be able to adjust the detection area size and sensitivity. trial and error setting that part up to be reliable.

RSSI = Received Signal Strength Indication. The LESS negative the value, the stronger the signal. What you perhaps have not thought about is how many other users are sharing the mast at the same time. This will also impact your perception of speed.

Great video the last clip of the wildlife seems to be a badger

I totally get it that it is fun. And in your situation the perfect setup. I had the most fun when one day I noticed a recording from a very disappointed heron who was not able to reach the fish in my fish pond. It was wondering around for 20 minutes or so, trying to figure out a weak spot in the defense system that I have put up against the herons, but it could not find one, so the bird left without catching a fish. 😁

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I use a Spypoint flex s at my off grid place. So far so good. Dual sim pre installed, reasonably priced subscription levels. Have you met a wood wasp yet??

So, getting and reviewing free-stuff? Well well, nice to see you escaping the rat-race (OH NO! you seem to have brought the rat race attitude with you)

Reading the manual the camera does not use motion detection in the video but it is using a PIR sensor. The PIR sensor should be pointed to the interest area. Nice looking camera with the solar panel. It's not clear to me if the ONVIF protocol is supported to stream the video/audio to a NVR system.

I've a Reolink Trackmix 4g in the forest for a while. Catching wildlife regularly! Here is from 10 days ago: czcams.com/video/vK8UUy6y6o4/video.html

The Reo link solar powered CCTV cameras are awesome; we have five in our woods and use the Vodafone smart Sim at £4 a month for unlimited data on the camera¡ 🎉

Yes always good fun - I use my trail camera to monitor the wildlife here in rural Norfolk. Just battery operated but works fine.

I think with the cable so long the solar panel is meant to be mounted on a branch, not a trunk. Then again, it's probably an easy thing to replace with something longer if need be. I bet if you put some food in the camera's view you'd have more success. Good video regardless 👍

It's beyond belief that you didn't realise to just use the one long strap for camera and solar panel ! As shown on Reolinks own website (I looked after watching this banal vacuous video!) It was obvious whilst watching the video to both me and my 9yr old Son ! How do you cope day to day!?!?!? 😂 I'm sure Reolink will be non to pleased that you specifically criticised the strap design problem which isn't a problem ! #user error ! 😂

You are so painful to watch !! Dumb as a box of frogs !!

So glad to see this after our LoRa chat last video. This is a great solution.

Looks great. Reminds me of a minion with it's rotating eye. 😁

Interesting. I've got cameras but they're powered and monitored by Blue Iris software on a windows PC. Rock solid for security purposes. But for your purposes, the Reolink looks great. I suppose the questions are what the data cost is arising from having to use a SIM, whether the system can trace back a few seconds ahead of motion detection (so you can see the animal arrive), and what happens when the card gets full (does it record over the oldest recordings?). Thanks for sharing.

Be careful, that's a power pole, if it discharges to earth it will destroy your camera. Re catching the animals - you should be able to adjust the trigger delay for recording in the software somewhere.

Could you put both the solar panel and the camera on the long strap?

Maybe put the new channel link in your description perhaps?

When you were saying caravan the last few videos I was thinking a camper van not what we call a mobile home in the US. When I buy some land in the next year or 2, I do not know if I want to buy a caravan as I build my more permanent home or build a small 10 x 10 house and just expand on it over the years.

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Franchement, j’appelle ça, une véritable beauté Hydro électrique😂😂😂 l’amour de ma vie. Son nom de famille c’est Pelton.😂😂 En tout cas bravo pour l’installation mais j’ai survolé un peu rapidement. J’ai pas vu le régulateur qui recharge la batterie avec l’onduleur derrière.?????