Power protection update
The protection
method shown on the left
here has served me well during these deer deterrent experiments, but I
found out the hard way that it's not good enough to work with a wall
wart.
Water has a way of sometimes
working its way into places you don't want it, and that's bad news for
one of these power transformers.
Lately I've been using medium
sized plastic bags to keep our power connections dry. Make sure the
opening faces downward so that any water will be forced to break the
law of gravity to get up in there. The plastic bag pictured on the
right is positioned under the board where the motor is mounted for some
added protection.