My house sits in the middle of 3.4 wooded acres, but it's also smack in the middle of town. 12 other properties border mine. I've caught people cutting through my property to get from one side of town to the other, which didn't really bother me too much until now. Over the weekend, my cameras caught someone exiting the woods with a duffel bag and walking down my 500-foot driveway at 1:30 in the morning. I followed the footprints in the snow to the base of a tree where there was a pile of discarded hangers, price tags and some clothing from a local clothing store - obviously shoplifted merchandise. Closer examination of the footprints showed that the person circled several trees before finding the loot. So someone else had left the stash there for them to get. Why someone would want to take the time to strip the clothes from the hangers, and tags from the clothes, then stuff them in a bag in the dark, in the middle of a snowstorm, is beyond me. Anyhow, I'd like to deter this behavior.
I'm thinking about putting low voltage lights around the border as a deterrent. Maybe uplights on trees, or motion activated floods on trees. I don't know yet. The issue is that to get power from my house to the property edges would mean a few several-hundred-foot runs of cable from the transformer out to the edges. Is this even possible or practial? I get that I'd have to get a pretty big transformer to compensate for the voltage drop. I don't think it would make sense to trench 110V out and mount the transformers remotely. Solar isn't an option because of the heavy tree cover.
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Hi All,
i have jhst installed a new light fixture in the junction box in my apartment and it seems it is just a bit too heavy for this this - it doesn’t way a lot but it seems that the junction box is held into the ceiling with clips of some kind that aren’t very strong.
What do you think best way of securing this would be?
thanks in advance.Read More