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Does that work reliably for owls? Just wondering. I imagine a lot of 'false positives' isn't much of a problem, so as long as it reliably triggers whenever an owl passes by, it should be fine.
I hope so . The OWLS are sitting on a branch. The cheap commercial wildtraps detect them .
There is continueous dimmed light shinning on them.
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Your code doesn't show a delay between tripping the shutter and triggering the flash.
I tried that and you can easily see that flash triggers after the shutter is closed
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What kind of flash unit do you use, and how have you wired it to the Arduino? Do you use some kind of remote trigger? Please show a schematic and some photos of the setup, and post details on the flash unit as well as any trigger system used.
I' using a speedlite 430EXII and/or speedlite 580EXII.
The flashes are triggerd with an external hotshoe that is connected to my controll box .The flashes are isolated with optocouplers. The schematic is a part of a dropcontroller that I made in the past.(I made the schematic and pcb but the program was not written by myself).
this is the complete setup
The white cable is connected to the PC.
The first cable at the bottom left is the PIR sensor.
The cable with the blue connector goes to the camera.
The cable on the bottom right goes to the flash.
Apperently I can't upload video's
and these are some real results but without PIR
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