will it work? light bar on pig stand

[imyomama]

this is my own experience ... and what i do on my place .. so take it for what it is , i'm sure plenty of people will argue it ... i've tried it all and settled on this solution.

first ... i shoot the crap out of hogs and they learn .. trust me ! i used to have a motion activated light .. it worked at first ... now it does not .. especially the older pigs ... young ones may get fooled once ... after that , it's a new ball game ...

i've tried white light , red light , green light ... it seems like they didn't like red ... green and white are ok .

what i do now ... i installed a deep cycle battery , a 100 watt solar panel and a charge controller ... i have a 10 watt green and a 20 watt white led light mounted 12 foot high on a pole ...

they don't care about either , and the light is setup to stay on all night (as soon as solar panel does not provide voltage to controller) but in winter , the white light seems to draw too much for the little sun light hours , and overcast weather ... in summer time with long daylight and lots of sun the 20 watt does fine running all night long ...

I typically gun hunt , shooting from 80 yards when i sneak up on them , or 180 yards when shooting off the porch ... the 10 watt green is marginal for shooting 180 , but fine with day optic from 80 ...

if you setup for bow only , either would be fine .

that's my 2c ... you may get away with turning it on when you are ready to shoot , but trust me you will educate them and it will quit working ... always on work on my place .. i pretty much shoot one every time i go .. (i also have a driveway alarm setup to wake me up when they show...)

below is what it looks like with the 20 watt ... green 10 watt is a little under half of that

[imyomama]

and it works ! i won't bore you with dozens of pics .. but i do have them ...here is from last week .

[Mr. Whiskers]

I've killed 7 pigs under a green motion activated light in the last 5 days but that's gun hunting. I did shoot them all at 30 yards or so. They haven't learned yet.

[skeeter]

I plan on turning the light on when I get in the stand and leave it on. wasn't planning on using a motion sensor.

[gonehuntin68]

You can try and make one for yourself but you will probably never make one as good as our Exterminator II feeder light for the price. I know for a fact I couldn't make a single unit for the price we sell it for. I've helped a couple other members make their own feeder lights but in the end they end up telling me they would have been better off just buying ours and I know a couple did buy ours after spending several hundred trying to make their own. Our Light runs all night every night even if you have several days in a row of cloudy weather. The cost is $389.99 but we do give TBH members 10% off or if you go to one of the Texas Trophy hunter shows this year in August you can pick one up for $330 as we always offer discounts at the trade shows.
If you want full details on the light, please click on the link I gave above and it will take you to the light and our website or you can always call me at 916-276-1385. All the pics below are of our Exterminator II feeder light and there are no other light sources used. In the last picture you can see how we mount the light to a 2" fence post. You get everything you see in the pic except for the 2" fence post. It does come with all the hardware for mounting to the fence post.

[gonehuntin68]

I should have also answered the original question. "Will a 36 LED light bar work?" Sure it will but your going to probably scare a lot of pigs with it unless you set it up to run all night every night. If you do that it will cost you way more then our feeder light. Just the battery alone to run the 36 LED light bar for 6 hours will probably be well over $100 for a decent one.

[Mike D]

will it work? light bar on pig stand

A common misconception about LED lighting is that "they don't draw much". Ohms law is what it is. It doesn't change.

Typically a 36" light bar will have 34-36" leds at 3 watts each per row.

So, assuming a single row bar at 36 x 3watts each, then your current draw will be 108 watts. 108 watts/12.6 v = 8.57 amps.

So take your battery capacity in amp hours and divide by 8.57 amps and that's roughly how much run time you will get.

If it's a double row light then your watts and amps will double and cut your run time at least in half.

For example I looked at a deep cycle battery this weekend that had a 101 amp hour capacity.

Using that info you would get roughly 11 hours of run time and half that if it's a double row bar.

Also keep in mind your solar panel will have to be able to replace the same amount of energy that is depleted. On a 4 hour sit for example you would deplete 432 watts of energy. So you would need a 100 watt panel for a minimum of 4+ hours of full charging, a 50 watt panel with a minimum of 8+ hours of charging.

My whole point of all that description is that I don't think you need a 36" bar. A 12" bar would be more than sufficient in light output and would require a much smaller solar panel.


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[imyomama]

I've killed 7 pigs under a green motion activated light in the last 5 days but that's gun hunting. I did shoot them all at 30 yards or so. They haven't learned yet.

must be nice to have dumb pigs ... this is a video from 2011 i think 270lb sow ... the little ones stayed under the light , the big one , would move back to the edge of the shadows every time the light came on ... it's just matter of time till they associate activated light with death... there are some activated light the go brighter over a minute or so , so you can't notice it as much , they are on low all the time , then progressively get brighter ... i would expect that to work better...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJYckvdFbbU

[Drycreek3189]

must be nice to have dumb pigs ... this is a video from 2011 i think 270lb sow ... the little ones stayed under the light , the big one , would move back to the edge of the shadows every time the light came on ... it's just matter of time till they associate activated light with death... there are some activated light the go brighter over a minute or so , so you can't notice it as much , they are on low all the time , then progressively get brighter ... i would expect that to work better...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJYckvdFbbU

This is right. I have had the security lights from Northern on two feeders for three years now. ( still working ) In the last few months we have seen this happen a few times. The light will come on but the pig is out of the light. He must still be in the detection range, but won't come into the light. Thankfully, they ain't wise to NV and they don't get a second chance ! Now, young sows with pigs will come into the light, but the old solitary boars don't like it and they have had a while to " get used to it ".

[AJ the TP Guru]

I've used a similar set-up, and it worked well. These days I use a combination of lights - a bowlight attached to my stabilizer hole which is pressure activated, and a 60 led light near the feeder which is infra-red activated. The combo works better than what I had before, and is simpler to maintain in good working order.