Okay. Didn't have time to write up the post on the glass waterer and get all the photos together today but hopefully tomorrow.
In the meantime...
I'm hoping someone who is handier with electricity than I am can help me figure out what this diagram means and how to make one. It is the "electric pole shocker" used to deter hawks. Here is a site that shows it and the diagram. http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/HawksOwls.asp
I am very dense when it comes to electricity. Not dense, really, just uneducated so I don't understand how it works. I wish I could just buy one of these already made.
Here's from the site:
Just from reading the description and use I'm going to say the piece of tubing on top of the pole has two wires running acrossed it, one is a hot wire and one is a ground wire. The tubing is probably PVC or another non-condutor and when the bird lands on the pole they complete the circuit by touching both wires at the same time, resulting in a zap to their feed.
It would be really easy to make these. You could do it two different ways. Both just require a piece of PVC pipe, 2 pieces of insulated wire long enough to reach from the top of the pole to your electric fence unit, and one method requires some short screws.
For the left side method drill 2 holes about half an inch from each end of the pvc pipe. How far apart they are would depend on your pipe, for a piece of 1 inch PVC I would drill them about 3/4 an inch apart. Take the wire and strip the end of it of the insulation, if you have a 6 inch pipe then strip 5 inches. Thread each wire through the holes on one end, run them along the top of the pipe and feed them through the holes on the other end back into the pipe and bend them back under the pipe so the wire stays tight and the wires don't touch.
For the right side method put two small screws into each end of the pipe about 1/2 inch from the end and about 3/4 inch apart. You could also use a wooden dowel for this method. Strip the insulation from the wire and twist it around the screws on one end, then run it to the screws on the other end and twist it around those. So looking down at the pipe the screws/wires look like this.
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Then mount the pipe (either method) to the top of a pole, you could just screw it on the pole using a couple longer screws, make sure they don't touch the wires, run the wires down to your electric fence unit and turn it on.
That made it much easier to understand.
