Jerry In Maine
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We have a wind power generator here at work. It's a 3 blade model and spins very fast.
We're on the coast and have loads of seagulls. They generally do a good job of avoiding the blades but once in a while one gets too close. We've had two blades broken ion the last few weeks and you can guess what happens to the gull.
Curious if anyone knew of a method similar to a PIR detector that might detect the gulls in order to sound a loud horn when they got too close.
Problems I can see are that it would have to detect a rather small body at perhaps 50' or so in order to "intercept" the gulls in time for them to change course. It would also be looking toward the sky and thus migh be overcome by direct sunlight.
We're on the coast and have loads of seagulls. They generally do a good job of avoiding the blades but once in a while one gets too close. We've had two blades broken ion the last few weeks and you can guess what happens to the gull.
Curious if anyone knew of a method similar to a PIR detector that might detect the gulls in order to sound a loud horn when they got too close.
Problems I can see are that it would have to detect a rather small body at perhaps 50' or so in order to "intercept" the gulls in time for them to change course. It would also be looking toward the sky and thus migh be overcome by direct sunlight.