[beelce]

Nice Scourge! Simple and effective...Do you use the test mode or do you go for minutes?

 

[scourge999]

I used the one minute setting. It was for a talking grim reaper that welcomed people into the house.

 

[dynoflyer]

Beelce, that's really a great how-to, thanks! Even I could follow those directions.

Just call me "sparky" ;-)

 

[ubzest]

Ya know I think these are great, and I even bought a few motion sencers over the last 2 years.But I haven used any of it yet. what do you guys have that uses this electric set-up. now that I think of it ,all I have is lights and everything elce is batteries. waaa.
I love the how -to, with all the pics.

 

[beelce]

Ubzest, I use them to control whole scenes. My haunt is a haunted woods walk thru...people walk down a dark trail and pow, out of nowhere a crazy scene pops on for a full 7 seconds. Then everything goes off an leaves them standing there in the dark with their mouths open. When someone activates a sensor everything in that scene turns on. Usually includes things like- LEDs, spot lights, background lights, fans, motors...anything that you can plug into the sensor strip will turn on and off for you.

 

[beelce]

Buckaneerbabe...here is a wireless sensor that is much easier to hide.

I used a 25' extension cord with a receiver receptacle in the box on the end. With this system you can use multiple sensors up to 100' away from the power strip. The sensors are battery powered, so you can put them anywhere.
Only the red side of the receptacle will turn on and off by sensor (the white side is always on), but you can control up to 1800 watts.
All parts from Home Depot

 

[buckaneerbabe]

Thanks Beelce!! I like that one even better. Just perfect for my needs. I know where I'm going for lunch now.

 

[Lilly]

wow great how to beelce
I may even take a stab at this one day

 

[beelce]

Thanks Lilly...they can help you run your haunt

 

[Eldritch_Horror]

Very impressive How-to! I may have to employ this technique myself. Thanks for posting it!

 

[Daphne]

This is wonderful, thanks for posting it! The pictures made it so easy to follow.

I have to make a couple of these. At this point, I have no idea what I will use them for but I absolutely must have 2!

 

[TNBrad]

I used mine in the yard on one side of the driveway facing the house and place the light and motion triggered props on the house and stairs; so as the TOTs would pass between, they got a start from the strobe lights I had on the motion triggered power cord and again from the props on the other side of the drive way (so they got it from both sides) LOL

Halloween haunt 07 :: 10 trigger part 2 picture by TNBrad - Photobucket
Not sure why my pictures never show up.

 

[Toktorill]

Great idea, might have to use one of those some day when I'm short of volunteers!

 

[Abunai]

Has anyone figured out a way to hack the motion sensor so that the on-time is less than 7 seconds (or whatever the "test" time is for a particular sensor?"

I'd like a one second on-time.

 

[lowdwnrob]

Great how to. Dont really need one right now but I want to make it anyway.

 

[hpropman]

Abunai you can use the Parallax motion sensor and a microcontroller or a haunt controller (prop 1, etc) to get any length of time you require. My website has four how-to pages on motion detection. The link is below.

 

[OpenTrackRacer]

Nicely done!

I'm building something similar to what scourge999 posted for my motion activated tree shaker and air cannon. I bought two cheap security light for the motion sensors.

 

[vista]

PDF instructions

Hey Beelce, Do you have this in PDF form so we could D/L it to have on our computers local?
It's a great job either way and I'm going to see if I can save this under my favs so I can come back and find it...

Vista

 

[beelce]

Sorry vista....no PDF at this point...I'll have to look into to that....hope the how-to helps you....thanks for checking in...

 

[vista]

If you don't have pdf making software let me know.. I can probably pull it together into one doc...